Vice President - Software Engineering

April 11

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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

•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. •At Affirm we build honest financial products that improve lives. Our mobile app, deals marketplace, and card products are critical to this mission. We are looking for an exceptional engineering leader who can scale these products through our next phase of growth. •Set the technical vision and strategy for how we build consumer products at Affirm. •Instill a culture of engineering excellence and high availability across all of your teams. •Champion the shift to an AI-first engineering approach - accelerating the adoption of GenAI across consumer product experiences and in the software development lifecycle. •Support and partner with the broader engineering organization to improve our consumer experiences. •Set a high standard for operational rigor on the team. •Understand the product and business goals and vigorously participate in our engineering-wide roadmap planning process. •Lead, grow, hire and inspire a high-performing engineering organization.

🎯 Requirements

•Has had primary responsibility for the development and operational management of an app with tens of millions of users. •Extensive experience developing amazing consumer experiences with AI/ML. •Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering strategies. •Demonstrated ability to successfully develop, hire and partner with principal software engineers. •Strong leader of leaders who has successfully developed hired and partnered with senior individual contributors, managers and directors. •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.