Software Engineering Manager (servicing Platform)

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

Engineering Manager for Affirm's Servicing Platform, responsible for building and operating credit reporting data pipelines and services. The role involves technical leadership, team management, and ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of data pipelines, with a focus on ETL architecture, data quality, and operational discipline within a regulated fintech environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. You’ll manage and grow a team of engineers, partner closely with Product, Compliance/Legal, and Analytics, and drive delivery through clear technical decision-making and operational discipline.
  2. You’ll develop a deep understanding of the system design of the ETL pipelines and the dependencies on upstream data sources.
  3. You’ll own key outcomes and metrics (accuracy, timeliness, completeness, and incident rates) and lead multi-quarter cross-org initiatives that measurably improve the pipeline’s quality and reliability.
  4. Own availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.
  5. Partner with product managers to design and build best-in-class systems and processes for collections.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer role with leadership responsibilities
  • 2+ years as an engineering manager
  • Fluency in back end system design
  • 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 credit reporting is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • exceptional technical rigor
  • dive deep into pipeline architecture, data quality and its sources, failure modes, and performance bottlenecks
  • strong design reviews, pragmatic standards, and mentorship
  • accuracy, timeliness, completeness, and incident rates
  • On-Call Rotation