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
You will lead and grow a well-balanced team of engineers: setting clear expectations, giving direct feedback, and developing each engineer toward their next level.
You will own the team’s technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, tying: it to major experience initiatives that build customer trust and move Affirm’s business, including large-scale redesigns and structural improvements to the consumer journey.
You will empower your tech lead and engineers to hold the design and quality: bar, supporting them hands-on throughout technical design and cross-functional alignment.
You will own the availability, reliability, and performance of: consumer-critical systems – on-call, incident response, and reducing operational toil.
You will drive alignment across multiple organizations and influence roadmaps: on partner experience and foundational teams.
You will partner across Product, Design, and Analytics, and other Engineering: teams, building trust and taking part in cross-functional efforts.
What they're looking for
- You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years: managing and growing engineering teams.
- You have proven experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity.
- You have the technical judgment required to guide architecture, quality, and: reliability decisions, with the instinct to empower senior engineers to make the calls rather than making them all yourself.
- You have experience leading significant technical initiatives end-to-end,: ideally decoupling or re-platforming consumer-facing systems within clear time constraints.
