Affirm’s vision is to deliver honest financial products that improve lives. In the US now, Affirm now covers half of all ecommerce volume and has access to nearly all buyers. Our mission, as part of the Merchant, Partner and Platform Engineering (MPPE) team, is to grow Affirm’s revenue by helping Merchants and Partners acquire and retain valued customers with industry leading, innovative Buy Now Pay Later POS checkout experiences. We are just getting started. Come be a part of a team shaping the future!

In this role as a Director, Software Engineering you will be responsible for building strategicpartnerships with our key Merchants such as Shopify, Stripe, Fiserv and BigCommerce. You will be developing, best in industry, Affirm’s wallet and platform integrations with our partners that allow user experiences that enable frictionless checkout conversion and scaling integration of our partners into new global markets. The ideal candidate will be passionate about fostering a culture of innovation, unafraid to roll up their sleeves with engineers to achieve technical excellence with a proven track record of delivering results. 

Key Responsibilities

• Set the vision and execute on technology roadmap - Collaborate with Product, Commercial and Foundational engineering teams to envision and execute on ambitious ideas and build practical technology capabilities needed to realize the vision. Drive clarity from ambiguity to aid faster decisions grounded on principles. 
• Develop and measure Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to improve KPIs for platform resilience, developer experience and time to market. 
• Participate in quarterly planning and work closely with peers and teams to remove impediments, articulate tradeoffs and garner resources 
• Build the best team - Grow globally minded teams by attracting and hiring diverse talent and build a strong leadership bench. Provide tailored coaching, mentoring for Engineering managers and inspire a team of full stack engineers
• Demonstrate humility to admit mistakes and grow from failures and build a culture of continuous improvement

Required skills 

• • Demonstrated experience in architecting, building and scaling platforms and distributed systems that require high availability, resilience and meeting stringent SLO objectives is required. 
  • Experience with developing and maintaining external facing APIs and developer portals is required
  • Experience with streaming APIs and data analytics is preferred
  • Experience in building and leading geographically dispersed teams in a leadership capacity with a minimum of 5 years being a manager of managers is required 
  • Experience with Fintech, Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) marketing and personalization capabilities is desirable.