Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)
Remote Canada
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 Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.
We're looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Orchestration Services team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your team to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward-looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.
What you’ll do
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Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
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Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
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Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
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Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and product managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
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Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
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Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
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Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Batch and Streaming teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
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Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
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Develop a multi year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
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Benefits/Perks100% subsidized medical 100% subsidized medical coverage Competitive benefits Competitive vacation Competitive vacation and holiday schedules Dental Dental and vision Employee stock purchase plan Equity Equity rewards ESPP Flexible Spending Flexible Spending Wallets Generous stipends Health care coverage Inclusive interview experience Inclusive interview experience for all Monthly stipends Monthly stipends for health Remote-first company Subsidized medical coverage Tech spending Time off Transparent pay structure Vision Wellness Wellness and tech spending
Tasks- Collaborate on projects
- Design
- Design and implement frameworks
- Lead engineering teams
- Lead technical decisions
- Managing
- Mentor engineers
- Planning
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Experience10 years
EducationBachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering Equivalent practical experience Related technical field Technical field
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