Manager, Software Engineering (Loans Lifecycle)
Affirm · Remote US
About this role
## About Affirm At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The **Ledger Engineering** team enables rapid financial product innovation by providing an audit-grade ledger platform that ties ambitious company growth to real-world accounting controls in a highly regulated industry. We build robust, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems to ensure we’re on-time and precisely accurate in every financial interaction with consumers and institutional finance partners. Ledger Engineering supports everything from monthly close to annual audits, bridging the technical gap between data, strategy, and the accounting detail required to operate a publicly traded company. We also partner with Capital Markets to provide the forensic level of reporting investors require. --- ## What you’ll do - Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and help connect it to critical, business-impacting projects. - Collaborate across the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are understood and managed. - Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating for technical solutions and operational processes. - Own team operations and availability by ensuring monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place to support “keep the lights on” and on-call efforts. - Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks. - Help develop talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example. --- ## What we look for - 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale (e.g., **Python** or **Kotlin**), and 2+ years of experience managing a software team. - Proven track record building highly available distributed systems using technologies such as **AWS**, **MySQL**, **Spark**, and **Kubernetes**. - Experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury, or adjacent domains where data accuracy and reliability are critical. - Ability to manage a high-performance team—delivering results by growing the team, coaching engineers, and aligning stakeholders. - Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team. - Requires equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field. --- ## Compensation & Location - **Base Pay Grade:** P - **Equity Grade:** 13 - **USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT):** $230,000 – $290,000 / year - **USA base pay range (all other U.S. states):** $204,000 – $264,000 / year Affirm offers a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits including **100% subsidized medical coverage** (plus dental and vision for you and your dependents). **#LI-Remote** --- ## Remote-first with flexibility built in Affirm is **remote-first**. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires are invited to an in-person onboarding experience. --- ## Benefits designed for you (highlights) - **Health coverage at no cost:*
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