Manager, Software Engineering

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.

The Trust and Safety Experience team owns all customer facing components of the Trust & Safety Platform and supports the user interfaces for Affirm Products like Card, Savings, Prequal, Checkout, User Portal and Repayment flows across various geographies. This team is responsible for building the User Experiences for sign in / signup, authentication, fraud detection & mitigation flows and creating backend APIs to deliver the Identity and Fraud decisions for users who come through various platforms (Web, iOS, Android) and entry channels. 

The Trust and Safety team is growing and we are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager with a track record of leading high performing teams. You will lead a fast paced team to build optimizations through experimentation and improve the E2E conversion. Top candidates should have a long-term system health mindset, with the understanding that ensuring the proper function of these systems is your primary responsibility.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Analytics teams to implement business critical features enabling new user experiences across the entire stack (mobile, web, backend).
• Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business
• Coach, develop, retain, and provide build individual growth plan for the team members
• Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success
• Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
• Own availability and performance of your team’s systems.
• Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution
• Actively participate in making their team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
• Participate in hiring engineers and growing talent

What We Look For

• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 3+ years managing high performing engineering teams
• 7+ years in software development roles with proficiency in backend programming languages like Python and front end frameworks like React or AngularJs
• Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining enterprise scale …