Software Engineering Manager, Affirm
Identity Decisioning
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location + Employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location + Employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- 3+ years managing high performing engineering teams
- 7+ years in software development roles with proficiency in backend programming languages like Python and Kotlin
- Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining enterprise scale products
- Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS
- Experience with data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes and Airflow
- Prior experience growing and managing a high performing engineering team
- Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
- Prior experience in a fintech or in the financial industry in general a plus
- A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Manager, Software Engineer to lead the Identity Decisioning team, responsible for building backend systems that validates consumer identity in all of Affirm’s products by satisfying regulatory protocols like KYC.
- The team partners closely with Product, Compliance, Auth, Fraud, and other engineering teams to deliver honest and transparent financial products that help consumers make their purchasing decisions.
- As we scale the company to be a cornerstone of all e-commerce and offline retail, it is an exciting time to join the team which sits at the core of this mission
- Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
- Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business
- Coach, develop, retain, and provide build individual growth plan for the team members
- Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success
- Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing
- Own availability and performance of your team’s systems
- Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution
- Actively participate in making their team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
- Participate in hiring engineers and growing talent
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.
Boasting over 21M consumers and 337,000+ 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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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