Senior Partner Engineer

About the Role

In this role as a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership across Commercial and Product Partnership teams, supporting large cross-functional programs. You will represent Affirm’s engineering team and technologies to partners, such as Shopify and Stripe, while helping drive technical + business strategy. This role entails operational support for ad hoc partner requests, collaborating with engineering teams on solution design, and managing the execution of long-term initiatives. The ideal candidate will be passionate about fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation, unafraid to roll up their sleeves with engineers with a proven track record of delivering results.

What You'll Do

• Develop detailed project plans, including: solution design, timeline estimation, task break-down, and testing plan.
• Provide day to day support for technical questions from external partner stakeholders
• Develop integration support material and documentation for new products, rollouts and features
• Serves as an overarching SME and point of escalation for internal and external teams facing technical challenges
• Make recommendations on integration strategy, platform evolution, infrastructure, and tooling selection to optimize user experience
• Explore the business intersection between our commercial strategy and technical Partnership capabilities
• Contribute to the internal development of pertinent external documentation to strengthen the overall partnership experience

What We Look For

• 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 Ecommerce technologies and data models
• Experience and understanding of JSON, HTML, REST API, and Webhook technologies
• Familiarity with the following concepts: integrating UX elements w/ backend services, frameworks, and 3rd party developer APIs
• Experience with alerting and monitoring 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
• Nice to have: experience and understanding of various Partner Types (e.g. Ecommerce Platforms, Payment Processors, Payment Gateways, and Wallets)