- Manager, Software Engineering/Identity Decisioning
- Affirm in Palo Alto, California, United States
- jobs
- 1 week ago
jobs description
Manager, Software Engineering (Identity Decisioning)
Join to apply for the Manager, Software Engineering (Identity Decisioning) role at Affirm.
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 interest.
We are looking for a Manager, Software Engineer to lead the Identity Decisioning team, responsible for building backend systems that validate consumer identity across all Affirm products, complying with regulatory protocols like KYC. The team collaborates closely with Product, Compliance, Auth, Fraud, and other engineering teams to deliver transparent financial products that assist consumers in their purchasing decisions. As we expand to be a key player in e-commerce and retail, this is an exciting opportunity to join a core part of our mission.
What You’ll Do
• Collaborate across teams during the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks and trade-offs.
• Create a long-term technical roadmap to support our growing business.
• Coach, develop, retain, and create individual growth plans for team members.
• Establish OKRs and critical metrics to guide the engineering team and measure success.
• Mentor engineers to improve their design, code quality, and testing skills.
• Own the availability and performance of your team’s systems.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution.
• Promote an inclusive environment for all backgrounds.
• Build relationships across engineering and other departments for project design, implementation, rollout, and maintenance.
• Participate in hiring and talent development.
What We Look For
• Equivalent practical experience or a related Bachelor's degree.
• 3+ years managing high-performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years in software development, proficient in backend languages like Python and Kotlin.
• Experience in architecting, launching, and maintaining enterprise-scale products.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS.
• Knowledge of data frameworks like Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Airflow.
• Experience growing and managing engineering teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in fintech or finance is a plus.
• A humble team player committed to peer development.
#JLjbffr