Director, Software Engineering

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · United States · Remote · Consumer Engineering

Director of Software Engineering to lead the Card Platform and Experiences team, focusing on setting vision, hiring engineers, and driving core engineering and business outcomes for card-related capabilities. The role involves balancing product expansion with platform investments and ensuring operational excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Set the vision for the Card Experiences and Platform team at Affirm. Hire world class full stack engineers to execute on that vision.
  2. Take ownership of our core engineering and business outcomes across our established verticals – Card experiences, Card services Platform and Card Loan platform.
  3. Work closely with product and business leadership to drive key efforts to build card related capabilities to grow and scale the business.
  4. Balance product expansion efforts with platform investments and scale our platform to handle high scale and a spectrum of eclectic use cases.
  5. Run a robust development lifecycle establishing a culture for operational excellence, while experimenting and failing fast.

Skills

Required

  • Software engineering leadership
  • Full stack team leadership
  • Backend team leadership
  • Product and business leadership collaboration
  • Platform investment and scaling
  • Operational excellence
  • Card domain knowledge

Nice to have

  • Credit/debit card experience
  • Accounting
  • Ledgering
  • Open/closed loops

What the JD emphasized

  • 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
  • Has Card related domain knowledge.