Manager, Software Engineering – Reliability Platform

🕒 June 25

🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $204k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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

• Build and lead a high performance product engineering team with a focus on building a culture of innovation, accountability, reliability and execution. • Leverage AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate platform development, operational automation, and engineering productivity • Translate ambiguous operational and organizational challenges into clear technical requirements, execution plans, and measurable outcomes • Develop scalable reliability, risk management, and operational governance capabilities for Affirm’s production systems using observability tooling, automation, and AI • Build foundational systems that help engineers understand service ownership, dependencies, and operational topology across Affirm’s infrastructure and applications • Drive alignment across Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, and product engineering teams to define requirements, prioritize investments, and deliver long-term technical roadmap outcomes • Drive execution and delivery for critical cross-functional reliability initiatives with high organizational visibility

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend or full stack engineering, with 2+ years of engineering leadership experience • Experience working within or alongside Production Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams • Expertise with observability tools, and building software or managing programs that drive engineering culture and reliability practices • Strong operational judgment and ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution in ambiguous problem spaces • Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, reliability products, or operational automation systems at scale • Demonstrated ability to balance rapid iteration and experimentation with operational rigor and long-term maintainability • Strong programming background (e.g., Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar) • Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, with a track record of aligning stakeholders, driving execution, and influencing engineering practices across teams • 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