Director, Software Engineering (Wallets and Platforms)

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. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
Affirm's vision is to deliver honest financial products that improve lives. In the US now, Affirm now covers half of all ecommerce volume and has access to nearly all buyers . Our mission, as part of the Merchant, Partner and Platform Engineering (MPPE) team, is to grow Affirm's revenue by helping Merchants and Partners acquire and retain valued customers with industry leading, innovative Buy Now Pay Later POS checkout experiences. We are just getting started. Come be a part of a team shaping the future!
In this role as a Director , Software Engineering you will be responsible for building strategic partnerships with our key Merchants such as Shopify, Stripe, Fiserv and BigCommerce . You will be developing, best in industry, Affirm's wallet and platform integrations with our partners that allow user experiences that enable frictionless checkout conversion and scaling integration of our partners into new global markets. The ideal candidate will be passionate about fostering a culture of innovation, unafraid to roll up their sleeves with engineers to achieve technical excellence with a proven track record of delivering results.
Key Responsibilities

• Set the vision and execute on technology roadmap - Collaborate with Product, Commercial and Foundational engineering teams to envision and execute on ambitious ideas and build practical technology capabilities needed to realize the vision. Drive clarity from ambiguity to aid faster decisions grounded on principles.
• Develop and measure Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to improve KPIs for platform resilience, developer experience and time to market.
• Participate in quarterly planning and work closely with peers and teams to remove impediments, articulate tradeoffs and garner resources
• Build the best team - Grow globally minded teams by attracting and hiring diverse talent and build a strong leadership bench. Provide tailored coaching, mentoring for Engineering managers and inspire a team of full stack engineers
• Demonstrate humility to admit mistakes and grow from failures and build a culture of continuous improvement

Required skills

• Demonstrated experience in architecting, building and scaling platforms and distributed systems that require high availability, resilience and meeting stringent SLO objectives is required.
• Experience with developing and maintaining external facing APIs and developer portals is required
• Experience with streaming APIs and data analytics is preferred
• Experience in building and leading geographically dispersed teams in a leadership capacity with a minimum of 5+ years being a manager of managers is required
• Experience with Fintech, Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) marketing and personalization capabilities is desirable.

Location - Remote U.S.
Grade - USA33
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company ! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.
All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account.
[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act , the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here .
If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways-not just candidates who check all the boxes.
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