Manager, Software Engineering (Marketplace Performance)

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.

We’re evolving our marketplace by building Affirm's first fully-featured ads platform to make a best in class shopping destination for our merchants and customers. We know that by pairing consumer insights, segmentation and personalization with our vast network of merchants, we can achieve that goal. The Marketplace Performance team owns the foundation of several key monetization artifacts that drive GMV for the company. We work cross-functionally to achieve these goals by closely partnering with our Revenue, TAM, CSM and Merchant partners. This team plays a large role in making Affirm marketplace the destination consumers trust and turn to for discovery, comprehension and shopping.

What You'll Do · You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. · You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed. · You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes. · You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. · You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. · You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For · You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. · You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes. · You have experience developing consumer experiences using UI frameworks like React · You have 2+ years of experience working in Ad Tech or related platforms. · You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. · You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work. · Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers. · You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. · This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.