Senior Manager of Software Engineering, Affirm
Cloud Cost Management
CA$206-256k
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$206-256k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent leadership, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs
- Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery
- Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems
- Expertise in scaling technologies like Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, and Kafka, in cloud providers like AWS
- Capable of mentorship, cross-functional program execution, and individual contribution
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset
- Deep experience in cloud infrastructure and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure team’s mission is to deliver customer impact by partnering with engineers to build reliable and fast financial products. We own the platforms, tools, and services that power every customer transaction and facilitate every production change.
- We enable faster development for engineers, higher reliability to our customers, and lower costs to the business. We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineering leader for our growing Cloud Cost Management team
- Develop frameworks, systems, and tools to create a culture of ownership and accountability for infrastructure costs
- Collaborate with Finance and Engineering leadership to define and meet ambitious financial targets, ensuring Affirm's scalable and efficient growth
- Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Infrastructure team, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing our multi-million dollar annual spend
- Drive business and engineering metrics while promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity
- Lead a team of engineers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture
- Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and product managers on tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects
- Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners
- Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands
- Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the 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.
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
-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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