Remote Senior Partner Engineer

Description:

• Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, allowing consumers to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest.
• The Senior Partner Engineer will provide day-to-day support for technical questions from external partner stakeholders.
• This role involves leading the development of project plans by driving solution designs, timeline forecasting, task breakdown, and testing strategy.
• The engineer will develop integration support material and documentation for new product rollouts and feature updates.
• Collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership is essential to build out partnership roadmaps.
• The engineer will serve as a subject matter expert (SME) and point of escalation for internal and external teams facing technical challenges.
• Maintaining clear, professional, and proactive communication with external partners is crucial to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables while fostering strong, long-term relationships.
• The role requires working cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure seamless coordination, share insights, and drive projects to successful completion while maintaining open and constructive communication.
• Providing feedback on integration strategy, potential product enhancements, and operational workflows is also part of the responsibilities.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 4+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Partner Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, Solutions Architecture, or any other customer-facing engineering role.
• The ability to read and understand multiple programming languages is required.
• Experience with long-term project planning and execution is necessary.
• Candidates should have experience with Ecommerce technologies and data models.
• A thorough understanding of JSON, HTML, REST API, and Webhook technologies is essential.
• Candidates must have a thorough understanding of integrating UX elements with backend services, frameworks, and third-party developer APIs.
• Experience with observability tools and applications is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong project management skills, and the capability to influence internal and external stakeholders to stay on schedule are necessary.
• A passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better is highly valued.

Benefits:

• Affirm offers comprehensive health care coverage, covering all premiums for all levels of coverage for employees and their dependents.
• The company provides Flexible Spending Wallets, which include generous stipends for spending on technology, food, various lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
• Employees enjoy competitive vacation and holiday schedules, allowing them to take time off to rest and recharge.
• An employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) is available, enabling employees to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.
• Affirm is a remote-first company, allowing employees to work almost anywhere within the country of employment, with some roles requiring occasional office presence.