About the role

Senior Partner Engineer acting as technical lead for Commercial and Product Partnership teams at Affirm. Responsibilities include solution design, project planning, and fostering engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

Provide day to day support for technical questions from external partner stakeholders
Lead the development of project plans by driving solution designs, timeline forecasting, task break-down, and testing strategy
Develop integration support material and documentation for new products rollouts and feature updates
Collaborate with Product + Eng leadership to build out partnership roadmaps
Serves as an overarching SME and point of escalation for internal and external teams facing technical challenges
Maintain clear, professional, and proactive communication with external partners to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables, while fostering strong, long-term relationships
Work cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure seamless coordination, share insights, and drive projects to successful completion while maintaining open and constructive communication
Provide feedback on integration strategy, potential product enhancements, and operational workflows

4+ years experience in a Solutions Engineering, Partner Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, Solutions Architecture, or any other customer-facing engineering role
Ability to read and understand multiple programming languages
Experience with long-term project planning and execution
Experience with Ecommerce technologies and data models
Thorough understanding of JSON, HTML, REST API, and Webhook technologies
Thorough understanding of the following concepts: integrating UX elements w/ backend services, frameworks, and 3rd party developer APIs
Experience with observability tools and applications
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong project management skills, capable of influencing internal and external stakeholders to stay on schedule
Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better.

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount