Frontend Engineer II - Remote

About the Company

AFFIRM provides consumer payment solutions that allow people to pay over time with clear terms and no hidden fees. Its Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) organization develops privacy-aware consumer web experiences and measurement systems that support customer acquisition and business growth.

The MarTech team manages logged-out web experiences, experimentation, client-side tagging, marketing technology integrations, attribution, and measurement.

About the Role

AFFIRM is seeking a Software Engineer II to help build and improve high-traffic consumer web experiences while supporting experimentation, analytics instrumentation, and marketing integrations. Working with React, TypeScript, and shared component systems, you will develop reliable, well-tested web applications with a focus on performance, observability, and privacy requirements.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering while taking increasing ownership of systems that support consumer acquisition at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Break larger projects into manageable tasks, deliver work in phases, and collaborate with teammates to meet delivery timelines.
• Participate in product development with Product Management, Design, and Analytics teams, contributing ideas and communicating technical constraints.
• Help evaluate technical risks and trade-offs to support informed product and engineering decisions.
• Build and maintain consumer-facing web applications using React or other declarative UI frameworks and JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Develop clear, well-tested, extensible code that integrates effectively with multiple software components.
• Support web experimentation, client-side tagging, marketing technology integrations, attribution, and measurement systems.
• Contribute to testing, performance optimization, monitoring, and observability for web applications and related systems.
• Monitor operational metrics, escalate issues when necessary, and participate in on-call and system reliability efforts.
• Navigate large codebases, troubleshoot existing code, and provide constructive feedback through code reviews.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure development decisions account for privacy and measurement requirements.
• Participate in team growth and development activities, including the interview process.
• Seek feedback and continuously improve technical skills and engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

• At least 1.5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and shipping web applications using declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Ability to translate business scenarios and technical requirements into solutions involving multiple software components.
• Experience writing clear, maintainable, well-tested, and extensible code.
• Comfort working with large codebases, debugging code written by other engineers, and participating in code reviews.
• A proactive approach to professional development, including seeking feedback from teammates, managers, and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate effectively with a global engineering team.
• A bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred Technical Development Areas Opportunities to develop deeper expertise in Google Tag Manager, analytics and experimentation platforms, conversion tracking, and marketing APIs.
• Experience with testing, performance optimization, observability, and shared component systems is relevant to the role.
• Salary and Benefits Annual base salary for California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut: $165,000–$225,000.
• Annual base salary for all other U.S. states: $146,000–$206,000.
• New employees typically start at the beginning of the applicable pay range.
• Compensation depends on location, experience, and job-related skills.
• Total compensation may include equity rewards, monthly health, wellness, and technology spending stipends, and other benefits.
• Medical coverage is provided at no cost for employees and their dependents, including dental and vision coverage.
• Additional benefits include flexible time off, company holidays, monthly spending stipends, and an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) that allows employees to purchase AFFIRM stock at a discount.
• Work Arrangement AFFIRM operates as a remote-first company, and most roles can be performed remotely within the country of employment.
• Some positions may require occasional in-person work at an AFFIRM office.
• New hires are invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.
• Equal Opportunity and Accessibility AFFIRM is committed to providing an inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities.
• For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles, AFFIRM considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records as required by law.