Manager, Software Engineering, Fullstack, (Repayment UX Engineering)

Affirm is a company reinventing credit to provide honest and friendly financing options with a buy now, pay later model. The Repayment UX team focuses on the user experience for customers managing payment plans and repayments, reaching over 20 million users and handling more than $40B in loans annually. This team is full-stack, based in Europe within the same time zone, and culturally influenced by Silicon Valley.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years managing and growing engineering teams.
• Proven delivery of consumer-facing software and ability to drive execution through ambiguity.
• Experience managing performance through clear expectations, candid feedback, and engineer development.
• Technical judgment to guide architecture, quality, and reliability decisions, empowering senior engineers.
• Experience leading significant technical initiatives end-to-end, including re-platforming consumer-facing systems.
• Familiarity with modern full-stack development including declarative UI frameworks like React or React Native, and backend-for-frontend architectures.
• Strong presence to build alignment and lead through change and ambiguity.
• Humble, team-first leadership with a focus on high-trust, psychologically safe culture.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with global cross-functional teams.

• Lead and grow a well-balanced team of engineers by setting expectations, providing feedback, and supporting engineer development.
• Own the team's technical strategy and roadmap aligned with customer trust and business goals.
• Empower the tech lead and engineers to maintain design and quality standards with hands-on support.
• Manage system availability, reliability, performance, on-call responsibilities, and incident response.
• Break down large programs into sprint-sized milestones with clear accountability.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, Analytics, and other Engineering teams.
• Guide the team to increase output using focus, leverage, and agentic AI.
• Drive hiring and onboarding to build a diverse, high-performing team fostering ownership, quality, and transparency.

This job description is not a contractual document and is not intended to have binding force. The majority of roles can be located anywhere in Poland with remote working options, but some roles may require occasional office presence. Affirm is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive interview experiences and reasonable accommodations. Candidates acknowledge reading Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice upon application.