Software Engineering Manager, Affirm
Trust & Safety
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location. + An employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location. + An employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- The Trust and Safety team is growing and we are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager with a track record of leading high performing teams
- Top candidates should have a long-term system health mindset, with the understanding that ensuring the proper function of these systems is your primary responsibility
- 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 front end frameworks like React or AngularJs
- 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
- The Trust and Safety Experience team owns all customer facing components of the Trust & Safety Platform and supports the user interfaces for Affirm Products like Card, Savings, Prequal, Checkout, User Portal and Repayment flows across various geographies
- This team is responsible for building the User Experiences for sign in / signup, authentication, fraud detection & mitigation flows and creating backend APIs to deliver the Identity and Fraud decisions for users who come through various platforms (Web, iOS, Android) and entry channels
- You will lead a fast paced team to build optimizations through experimentation and improve the E2E conversion
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Analytics teams to implement business critical features enabling new user experiences across the entire stack (mobile, web, backend)
- 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.
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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