Staff Software Engineering

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Engineer to contribute to Developer Productivity, with a focus on Test Platform Engineering. Our team’s flagship platforms provide lightweight test frameworks for every layer, synthetic identities, test data seeding, endpoint mocking, and overall testing infrastructure. These tools enable Affirm Engineering Teams to perform automated, deterministic testing with consistency across locations. Additionally, we support our partner teams in conducting exploratory testing, allowing us to collaboratively evolve our ways of working.

Our goal is to create a workplace where teams, composed of partners from engineering, product, and design backgrounds, can focus on creativity and problem-solving, empowered by simplified, repeatable, and automated testing processes.

In this role, you will actively collaborate on the roadmap, design technical solutions, and drive cross-team initiatives. You will work closely with the Engineering Director and the team to enhance quality standards and processes while representing the team in broader organizational efforts.

Affirm is growing fast and we want you to enable us to scale our products to 10x and beyond through building world-class systems that enable Affirm in its mission to provide honest financial products that improve lives.

We are only just getting started! Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. It’s going to be an amazing ride!

What You'll Do

• Partner with stakeholders to align on roadmaps, strategy, and vision for the Test Platform Engineering team.
• Lead technical decisions, initiatives, and roadmaps within the Developer Productivity team and beyond.
• Collaborate with other technical leads, management, and stakeholders across the organization to design and implement solutions that extend beyond the team’s scope and require cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead and mentor engineers, helping them to grow and succeed. Provide guidance to engineers across the organization to improve their code quality and testing skills.
• Work closely with teammates from engineering, product, and design backgrounds to craft best-in-class systems and processes around test frameworks and infrastructure, with the ultimate goal of enabling them to build the best financial products.
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

What We Look For

• 7+ …