Manager, Software Engineering (card Experiences)

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

Manager, Software Engineering at Affirm leading a full-stack team to build customer experiences for Affirm Card, focusing on React Native and backend services. Responsibilities include team leadership, coaching, roadmap ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and maintaining high engineering standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and coach a team of engineers building customer experiences across React Native and supporting backend services.
  2. Own delivery for your team’s roadmap. Drive planning, execution, and clear stakeholder communication.
  3. Partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to define goals, success metrics, and priorities for Card Experience.
  4. Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence, including system design, code quality, testing strategy, observability, and operational readiness.
  5. Build healthy team processes and a strong feedback culture that supports sustained execution and team health.

Skills

Required

  • Software engineering management
  • React Native
  • Full-stack development
  • System design
  • Code quality
  • Testing strategy
  • Observability
  • Operational readiness
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Technical leadership

Nice to have

  • Consumer-facing software delivery
  • Driving execution through ambiguity
  • Leading teams transitioning to React Native

What the JD emphasized

  • customer-facing features
  • engineering fundamentals
  • system design
  • code quality
  • testing strategy
  • observability
  • operational readiness
  • React Native
  • Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and quality decisions
  • Hands-on technical leadership