Manager, Software Engineering (continuous Integration)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · United States · Remote · Infrastructure Platform Eng

Manager for Continuous Integration (CI) and Build Infrastructure team, focusing on reliability, scalability, and efficiency of development pipelines, automated testing, build orchestration, and deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the vision for continuous integration and developer productivity infrastructure.
  2. Lead and mentor a team of CI engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  3. Own the design, scalability, and reliability of build and pipelines across multiple services and platforms.
  4. Ensure fast, reliable feedback cycles for developers by optimizing build times, test coverage, and reporting.
  5. Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and best practices.

Skills

Required

  • Leading engineering teams in CI/CD, build systems, or developer productivity domains
  • Modern build/test automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Bazel)
  • Cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
  • Infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Programming (Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar)
  • Mentoring and growing high-performing teams

Nice to have

  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Ability to balance long-term vision with short-term impact
  • Strong communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • CI/CD
  • build systems
  • developer productivity