Manager of Software Engineering, Affirm
Trust & Safety Foundations
$200-275k
+ Employee stock purchase plan. Salary varies depending on location of applicant
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-275k
+ Employee stock purchase plan. Salary varies depending on location of applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years managing high performing engineering teams
- 5+ years in software development roles with proficiency in backend programming languages like Kotlin & Python
- Proven track record of delivering production-grade software in an agile environment
- Strong technical foundation in backend software development
- Hands-on experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining enterprise-scale products
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and people-management skills
- Experience integrating and working with external vendors is a plus, as is prior work in fintech or the broader financial industry
- Demonstrated ability to grow, lead, and support high-performing engineering teams
- A humble, team-first leader who actively contributes to a strong team culture and invests in the development of peers
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a key area within the Trust & Safety Foundations team. This area is responsible for building and evolving backend systems that integrate with a variety of external vendors - including credit reporting agencies, address data providers, and more
- The platform and services owned by this team are mission-critical and underpins several business-essential workflows across the company. With multiple internal client teams relying on it, this role requires strong cross-functional collaboration with Architecture, Analytics, Financial Partnerships, and a wide range of engineering teams
- Our work enables the delivery of honest, transparent financial products that empower consumers to make confident purchasing decisions. As we scale to become a cornerstone of both e-commerce and offline retail, this team serves as a foundational pillar, playing a central role in driving that vision forward. It's an exciting opportunity to lead a high-impact group at the heart of our mission
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers, supporting their growth and performance through regular feedback, career development, and coaching
- Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business
- Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success
- Remove roadblocks, manage team priorities, and maintain high team productivity and morale
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes and tools
- 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
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
- Own availability and performance of your team’s systems
- Ensure technical excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and by fostering best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Occasionally contribute to hands-on technical work when needed, such as architecture discussions, prototyping, or mentoring on complex technical issues
- Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution
- Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing. Coach, develop, retain, and provide build individual growth plans for the team members and contribute to hiring and onboarding efforts to grow a diverse, high-performing team
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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