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 initiatives that build customer trust and move Affirm’s business.
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 keep the team shipping in small increments, breaking large programs: into sprint-sized milestones with clear, accountable owners.
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 will guide the team to multiply their output through focus and leverage, including agentic AI.
- You will drive hiring and onboarding to grow a diverse, high-performing team,: and foster a culture of ownership, quality, and transparency.
- On-Call Rotation: There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.
- You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years: managing and growing engineering teams.
