Manager, Software Engineering

Summary

Join Affirm's Trust & Safety Foundations team as a Manager, Software Engineering, leading a team responsible for building and evolving backend systems that integrate with various external vendors. This mission-critical platform underpins essential workflows across the company, requiring strong cross-functional collaboration. You will lead and manage a team of software engineers, create a long-term technical roadmap, establish OKRs, and drive continuous improvement in engineering processes. The role involves collaborating with various teams throughout the product development lifecycle and ensuring technical excellence. This is a high-impact opportunity to lead a group central to Affirm's mission of reinventing credit.

Requirements

• 2+ years managing high performing engineering teams
• 5+ years in software development roles with proficiency in backend programming languages like Kotlin & Python
• Proven track record of delivering production-grade software in an agile environment
• Strong technical foundation in backend software development
• Hands-on experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining enterprise-scale products
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and people-management skills
• Demonstrated ability to grow, lead, and support high-performing engineering teams
• A humble, team-first leader who actively contributes to a strong team culture and invests in the development of peers

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, supporting their growth and performance through regular feedback, career development, and coaching
• Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business
• Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success
• Remove roadblocks, manage team priorities, and maintain high team productivity and morale
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes and tools
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
• Own availability and performance of your team’s systems
• Ensure technical excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and by fostering best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
• Occasionally contribute to hands-on technical work when needed, such as architecture discussions, prototyping, or mentoring on complex technical issues
• Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution
• Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing. Coach, develop, retain, and provide build individual growth plans for the team members and contribute to hiring and onboarding efforts to grow a diverse, high-performing team

Preferred Qualifications

Experience integrating and working with external vendors is a plus, as is prior work in fintech or the broader financial industry

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount