Manager, Software Engineering (App Experiences)

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the front-end oriented Consumer team across mobile apps and web experiences. You will shape the technical strategy, own multi-quarter roadmaps, and empower senior engineers while ensuring reliability of consumer-critical systems.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and other Engineering teams to deliver complex, scalable experiences for millions of users, including large-scale redesigns and performance improvements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in leadership
• Proven track record delivering consumer-facing software
• Ability to guide architecture, quality, and reliability decisions
• Experience leading significant technical initiatives end-to-end
• Familiar with modern full-stack development (React/React Native) and BFF patterns
• Calm, decisive leader capable of handling change and ambiguity
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and organizational influence
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a balanced team of engineers, set expectations and provide feedback
• Own the team’s technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap
• Empower tech leads and engineers through design and cross-functional alignment
• Own availability, reliability, and performance of consumer-critical systems
• Drive alignment across organizations and influence partner roadmaps
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics and other Engineering teams

Skills

Engineering leadership

React/React Native

Technical strategy

Roadmap ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

React

React Native

Backend-for-Frontend

Job description

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 Engineering team builds systems that power affirm's mission. We take pride in our craft, building reliable, performant, and scalable solutions that touch every part of the business. Whether we're enabling new ways to pay, ensuring our platforms can scale to the most demanding levels in the industry, or developing seamless servicing experiences, our focus is on solving complex problems through exceptional engineering.

The Marketplace and App Experiences domain is the main pillar of our core consumer strategy, driving the user journey across all of our frontend surfaces: iOS, Android, and Web. The teams span across multiple products and areas to engage and provide value to our customers, starting with the Home hub in the app or website, which expands into the various product offers and journeys a user can embark on with affirm, including providing cohesive user experiences for a user's credit journey or purchasing power with affirm, and redesigns of the broader visuals and experience. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team at the forefront of our front-end facing cross-team projects, working closely with other teams and engineers across our mobile and web technologies, while also evolving and collaborating with every product experience team at affirm.

As an Engineering Manager on our Consumer team, you'll help define how millions of consumers experience affirm across our mobile apps, web experiences, and future consumer surfaces.

What You'll Do

• You will lead and grow a well-balanced team of engineers – setting clear expectations, giving direct feedback, and developing each engineer toward their next level.

• You will 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, including large-scale redesigns and structural improvements to the consumer journey.

• You will empower your tech lead and engineers to hold the design and quality bar, supporting them hands-on throughout technical design and cross-functional alignment.

• You will own the availability, reliability, and performance of consumer-critical systems – on-call, incident response, and reducing operational toil.

• You will drive alignment across multiple organizations and influence roadmaps on partner experience and foundational teams.

• You will partner across Product, Design, and Analytics, and other Engineering teams, building trust and taking part in cross-functional efforts.

What We Look For

• You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams.

• You have proven experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity.

• You have the technical judgment required to guide architecture, quality, and reliability decisions, with the instinct to empower senior engineers to make the calls rather than making them all yourself.

• You have experience leading significant technical initiatives end-to-end, ideally decoupling or re-platforming consumer-facing systems within clear time constraints.

• You are familiar with modern full-stack development – declarative UI frameworks like React or React Native, and a backend-for-frontend behind them.

• You have a calm, decisive presence through change and ambiguity – building alignment, resolving tensions, and leading others through complex decisions.

• You are a humble, team-first leader who builds a high-trust, psychologically safe culture, while also prioritizing your own growth.

• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints.

• You exhibit exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and organizational influence skills.

• You have a proven ability to build alignment and drive outcomes in complex environments without direct authority.

• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Pay Grade - P

Equity Grade - 13

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 equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $230,000 - $290,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $204,000 - $264,000

#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.