Manager, Software Engineering, Backend (repayments International)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Poland, Spain · Remote · Financial Platforms - Engineering

Manager of Software Engineering for Affirm's Repayments International team, focusing on building and leading a new European-based team to develop systems for international loan repayment experiences. The role involves leading, mentoring, and growing an engineering team, owning system reliability, and partnering with product managers and other engineering teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, mentor, and grow an engineering team responsible for the repayment processes in our international expansion journey.
  2. Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
  3. Own availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.
  4. Partner with product managers to design and build best-in-class systems and processes for collections.
  5. Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who build solutions throughout the entire lifecycle of a loans repayment at Affirm

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer role with leadership responsibilities
  • 1+ years as an engineering manager
  • Fluency in back end development
  • Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products
  • Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of basic loans lifecycle and delinquency assessment

What the JD emphasized

  • international expansion
  • consumer scale products
  • high performing engineering team