The opportunity
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
What you'll do
Set the technical strategy for your team, and help your engineers tie it: together with critical, business-impacting projects across repayment, collections, recovery, and loss mitigation.
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.
Bachelor's in a technical field with 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years managing engineers.
A background in financial services, specifically in credit / lending, with: hands-on experience in post-origination modeling — collections, repayment, recovery, loss mitigation, early-warning or behavioural risk, or similar.
What they're looking for
- 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.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.
