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
Define and drive the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity at Affirm.
Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and tie it to: critical, business-impacting projects.
Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership,: collaboration, and technical excellence.
Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Developer: Environments priorities with broader product, platform, and reliability goals.
Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of the systems: powering Affirm’s ephemeral developer environments used in both development and CI contexts.
Improve environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to: enhance developer velocity and reliability.
What they're looking for
- Drive measurable improvements to the developer journey (e.g., startup time,: success rate, performance, debuggability, resource utilization).
- Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational: playbooks to minimize downtime and developer impact.
- Collaborate with CI/CD and Test Platform partners to tighten feedback loops: and ensure environments integrate cleanly with build/test workflows.
- Work closely across engineering to ensure smooth adoption of Developer: Environments tooling and best practices.
