Affirm
Senior
Be the technical face of Affirm to partners like Shopify and Stripe, translating integration challenges into solutions
Affirm needs a senior Partner Solutions Engineer to own technical leadership across commercial and product partnership programs, acting as the engineering-facing SME for external partners' BNPL checkout integrations. This is a customer-facing engineering role blending solution design, integration troubleshooting, and cross-team project execution — remote from Canada.
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What this interview tests
- Partner/solutions engineering for ecommerce and payments integrations
- REST API, JSON, webhook troubleshooting and technical fluency across languages
- Project planning: solution design, timeline estimation, task breakdown, testing plans
- Acting as SME and escalation point for both internal and external technical stakeholders
- Cross-functional influence across Commercial, Product, and Engineering teams
- Alerting/monitoring tooling awareness
Common question themes
Walk me through diagnosing a broken partner integration involving a webhook or REST API contract
How do you build and communicate a project plan for a multi-team partner integration rollout
Tell me about a time you were the technical point of escalation between an external partner and internal engineering
How would you explain a complex integration issue to a non-technical partner stakeholder under time pressure
What's your experience with ecommerce platforms, payment processors, gateways, or wallets specifically
How do you decide when to build custom tooling vs. recommend an existing platform capability to a partner