Manager, Software Engineering

Summary

Join Affirm's Cloud Compute team as a Technical Lead for European-based infrastructure engineers, shaping strategy, designing frameworks, and guiding team growth.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of technical and organizational leadership, preferably in the infrastructure or SRE domain
• Experience in a SaaS company delivery services 24/7
• A deep knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration technologies
• Experience with cloud-native traffic management, networking, and security concepts at scale (Istio, Cilium, eBPF)
• Experience in designing and creating cloud-native CD systems with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar technologies
• Solid CS fundamentals and practical coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services with Python, Go, C++, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud providers
• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Istio, and Nginx, but we are open to exploring new technologies
• Have an enthusiastic vision for leading technical teams and building their careers
• You prefer leveraging, enhancing, and contributing to Open Source solutions rather than starting from scratch
• Experience collaborating with teams across time zones

Responsibilities

• Lead a European-based team of infrastructure engineers - guiding their technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Infrastructure team
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across the platform engineering and product engineering organizations
• Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools to handle new Affirm products and business needs that can securely scale across millions of users and their transactions
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team, promoting best practices in design, coding, and testing

Benefits

• Base Pay Grade - P
• Equity Grade - 5
• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave