Director, Software Engineering

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.

At Affirm, we’ve been very successful in our mission in delivering honest financial products that improve lives. The Affirm Card has played a significant part in helping Affirm deliver on that mission. As we look into the future, we expect our Affirm card to continue to play an outsized role. We are seeking to hire a Director to lead the Card Platform and Experiences team.

What You’ll Do

Set the vision for the Card Experiences and Platform team at Affirm. Hire world class full stack engineers to execute on that vision.

Take ownership of our core engineering and business outcomes across our established verticals – Card experiences, Card services Platform and Card Loan platform.

Work closely with product and business leadership to drive key efforts to build card related capabilities to grow and scale the business.

Balance product expansion efforts with platform investments and scale our platform to handle high scale and a spectrum of eclectic use cases.

Run a robust development lifecycle establishing a culture for operational excellence, while experimenting and failing fast.

Work with a wide variety of cross functional partners outside of engineering ranging from product, analytics, risk, servicing, legal and compliance.

What We Look For

15+ years of relevant experience software engineering

Experience leading full stack teams and backend teams.

Successful track record driving key outcomes that drive the company’s success

Comfortable partnering across disciplines and influencing across a wide variety of leaders.

Experience hiring and growing, and retaining talent

Has Card related domain knowledge. Great to have -if you've worked on credit/debit card/card related areas including accounting, ledgering, open/closed loops, and more.

Base Pay Grade - T

Equity Grade - 18

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