Software Engineering Manager, Affirm
Infrastructure Platform
£140-180k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£140-180k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, operational expertise, and a deep understanding of infrastructure and reliability engineering
- You will balance execution excellence with people-focused leadership, ensuring that teams deliver business value while maintaining system health and resiliency
- Strong sense of ownership: Accountable for system health, operational excellence, and engineering quality
- Proven experience leading teams in platform engineering, infrastructure, or site reliability (SRE)
- Deep expertise in reliability engineering, incident response, and operational tooling
- Strong decision-making skills, balancing technical depth with strategic business impact
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Able to align cross-functional teams across Infrastructure and Product Engineering
- Experience defining and executing technical strategies for cloud computing, observability, CI/CD, and developer tooling
- Hands-on technical experience in infrastructure operations, with working knowledge of: Cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent), Kubernetes & container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation), Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar), CI/CD pipelines, automation, and software delivery best practices
- Passion for reliability, automation, and scaling world-class infrastructure
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly motivated Software Engineering Manager to lead a Platform Engineering team, focused on Operational Excellence. This role is ideal for a leader passionate about building and maintaining resilient, scalable, and efficient infrastructure while fostering a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture
- Our teams ensure Affirm’s infrastructure, cloud compute, storage, observability, and developer productivity systems are reliable, performant, and optimized for scale. You’ll play a key role in leading operational excellence, incident response, infrastructure automation, and system reliability across Affirm’s globally distributed platform
- Lead & Grow the Team: Manage, mentor, and develop engineers in Platform Engineering & SRE, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and automation
- Drive Operational Excellence: Improve incident response, on-call processes, and post-mortems to enhance system reliability and availability
- Scale & Automate Infrastructure: Advance self-healing automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and CI/CD workflows to optimize efficiency and performance
- Enhance Observability & Performance: Improve monitoring, logging, and telemetry to proactively detect and resolve system issues
- Collaborate & Align Strategy: Work with Infrastructure, DevProd, and SRE teams to optimize multi-region deployments, cloud cost efficiency, and service scalability
- Foster Innovation & Inclusion: Promote best practices in reliability engineering, encourage automation-first approaches, and support team growth and internal mobility
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
-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 HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
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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