Director of Software Engineering
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- 15+ years of relevant experience in software and site reliability engineering
- Experience leading SRE, systems engineering, and full stack engineering teams
- Successful track record driving key outcomes that drive the company’s success
- Comfortable partnering across disciplines and influencing across a wide variety of leaders
- World-class communicator with excellent instincts for empathetic messaging
- Keen technical mind comfortable reading and understanding full-stack code
- Proven track record of establishing and growing teams, retaining talent, and comfort working with ambiguity
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- In this role, you will build and mature best-in-class reliability practices, including incident response, risk management, and operational lifecycle programs, embedding resilience into every stage of development
- You will partner closely with Product, Security, Enterprise Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering leaders to proactively identify and mitigate systemic risks across the organization
- You will hire, grow, and lead a diverse, global team of SREs, systems engineers, and full-stack engineers, fostering a culture that values learning, experimentation, and accountability
- As a senior technical leader, you will balance hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership, helping Affirm move fast while maintaining the trust of our users and partners at scale
- Set the vision and drive execution for Reliability Engineering at Affirm
- Own and coordinate delivery of high availability of core Affirm’s services, to attain our service level standards and expectations with external partners
- Iterate and maintain a best-in-industry global incident response & lifecycle program
- Build software and program management structure to perform continual risk management across the entire Affirm system and Engineering organization
- Run a robust development lifecycle establishing a culture for operational excellence, while experimenting and failing fast
- Work with a wide variety of cross functional partners outside of engineering ranging from product, enterprise risk, security, legal and compliance
- Hire and build a global team of SREs, system engineers, and full stack engineers
- Cultivate a respectful and supportive environment for all team members that effectively demonstrates the diversity of the team
Benefits
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
About Affirm
At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products.
We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more.
A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company email address domains (either “@affirm.com” or "@us.greenhouse-mail.io”) to communicate with candidates via email.
We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more.
Affirm is also proud to be a remote-first company! Attracting great people starts by finding talent in different places. That's why we built remote work into the DNA of how we do business—but if an office space is more your style, we have offices in Chicago, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Toronto.
Not to mention we have comprehensive and award-winning benefits that were made for you.
Interested in learning more? Check out our careers page and apply today!
Visit affirm.com/careers for more information.
A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company email address domains (either “@affirm.com” or "@us.greenhouse-mail.io”) to communicate with candidates via email.
Director of Software Engineering
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- 15+ years of relevant experience in software and site reliability engineering
- Experience leading SRE, systems engineering, and full stack engineering teams
- Successful track record driving key outcomes that drive the company’s success
- Comfortable partnering across disciplines and influencing across a wide variety of leaders
- World-class communicator with excellent instincts for empathetic messaging
- Keen technical mind comfortable reading and understanding full-stack code
- Proven track record of establishing and growing teams, retaining talent, and comfort working with ambiguity
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- In this role, you will build and mature best-in-class reliability practices, including incident response, risk management, and operational lifecycle programs, embedding resilience into every stage of development
- You will partner closely with Product, Security, Enterprise Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering leaders to proactively identify and mitigate systemic risks across the organization
- You will hire, grow, and lead a diverse, global team of SREs, systems engineers, and full-stack engineers, fostering a culture that values learning, experimentation, and accountability
- As a senior technical leader, you will balance hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership, helping Affirm move fast while maintaining the trust of our users and partners at scale
- Set the vision and drive execution for Reliability Engineering at Affirm
- Own and coordinate delivery of high availability of core Affirm’s services, to attain our service level standards and expectations with external partners
- Iterate and maintain a best-in-industry global incident response & lifecycle program
- Build software and program management structure to perform continual risk management across the entire Affirm system and Engineering organization
- Run a robust development lifecycle establishing a culture for operational excellence, while experimenting and failing fast
- Work with a wide variety of cross functional partners outside of engineering ranging from product, enterprise risk, security, legal and compliance
- Hire and build a global team of SREs, system engineers, and full stack engineers
- Cultivate a respectful and supportive environment for all team members that effectively demonstrates the diversity of the team
Benefits
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
About Affirm
At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products.
We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more.
A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company email address domains (either “@affirm.com” or "@us.greenhouse-mail.io”) to communicate with candidates via email.
We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more.
Affirm is also proud to be a remote-first company! Attracting great people starts by finding talent in different places. That's why we built remote work into the DNA of how we do business—but if an office space is more your style, we have offices in Chicago, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Toronto.
Not to mention we have comprehensive and award-winning benefits that were made for you.
Interested in learning more? Check out our careers page and apply today!
Visit affirm.com/careers for more information.
A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company email address domains (either “@affirm.com” or "@us.greenhouse-mail.io”) to communicate with candidates via email.