The opportunity
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
What you'll do
Set the technical strategy for your team, and help your engineers tie it: together with critical, business-impacting projects in our underwriting system
Act as a force multiplier through your definition and advocacy of technical: solutions and operational processes.
Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by partnering: with product management, design, analytics, and risk to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
Develop talent by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
On-Call Rotation: There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.
Bachelor's in a technical field with 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years managing engineers.
What they're looking for
- A background in financial services, specifically in credit / lending.
- Proficiency in machine learning with experience in areas including tree-based: models, transformers, deep learning, and agentic ML.
- Strong engineering skills and the ability to provide hands-on technical: leadership while working with our code and architecture.
- You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low-level language: idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
