Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Affirm's Merchant Risk Intelligence & Platform team as a highly motivated engineering manager! Lead, mentor, and grow a team responsible for the backbone of merchant risk processes. Collaborate closely with machine learning engineers and product managers to design and build best-in-class systems. Own system availability, reliability, and performance. Partner with diverse engineering teams and engage with senior management. This role requires 7+ years of software engineering experience with leadership responsibilities and 1+ year as an engineering manager. Affirm offers competitive benefits including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, flexible spending stipends, competitive time off, and an employee stock purchase plan. The position is remote-first, allowing flexibility to work from almost anywhere in the country.

Requirements

• 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer role with leadership responsibilities and 1+ years as an engineering manager
• Drive to change consumer financial services for the better
• Prior experience growing and managing a high performing engineering team
• Fluency in back end development
• Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow an engineering team responsible for the backbone of our Merchant Risk processes, collaborating closely with the Machine Learning part of the team
• Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing
• Own availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems
• Partner with product managers to design and build best-in-class systems and processes to reconcile and report
• Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who build solutions throughout the entire lifecycle of a Merchant at Affirm
• Build relationships and engage with senior management in the organization

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of basic accounting principles and GAAP accounting is a plus

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Equity rewards
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• 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