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 Merchant Risk Intelligence & Platform team's mission is to deliver a robust merchant approval and risk monitoring platform for the timely, transparent, and consistent assessment of merchant risk throughout the merchant lifecycle. This team works in close partnership with our product managers and risk teams to effectively manage merchants throughout their lifecycle @ Affirm and build automated risk tools in order to minimize losses post-onboarding. Affirm's stated goal is to build the largest network as measured by the number of users and merchants; a strong merchant risk capability is key to growing the merchant side of the network equation. We are looking for a highly motivated manager to help build this team. Come join us! What you'll do Lead, mentor, and grow an engineering team responsible for the backbone of our Merchant Risk processes, collaborating closely with the Machine Learning part of the team Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing. Own availability, reliability, and performance of your team's systems. Partner with product managers to design and build best-in-class systems and processes to reconcile and report. Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who build solutions throughout the entire lifecycle of a Merchant at Affirm Build relationships and engage with senior management in the organization What we look for 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer role with leadership responsibilities and 1+ years as an engineering manager. Drive to change consumer financial services for the better. Prior experience growing and managing a high performing engineering team. Fluency in back end development. Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products. Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills. Knowledge of basic accounting principles and GAAP accounting is a plus.

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.