Manager, Software Engineering, Fullstack (Repayment UX Engineering)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Lead and grow a well-balanced team of engineers – setting clear expectations, giving direct feedback, and developing each engineer toward their next level.
• - Own the team’s technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, tying it to initiatives that build customer trust and move Affirm’s business.
• - Empower your tech lead and engineers to hold the design and quality bar, supporting them hands-on throughout technical design and cross-functional alignment.
• - Own the availability, reliability, and performance of consumer-critical systems – on-call, incident response, and reducing operational toil.
• - Keep the team shipping in small increments, breaking large programs into sprint-sized milestones with clear, accountable owners.
• - Partner across Product, Design, and Analytics, and other Engineering teams, building trust and taking part in cross-functional efforts.
• - Guide the team to multiply their output through focus and leverage, including agentic AI.
• - Drive hiring and onboarding to grow a diverse, high-performing team, and foster a culture of ownership, quality, and transparency.
• - Participate in on-call rotation as a requirement.

Required Skills

• - 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams.
• - Proven experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity.
• - Track record of managing performance directly – setting clear expectations, giving candid feedback, and developing engineers toward results and growth.
• - Technical judgment required to guide architecture, quality, and reliability decisions.
• - Experience leading significant technical initiatives end-to-end, ideally decoupling or re-platforming consumer-facing systems within clear time constraints.
• - Familiarity with modern full-stack development – declarative UI frameworks like React or React Native, and a backend-for-frontend behind them.
• - Calm, decisive presence through change and ambiguity – building alignment, resolving tensions, and leading others through complex decisions.
• - Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with global cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• - Learning & Development programs
• - Parental benefit
• - Employee Resource & Community Groups
• - Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• - 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