Affirm Verified

Fintech, Financial Services, E-commerce

Senior Sales Engineer

RemoteRemoteFull TimeSeniorCA$136,350–CA$203,850 /yrPosted 23 days ago

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Required skills

Sales Engineering
Solution Architecture
Technical Sales
Pre-sales
API Integrations
SaaS Platforms
Enterprise Architectures
Checkout Processes
Payment Systems
Ecomm

Nice to have

Product Management
Sales Operations
Go-to-market Efficiency
Voice of the Customer
Feature Prioritization
Reusable Assets

Role summary

Affirm is seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to join their Merchant Engineering team. This role combines technical expertise, communication, and problem-solving to help enterprise merchants design and implement solutions on the Affirm platform. Responsibilities include leading pre-sale technical discovery, architecting solutions, serving as a trusted technical advisor, influencing product development, and supporting sales efforts. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in Sales Engineering or similar roles, 3+ years in payments/fintech, and strong technical acumen in API integrations, SaaS, and enterprise architectures, particularly in checkout and payment systems. A BA/BS degree or equivalent experience is required.

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.

As a Senior Sales Engineer, you’ll combine your technical aptitude, exceptional communication skills, and creative problem solving to help enterprise merchants design and implement scalable, reliable solutions on the Affirm platform. You’ll support pre-sale activities by leading technical discovery, analyzing requirements, and identifying well-architected solutions, while playing a key role in winning deals and driving the business forward.

Senior Sales Engineers are part of the Merchant Engineering team and work closely with Affirm’s Sales, Engineering, and Product teams. You will work cross-functionally to develop merchant solutions, serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, identify product enhancements, and help build internal processes that scale.

What You'll Do

Technical Expertise: Serve as the subject matter expert on Affirm’s integration solutions, demonstrating deep understanding of merchant checkout, customer journeys, and the competitive landscape. Making the most compelling technical case for Affirm to merchants. Consistently demonstrate your technical expertise and knowledge of Affirm’s product suite through developing and articulating compelling technical narratives that map Affirm’s capabilities to merchant systems, increasing solution scope and long-term platform adoption.

Solution Development: Architect elegant solutions addressing specific customer challenges, including complex integrations and customizations. As necessary, think outside-the-box to design and architect end-to-end solutions that address complex merchant challenges, including advanced integrations and customizations. Evaluate tradeoffs across merchant constraints, platform capabilities, and non-functional requirements, and design tailored solutions aligned with each merchant’s business and technical priorities.

Merchant Trust: You will be responsible for building the trust of your technical counterparts, both internally and externally, while also fostering long term relationships with our Enterprise & Key merchants.

Partner Success: Partner with sales and partner engineering teams to drive opportunities for our largest customers, leading solution strategy and laying groundwork for successful implementations.

Product Influence: Act as the "voice of the customer," providing actionable insights to influence product development and feature prioritization to product management at Affirm.

Knowledge Scaling: Create and share best practices, reusable assets, and training materials to enhance go-to-market efficiency.

Sales Support: Provide technical & architectural input into sales planning and forecasting, identify technical risks and constraints early, and collaborate with Sales Operations to design scalable, repeatable technical engagement models. Work with Sales operations to build and refine scalable business processes.

Market Engagement: Develop pre-sales support material and documentation for new products and features.

Demo Development: Build and present custom demos as required.

What We Look For

Passion and drive to change consumer checkouts & payments for the better

BA/BS degree in business/technology, or equivalent technical account management experience

4+ years of experience in 4+ years in Sales Engineering, Solution Architecture, Partner Engineering, Solutions Engineering, technical sales or pre-sales roles, focusing on solution architecture and best practices

3+ years of current experience in the payments, fintech, or closely related industry

Strong technical acumen in API integrations, SaaS platforms, and enterprise architectures, with particular emphasis on Checkout processes and payment systems

Proven ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously, work independently and drive projects to completion with minimum guidance and high attention to detail

Extensive experience with Ecomm, In-Store, Telesales etc. checkout & payment solutions

Solid understanding of financial infrastructure industry trends and emerging technologies

Keen technical mind comfortable writing scripts in at least one programming language and also AI tooling/usage familiarity

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

Executive presence and strong relationship-building skills

Passion for customer success and dedication to championing the customer voice

Experience architecting solutions & technically positioning them with prospects for e-commerce platforms, payment gateways, in-store point of sale systems etc.

Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time

Base Pay Grade - JEquity Grade - 4

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, which includes the annual base pay and the sales incentive target.

CAN or GBR) base pay range per year: $136,350 - $203,850

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.LI-Remote

Remote-first with flexibility built inAffirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.

Benefits designed for youOur benefits reflect our commitment to care, transparency, and flexibility. Here are a few highlights:

Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.

Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.

Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.

Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.

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