Manager, Software Engineering

$225,000 - $275,000/Yr

Affirm

Full-time - Manager

Remote

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

The Engineering Manager for the Trust and Safety Experience team at Affirm will lead a high-performing team responsible for developing user experiences across various platforms, including mobile and web. This role focuses on building and optimizing systems for user authentication, fraud detection, and overall system performance, while fostering a strong engineering culture and ensuring inclusivity within the team.

Responsibilities

• 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 individual growth plans for 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 the 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
• Prior experience in a fintech or in the financial industry is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a remote-first work environment.
• A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team.

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.
• Generous stipends for spending on technology, food, various lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• Employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.