Manager, Software Engineering (fraud)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Canada, United States · Remote · Checkout

Manager for a Fraud Platform team focused on building the next generation of Affirm's Fraud Decisioning System. The role involves leading a team of engineers, developing technical roadmaps, recruiting, and fostering a strong engineering culture. While the team builds fraud defense solutions, the core function is engineering management within a fintech domain, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Product, Analytics, Machine Learning, Compliance, Operations and other engineering managers to develop a long term technical roadmap that meets stakeholder needs
  2. Recruit and hire talented engineers
  3. Hold a high technical bar with a bias towards longevity and simplicity via specification and architecture review
  4. Coach, develop, retain, and provide thoughtful feedback to team members
  5. Establish Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success

Skills

Required

  • 2-3+ years managing high performing engineering teams
  • solid engineering fundamentals and real world experience building scalable distributed backend services
  • track record of successful cross functional collaboration especially with product managers, business partners, and engineering counterparts

Nice to have

  • Past experience in Fraud/Risk/Financial systems is a plus
  • Past experience building platform solutions is a plus