Manager, Software Engineering (Onfra Engineering)
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 Cloud Compute team owns the foundational capabilities which power Affirms Kubernetes-based online infrastructure. The team delivers engineering expertise to enable the management, configuration, provisioning, and operation of our computing platform. We deliver the resources for infrastructure and product engineering teams to run their workloads at scale. We aspire to provide simple and self-serve interfaces that are used daily by every engineer at Affirm.
What you’ll do
- Lead a European-based team of infrastructure engineers - guiding their technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Infrastructure team. You will shape and own Affirm’s strategy for delivering and managing our foundational computing infrastructure.
- Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across the platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
- Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools to handle new Affirm products and business needs that can securely scale across millions of users and their transactions.
- Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team, promoting best practices in design, coding, and testing.
What we look for
- 7+ years of software development experience.
- 3+ years of technical and organizational leadership, preferably in the infrastructure or SRE domain.
- Experience in a SaaS company delivery services 24/7
- A deep knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration technologies.
- Experience with cloud-native traffic management, networking, and security concepts at scale (Istio, Cilium, eBPF)
- Experience in designing and creating cloud-native CD systems with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar technologies.
- Solid CS fundamentals and practical coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services with Python, Go, C++, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala).
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud providers.
- Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Istio, and Nginx, but we are open to exploring new technologies.
- Have an enthusiastic vision for leading technical teams and building their careers.
- You prefer leveraging, enhancing, and contributing to Open Source solutions rather than starting from scratch.
- Experience in cross-time-zone collaboration, ensuring alignment and effective communication with global teams.
Compensation & Benefits
Base Pay Grade - P
Equity Grade - 5
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
POL base pay range per year: 358,000 zł - 458,000 zł
Additional benefits include:
- Type of employment: Contract of Employment
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental leave
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
- This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
Location - Remote Poland
The majority of our roles can be located anywhere in Poland.
**This job description is not a contractual document, and is not intended to have binding force.**
#LI-Remote
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- 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
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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