Manager, Software Engineering

We build honest financial products to improve user’s lives. We are continuously working on making our product available to more consumers, ensuring each interaction exceeds their expectations. We pride ourselves on our culture across engineering of writing blameless postmortems as well as writing detailed tech specs and gathering feedback before large changes to systems.

We build honest financial products to improve user’s lives. We are continuously working on making our product available to more consumers, ensuring each interaction exceeds their expectations. We pride ourselves on our culture across engineering of writing blameless postmortems as well as writing detailed tech specs and gathering feedback before large changes to systems.

We are looking for a highly motivated Engineering Manager with a track record of leading high performing engineering teams. You will own our mission-critical Disbursements systems, which are responsible for ensuring our merchant and investor partners are paid on time and correctly. Each day, these highly-complex systems move over $100 million to hundreds of thousands of Affirm's partners! 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.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow an engineering team responsible for payment routing to our hundreds of thousands of merchant and investor partners.

• Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.

• Own availability and performance of your team’s systems.

• Partner with product managers to design and build clean APIs which can serve current and future use cases.

• Work with your team to develop beautiful internal API documentation and test environments to enable rapid financial product development

• Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who build financial products and perform financial transactions at the company.

• Collaborate with critical stakeholders across the company, including Accounting, Capital Markets, Treasury, and more.

• Build relationships and engage with management across the USA and Europe.

 

What We Look For

• 1+ years managing high performing engineering teams

• 7+ years in software engineering roles

• Prior experience growing and managing a high performing engineering team.

• Fluency in back end development.

• Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining enterprise scale products.

• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.

• Prior experience in a fintech or in the financial industry in general a plus

Pay Grade - USA 31

Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year:

Min: $190,000

Mid: $237,500

Max: $284,900

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year:

Min: $171,000

Mid: $213,000

Max: $256,500

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