Senior Director - Software Engineering

February 26

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Affirm

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Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

📋 Description

• Set the vision for the next generation of traffic management, capacity planning and load testing capabilities and practices at Affirm. • Hire world-class engineers with a deep understanding of traffic management concepts such as load shedding, rate limiting, caching, etc. • Lead our annual peak season planning across the technology organization • Support and partner with the broader engineering organization to understand the needs of, and then roll out, the capacity planning and load testing tools you develop. • Vigorously participate in our engineering-wide roadmap planning process. • All this will require a leader who sets a strong and inspiring vision, but also rolls up their sleeves and gets into the details, putting significant effort into understanding our unique business and the systems and people that support it.

🎯 Requirements

• Has been responsible for traffic management, load testing or capacity planning at an organization with hundreds of millions of users. • Extensive experience in designing and implementing traffic shaping, cluster management, and load shedding systems at scale • Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects. • Demonstrated ability to successfully develop, hire and partner with principal software engineers. • Exceptional leader who can mentor and manage high potential engineers and leaders earlier in their career. • Detail oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day to day execution and delivery. • Strong communicator who effectively lays out their vision for their team, the broader engineering organization, senior executive and partners. • Excited about both our mission to deliver honest financial products and to do it by building a meritocracy.

🏖️ 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