Senior Software Engineer II, Frontend

With our growing customer base and our expansion into new markets and use cases, we have more to build than ever at Affinity as we execute on our vision to put relationship intelligence at every professional's fingertips.

As a Senior Software Engineer II, Frontend you’ll have the opportunity to drive our product forward, refining and evolving the features our customers love while pushing new directions. You’ll shape key frontend components, including design systems, state management patterns, and overall architecture. Affinity’s user experiences are data-dense and highly interactive, offering a challenging and rewarding role with significant impact.

In this role, you will:

• Work with a cross-functional group leading the frontend engineering projects from design to delivery, ensuring successful execution and outcomes.
• Scope and stage work into well-defined milestones, avoiding monolithic deliverables and ensuring timely progress.
• Identify and proactively address technical debt, maintaining the long-term health and performance of systems.
• Mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and improving team practices.
• Drive operational excellence, influencing decisions that enhance the scalability and maintainability of our frontend systems.

Qualifications:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

• You have ~7+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on frontend development, and at least 2+ years in a senior role leading team projects.
• You are an expert in React and TypeScript.
• You have experience with performance optimization techniques and tools to ensure fast load times and smooth interactions.
• You have expertise with frontend build tools and package managers (Eg. webpack, pnpm).
• You demonstrate strong ownership instincts, guiding the design, planning, and execution of large, complex projects.
• You have strong leadership abilities and experience mentoring other engineers and providing technical guidance.

Nice to have:

• You have a combination of startup and brand-name SaaS companies experience.
• You have experience writing server-side code leveraging modern OOP practices using Ruby, Rails and PostgreSQL.

Tech stack:

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. We’re leaning into event-driven architecture using Kafka. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes.

How we work:

Our culture is a key part of how we operate as well as our hiring process:

• We iterate quickly. As such, you must be comfortable embracing ambiguity, be able to cut through it, and deliver incremental value to our customers each sprint.
• We are candid, transparent, and speak our minds while simultaneously caring personally with each person we interact with. 
• We make data-driven decisions and make the best decision for the moment based on the information available.

Join us in enabling every professional on the planet to succeed by harnessing the power of their relationships.

If you’d want to learn more about our values click here.

What you’ll enjoy at Affinity:

• We live our values as playmakers, obsessed with learning, care personally about our colleagues and clients, are radically open-minded, and take pride in everything we do.
• Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days. We want our team to be happy and healthy :)
• We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program – after all, one of our core values is that we’re #obsessedwithlearning! 
• We support our employee’s overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment.
• Virtual team building and socials. Keeping people connected is essential.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job.  

A reasonable estimate of the current range is  $113,800 - $187,800 CAD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant.