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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.\nStaff 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nTechnical 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.\n\nSolution 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.\n\nMerchant 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. \n\nPartner Success: Partner with sales and partner engineering teams to drive opportunities for our largest customers, leading solution strategy and laying groundwork for successful implementations.\n\nProduct Influence: Act as the \"voice of the customer,\" providing actionable insights to influence product development and feature prioritization to product management at Affirm.\n\nKnowledge Scaling: Create and share best practices, reusable assets, and training materials to enhance go-to-market efficiency.\n\nSales 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.\n\nMarket Engagement: Develop pre-sales support material and documentation for new products and features.\n\nDemo Development: Build and present custom demos as required.\n\nWhat We Look For\nPassion and drive to change consumer checkouts & payments for the better\n\nBA/BS degree in business/technology, or equivalent technical account management experience\n\n4+ 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\n\n3+ years of current experience in the payments, fintech, or closely related industry\n\nStrong technical acumen in API integrations, SaaS platforms, and enterprise architectures, with particular emphasis on Checkout processes and payment systems\n\nProven ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously, work independently and drive projects to completion with minimum guidance and high attention to detail\n\nExtensive experience with Ecomm, In-Store, Telesales etc. checkout & payment solutions\n\nSolid understanding of financial infrastructure industry trends and emerging technologies\n\nKeen technical mind comfortable writing scripts in at least one programming language\n\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences\n\nExecutive presence and strong relationship-building skills\n\nPassion for customer success and dedication to championing the customer voice\n\nExperience architecting solutions & technically positioning them with prospects for e-commerce platforms, payment gateways, in-store point of sale systems etc. \n\nWillingness to travel up to 30% of the time\n\nBase Pay Grade - J\nEquity Grade - - \nCAN OTE pay range per year: $136,350 - $203,850\nLocation - Remote Canada\n This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.\nRemote-first with flexibility built in\n Affirm 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.\nBenefits designed for you \n Our benefits reflect our commitment to care, transparency, and flexibility. Here are a few highlights:\nHealth coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.\nSpending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.\nTime off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.\nOwn a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.\nWe’re committed to providing an inclusive interview process, including accommodations for candidates with disabilities. 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