Manager, Software Engineering (Identity)

Responsibilities

• You will lead and grow a well-balanced team of engineers – setting clear expectations, giving direct feedback, and developing each engineer toward their next level.
• You will own the team’s technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, tying it to major experience initiatives that build customer trust and move Affirm’s business, including large-scale redesigns and structural improvements to the identity verification journey.
• You will empower your tech lead and engineers to hold the design and quality bar, supporting them hands-on throughout technical design and cross-functional alignment.
• You will own the availability, reliability, and performance of consumer-critical systems – on-call, incident response, and reducing operational toil.
• You will drive alignment across multiple organizations and influence roadmaps on partner experience and foundational teams.
• You will partner across Product
• Design, and Analytics, and other Engineering teams, building trust and taking part in cross-functional efforts.
• What we look for
• You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams.
• You have proven experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity.

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