Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

Xapply; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm’s Identity team is mission-critical to the customer checkout experience. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a balanced team of engineers in the UK, shaping identity verification architecture, scale, and reliability across markets outside North America.

You will own the technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, partner with Product, Design, and Analytics, and mentor engineers to reach their next level while maintaining high standards for availability and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams
• Experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a well-balanced team of engineers – set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and develop each engineer toward their next level.
• Own the team’s technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, tying it to major experience initiatives that build customer trust and move affirm’s business.
• Empower your tech lead and engineers to hold the design and quality bar, supporting them hands-on throughout technical design and cross-functional alignment.
• Own the availability, reliability, and performance of consumer-critical systems – on-call, incident response, and reducing operational toil.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations and influence roadmaps on partner experience and foundational teams.
• Partner across Product, Design, and Analytics, and other Engineering teams, building trust and taking part in cross-functional efforts.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Strategic planning

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Affirm’s Identity team is mission-critical to the customer checkout experience. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a balanced team of engineers in the UK, shaping identity verification architecture, scale, and reliability across markets outside North America.

You will own the technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, partner with Product, Design, and Analytics, and mentor engineers to reach their next level while maintaining high standards for availability and performance.