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 leadership role involves hiring top engineers, leading peak season planning, and collaborating with the broader engineering organization. Success requires a strong vision, attention to detail, and excellent communication skills. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including a generous base pay, equity, stipends, 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
• 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
• #LI-Remote
• Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment