engineering
Posted Jun 22Manager, Software Engineering (Account Management)
at Affirm
CanadaRemote
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of engineering managers and software engineers, supporting their growth and performance through regular feedback, career development, and coaching •
- Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business •
- Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success •
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes and tools •
- Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed •
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects •
- Own availability and performance of your team’s systems •
- Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution •
- Coach, develop, retain, and build individual growth plans for both engineering managers and individual contributors within the team •
- Drive hiring and onboarding efforts to grow a diverse, high-performing team What we look for •
Requirements
- Experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity. •
- Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale with technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes •
- Experience developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue. •
- Demonstrated ability to grow, lead, and support high-performing engineering teams •
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
Experience
- Typically 6-8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers (or equivalent leadership experience). •
Benefits
- A humble, team-first leader who actively contributes to a strong team culture and invests in the development of peers Pay Grade - P Equity Grade - 7
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location,
- Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and
- benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
- In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
- CAN base pay range per year: $181,000 - $241,000 #LI-Remote
- benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- 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
Additional details
- 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.
- Account Management is a full stack team that owns the customer-facing self-service channels that customers depend on to manage their auth, identity, and security related state — operationally critical surfaces that directly affect customer experience, support efficiency, and fraud/risk outcomes.
- Working in tight partnership with our internal decisioning, checkout, risk, security, and analytics teams, this role requires a strong cross-functional leader that can effectively manage competing priorities while providing rigorous, end-to-end, technical stewardship. What you’ll do •
- Occasionally contribute to hands-on technical work when needed, such as architecture discussions or mentoring on complex technical issues •
- Technical judgement to guide architecture and quality decisions, and to hold a high bar on engineering practices. •
- Hands-on technical leadership: Expectation to stay close to the code and architecture, including doing design/code reviews, pairing when useful, and contributing directly as needed to unblock delivery and maintain a high engineering bar. •
- Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery •
- Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
- A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
- We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview