Manager, Software Engineering, Backend (Transactional Comms)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Lead, mentor, and grow an engineering team responsible for designing and developing the communication platform at Affirm for all channels (sms, email, push, physical)
• - 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 for Comms Platform
• - Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who use Comms platform to keep in touch with customers throughout the entire lifecycle of a loan at Affirm
• - Build relationships and engage with senior management in the organization
• - On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.

Required Skills

• - 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

Benefits

• - 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)
• - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• - Learning & Development programs
• - Parental leave
• - Employee Resource & Community Groups
• - ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount