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Manager, Software Engineering (Loans Lifecycle)

Affirm· Financial Platforms - Engineering
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Remote$230k - $290kfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Lead technical strategy and operations for a software engineering team focused on a highly regulated ledger platform supporting financial interactions, audits, and partner reporting.

Responsibilities

  • You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
  • You will 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.
  • You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
  • You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
  • You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
  • You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
  • 2+ years of experience managing a software team
  • extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
  • experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical
  • understanding of managing a high performance team, growing the team, coaching engineers, and aligning stakeholders
  • strong verbal and written communication skills for global collaboration
  • equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Skills

Required:Backend system design and developmentTeam leadership and managementDistributed systems and reliability
Nice to have:Financial systems / ledgering / treasury domain

Benefits

  • Health coverage at no cost: 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents
  • Spending stipends for tech setup and health/wellness options
  • Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • inclusive interview process with accommodations for candidates with disabilities
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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