Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services) - Remote

Overview

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.

In Short

• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture.
• Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and product managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Batch and Streaming teams.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• Develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.

Requirements

• Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
• 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
• Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
• Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems.
• Expertise in scaling frameworks like Spark, Flink, and Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS.
• Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
• Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.