Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will lead the technical direction for the Auth Experiences team, focusing on enhancing web and mobile customer interactions while minimizing fraud. Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with frameworks like React or Vue are essential, as the engineer will be responsible for both frontend and backend development. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over eight years of experience who excel in collaborative environments and can navigate complex technical challenges. The team emphasizes quality and mentorship, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Joblaze insights

Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Affirm's careers page November 14, 2026.
This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Affirm: United States.
Starts above 10% of 63 comparable staff fullstack roles we track (median $200,000 across 30 companies).

Quick facts

Is the Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Auth Experiences) role remote?: Yes — Affirm lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?: Affirm lists CAD 181,000–CAD 241,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Auth Experiences) role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Vue.
What seniority level is this role?: Affirm targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Auth Experiences) role at Affirm.

From the original posting

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

The Auth Experiences team is looking for a passionate Staff Software Engineer to help set technical direction and build the next generation of web and mobile experiences for Affirm customers.

Auth Experiences owns key moments in Affirm’s checkout flow, allowing customers to access Affirm's services, while ensuring that fraud is kept to a minimum. Our systems power critical consumer journeys across thousands of merchants and multiple countries. We manage web and mobile experiences, building User Interfaces, as well as backend orchestration layers. We focus heavily on ensuring a great customer experience with high conversion and security. As a staff engineer, you will lead significant technical initiatives, drive the architecture and evolution of the product, and mentor the team to build highly reliable software.

What You'll Do

· You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
· You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
· You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
· You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
· You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
· You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

· You have 8+ years of experience of developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
· You are proficient in working with Javascript/Typescript.
· You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
· You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
· Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
· You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Base Pay Grade - P

Equity Grade - 7

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: CAD $181,000 - $241,000

Location - Remote Canada
This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.

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Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Auth Experiences)

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