Vice President, Software Engineering

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as an exceptional engineering leader to scale consumer products. You will set the technical vision and strategy, foster a culture of engineering excellence, champion an AI-first approach, and partner with the broader engineering organization. The role involves leading, growing, and hiring a high-performing team, setting operational rigor, and participating in roadmap planning. Success requires a strong vision, attention to detail, and effective communication. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including base pay, equity, stipends, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Has had primary responsibility for the development and operational management of an app with tens of millions of users
• Extensive experience developing amazing consumer experiences with AI/ML
• Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering strategies
• Demonstrated ability to successfully develop, hire and partner with principal software engineers
• Strong leader of leaders who has successfully developed hired and partnered with senior individual contributors, managers and directors
• 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 technical vision and strategy for how we build consumer products at Affirm
• Instill a culture of engineering excellence and high availability across all of your teams
• Champion the shift to an AI-first engineering approach - accelerating the adoption of GenAI across consumer product experiences and in the software development lifecycle
• Support and partner with the broader engineering organization to improve our consumer experiences
• Set a high standard for operational rigor on the team
• Understand the product and business goals and vigorously participate in our engineering-wide roadmap planning process
• Lead, grow, hire and inspire a high-performing engineering organization

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• 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
• 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