Remote ML Engineering Manager, Checkout Lending

Academic Key; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 142,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Tech stipend

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers powering credit lending decisions across Europe and Australia. This remote-first role focuses on defining strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering scalable ML solutions within an international underwriting context.

You will work with product, risk, analytics, and design partners to advance ML techniques, including transformers and tree-based models, while navigating ambiguity and large systems architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 8+ years in industry.
• Minimum 3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience in financial services, especially lending.
• Proficiency in ML techniques including transformers and tree-based models.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical strategy for your team and align projects with underwriting system goals.
• Advocate for scalable technical solutions and procedures.
• Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and risk teams to ensure sustainability and trade-offs are understood.
• Develop talent through mentorship and leading by example.

Skills

Team management

Credit/lending domain

Transformer models

Tree-based models

Deep learning

Agentic ML

Engineering leadership

Ambiguity navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Affirm is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers powering credit lending decisions across Europe and Australia. This remote-first role focuses on defining strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering scalable ML solutions within an international underwriting context.

You will work with product, risk, analytics, and design partners to advance ML techniques, including transformers and tree-based models, while navigating ambiguity and large systems architecture.