Senior Director, Software Engineering

Side Hamburg; Mississippi; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Director to spearhead traffic management strategies and capacity planning. This pivotal role involves setting the vision for next-gen traffic management, hiring top-tier engineers, and ensuring robust load testing capabilities. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in managing complex engineering projects and a strong ability to communicate their vision effectively. Join a forward-thinking team that prioritizes people and offers a remote-first work environment, competitive benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of financial technology.

Benefits

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Qualifications

• Experience in traffic management and load testing for large user bases.
• Proven track record in leading complex engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Set vision for traffic management and capacity planning at Affirm.
• Lead peak season planning and develop load testing tools.

Skills

Traffic management

Load testing

Capacity planning

Team leadership

Communication skills

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.

At Affirm, we’ve been very successful in our mission in delivering honest financial products that improve lives. In order to further this mission as we scale, we are looking for a Senior Director focused on developing world-class traffic management capabilities for Affirm.

What You’ll Do:

• Set the vision for the next generation of traffic management, capacity planning, and load testing capabilities and practices at Affirm.
• Hire world-class engineers with a deep understanding of traffic management concepts such as load shedding, rate limiting, caching, etc.
• Lead our annual peak season planning across the technology organization.
• Support and partner with the broader engineering organization to understand the needs of, and then roll out, the capacity planning and load testing tools you develop.
• Vigorously participate in our engineering-wide roadmap planning process.

All this will require a leader who sets a strong and inspiring vision, but also rolls up their sleeves and gets into the details, putting significant effort into understanding our unique business and the systems and people that support it.

What We Look For:

• Has been responsible for traffic management, load testing, or capacity planning at an organization with hundreds of millions of users.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing traffic shaping, cluster management, and load shedding systems at scale.
• Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully develop, hire, and partner with principal software engineers.
• Exceptional leader who can mentor and manage high potential engineers and leaders earlier in their career.
• Detail-oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day-to-day execution and delivery.
• Strong communicator who effectively lays out their vision for their team, the broader engineering organization, senior executives, and partners.

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.

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.

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