Software Engineering Manager, Affirm
Testing Platform Engineering
€101-131k
+ ESPP
More information about location
POS installment loans
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POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€101-131k
+ ESPP
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly motivated Software Engineering Manager to contribute to Developer Productivity, with a focus on Test Platform Engineering
- The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a passion for driving impact, and the ability to foster growth in both individuals and teams
- Strong sense of ownership in everything we do, ensuring accountability and excellence in all aspects of our craft
- Proven experience managing software engineering teams, with a track record of delivering high-impact projects
- Ability to independently lead teams in solving open-ended, ambiguous problems with significant business or customer impact
- Strong decision-making skills, balancing technical depth with strategic vision and cross-functional collaboration
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to provide clarity, alignment, and context across all levels of the organization
- A focus on team development and health, with the ability to identify and create growth opportunities for team members
- Experience with defining and executing technical strategies, aligning with long-term organizational goals
- A commitment to operational excellence and system health, ensuring high-quality engineering practices and system reliability
- Previous Hands-On Experience in Key Technologies: Python, Kotlin, or React, with a focus on testing best practices. Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a plus
- Passion for Innovation and Quality: A commitment to driving technical innovation and improving product quality through scalable, automated testing solutions
What the job involves
- Our team’s flagship platforms provide lightweight test frameworks for every layer, synthetic identities, test data seeding, endpoint mocking, and overall testing infrastructure
- These tools enable Affirm Engineering Teams to perform automated, deterministic testing with consistency across locations
- Additionally, we support our partner teams in conducting exploratory testing, allowing us to collaboratively evolve our ways of working
- As a manager at Affirm, you will balance execution excellence with people-focused leadership, ensuring your team delivers business value while maintaining a supportive and inclusive culture
- Our goal is to create a workplace where teams, composed of partners from engineering, product, and design backgrounds, can focus on creativity and problem-solving, empowered by simplified, repeatable, and automated testing processes
- In this role, you will actively collaborate on the multi-year roadmap, design technical solutions for the hardest problems, and drive cross-team, cross-domain initiatives
- You will work closely with the Engineering Director and the team to enhance quality standards and processes, while representing the team in broader organizational efforts
- Affirm is growing fast and we want you to enable us to scale our products to 10x and beyond through building world-class systems which enable Affirm in its mission to provide honest financial products which improve lives
- Lead and Inspire: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of growth, psychological safety, and high performance
- Deliver Results: Drive execution on impactful projects, aligning with Affirm’s goals while ensuring technical excellence and system health
- Strategize and Plan: Define team roadmaps, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, stakeholder needs, and customer impact
- Enhance Collaboration: Build strong cross-functional relationships, resolving conflicts, and aligning team goals with broader organizational objectives
- Operational Excellence: Set and track goals, priorities, and metrics for your team, maintaining efficient processes and ensuring progress
- Foster Innovation: Encourage bold and creative problem-solving to achieve meaningful results and optimize for long-term success
- Advocate for Diversity and Inclusion: Promote an inclusive environment where team members feel empowered to bring their authentic selves and diverse perspectives are valued
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.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ 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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company values
- People Come First
- No Fine Print
- It's On Us
- Simpler is Better
- Push the Envelope
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Max Levchin
(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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