Manager, Software Engineering – Code to Environments

🕒 May 13

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• 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. • 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. • Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and self-service. • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting and improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and knowledge sharing.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience (or equivalent people leadership experience). • Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, developer productivity, or adjacent domains. • Strong technical background in backend/infrastructure systems (Python or Kotlin preferred, but not required) and the ability to guide architecture and execution. • Experience building and operating cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes) and using infrastructure-as-code practices. • Hands-on familiarity with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions). • Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening). • Strong communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teams. • Comfort balancing trade-offs between build vs. buy, speed vs. safety, and developer experience vs. operational constraints. • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount