Software Engineering Manager, Affirm
Reliability Platform
$204-290k
Salary dependent on location + ESPP
Buy-now-pay-later card for online and in-store
Be an early applicant
Buy-now-pay-later card for online and in-store
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-290k
Salary dependent on location + ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in backend or full stack engineering, with 2+ years of engineering leadership experience
- Experience working within or alongside Production Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams
- Expertise with observability tools, and building software or managing programs that drive engineering culture and reliability practices
- Strong operational judgment and ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution in ambiguous problem spaces
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, reliability products, or operational automation systems at scale
- Demonstrated ability to balance rapid iteration and experimentation with operational rigor and long-term maintainability
- Strong programming background (e.g., Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar)
- Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, with a track record of aligning stakeholders, driving execution, and influencing engineering practices across teams
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- We are seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead our Reliability Platform Engineering team
- This role is critical in ensuring the safety and reliability of our production systems through building products and capabilities that drive reliability practices at scale
- You will lead the development of systems and practices that allow engineers to understand, prioritize, and reduce systemic reliability risks across Affirm’s production environment
- This team is responsible for building foundational operational intelligence capabilities for Affirm
- This includes Affirm’s next-generation Reliability and Risk Management platform, which combines observability, AI, and operational workflows to help engineering teams proactively manage availability, resiliency, and operational excellence at scale
- This role sits at the intersection of Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering
- You will partner closely with Infrastructure and Product Engineering teams to define reliability standards, build scalable operational tooling, and drive adoption of engineering best practices across the company
- Build and lead a high performance product engineering team with a focus on building a culture of innovation, accountability, reliability and execution
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate platform development, operational automation, and engineering productivity
- Translate ambiguous operational and organizational challenges into clear technical requirements, execution plans, and measurable outcomes
- Develop scalable reliability, risk management, and operational governance capabilities for Affirm’s production systems using observability tooling, automation, and AI
- Build foundational systems that help engineers understand service ownership, dependencies, and operational topology across Affirm’s infrastructure and applications
- Drive alignment across Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, and product engineering teams to define requirements, prioritize investments, and deliver long-term technical roadmap outcomes
- Drive execution and delivery for critical cross-functional reliability initiatives with high organizational visibility
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Serving over 21 million consumers and over 300,000 merchants, the company offers flexible payback options ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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