Software Engineer, Frontend (Upfunnel Messaging)

The Upfunnel Messaging team at Affirm builds and maintains the platform for serving promotional messaging on partner merchant sites and affirm.js, our javascript library for merchant site integration. Our consumer artifacts are heavily used and represent the highest trafficked systems at Affirm; O(10k) merchants use it daily, with O(100M) requests every day.

The goal of the team is two-fold:

1. Improve the consumer experience by surfacing timely, relevant and personalized messaging during their shopping journey.
2. Reduce complexity of merchant integration and improve merchants’ underwriting and monitoring capabilities through high quality tooling and useful, delightful features.

We aim to turn Upfunnel Messaging into a turnkey service, and to empower merchants to optimize and customize all aspects of their messaging strategy, enabling them to grow their business through a data centric approach.

We are looking for a motivated Software Engineer to join us and help accomplish that mission. Given the scale at which our team operates, your work will be challenging, and will directly impact Affirm’s bottom line.

What you'll do

• Build, optimize, and scale Upfunnel messaging tooling and flows. This includes data visualization, analysis, reporting, and REST APIs for accessing and editing messaging information
• Enable experimentation and continuous improvement on the highest trafficked library at Affirm
• Prototype new ideas and iterate towards the best customer experience
• Consistently generate simple and elegant designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• Partner with Tech leads to drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
• Actively participate in making their team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.

What we look for

• 1-2 years previous engineering experience
• Prior experience building and maintaining complex front-end systems with cross-browser support
• Knowledge of modern front-end tech stack (we use Javascript, Typescript, React/Redux, ES6, Webpack, CSS3)
• Prior experience with Javascript testing frameworks (jest, webdriver.io, playwright)
• Prior experience with monitoring and alerting systems (sentry.io, rollbar, chronosphere, kibana)
• Experience with developer facing javascript SDKs is a plus
• Experience working cross-functionally with stakeholders from Product, Design and other Engineering teams
• Strong attention to detail with a demonstrated focus on engineering resilience
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication
• Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow, and to navigate the unknown

Base Pay Grade - J

Equity Grade - 4

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills. 

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

CAN base pay range per year: $102,000 - $142,000

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