Manager, Software Engineering, Backend (Transactional Comms)

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. The Comms Core team, part of the Transactional Communications area, focuses on building robust, reliable, and scalable platforms that enable Affirm to design, create, and deliver communications to users. The Transactional Communications teams are fully based in Europe and own the end-to-end communications experience from template creation to ensuring successful message delivery to users.

• 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer role with leadership responsibilities and 1+ years as an engineering manager.
• Drive to change consumer financial services for the better.
• Prior experience growing and managing a high performing engineering team.
• Fluency in back end development.
• Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products.
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.

• Lead, mentor, and grow an engineering team responsible for designing and developing the communication platform at Affirm for all channels (sms, email, push, physical).
• Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
• Own availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.
• Partner with product managers to design and build best-in-class systems and processes for Comms Platform.
• Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who use Comms platform to keep in touch with customers throughout the entire lifecycle of a loan at Affirm.
• Build relationships and engage with senior management in the organization.

This role is located in Poland and is remote within Poland. Affirm provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities during the hiring process. The job description is not a contractual document and is not intended to have binding force.