Senior Partner Engineer (Partnership Engineering)

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, 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

• 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

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 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