Senior Director, Software Engineering

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Senior Director to develop world-class traffic management capabilities. You will set the vision for next-generation traffic management, capacity planning, and load testing. This role involves hiring top engineers, leading peak season planning, collaborating with the broader engineering organization, and participating in roadmap planning. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in traffic management, load testing, and capacity planning at scale, along with a proven track record of leading complex engineering projects. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including a high base pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Has been responsible for traffic management, load testing or capacity planning at an organization with hundreds of millions of users
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing traffic shaping, cluster management, and load shedding systems at scale
• Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated ability to successfully develop, hire and partner with principal software engineers
• Exceptional leader who can mentor and manage high potential engineers and leaders earlier in their career
• Detail oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day to day execution and delivery
• Strong communicator who effectively lays out their vision for their team, the broader engineering organization, senior executive and partners
• Excited about both our mission to deliver honest financial products and to do it by building a meritocracy

Responsibilities

• Set the vision for the next generation of traffic management, capacity planning and load testing capabilities and practices at Affirm
• Hire world-class engineers with a deep understanding of traffic management concepts such as load shedding, rate limiting, caching, etc
• Lead our annual peak season planning across the technology organization
• Support and partner with the broader engineering organization to understand the needs of, and then roll out, the capacity planning and load testing tools you develop
• Vigorously participate in our engineering-wide roadmap planning process

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company)
• 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
• Remote work