Senior Manager, Marketplace Performance Engineering

Affirm; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm is a remote-first company seeking an engineering leader to set technical strategy for a year-long horizon, aligning with business-impacting projects across product, design and analytics. You will drive reliability, code quality, and operational readiness while mentoring teammates.

This role spans the full stack and emphasizes collaboration across the global engineering team. Expected to guide architectural decisions, manage trade-offs, and deliver major features with clear execution

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• Experience delivering major features with a technical execution plan.
• Strong verbal and written communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team over a year and align with key projects.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage trade-offs.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating technical solutions.
• Own operations and availability with monitoring, on-call playbooks, and policies.
• Foster quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

React

Job description

Affirm is a remote-first company seeking an engineering leader to set technical strategy for a year-long horizon, aligning with business-impacting projects across product, design and analytics. You will drive reliability, code quality, and operational readiness while mentoring teammates.

This role spans the full stack and emphasizes collaboration across the global engineering team. Expected to guide architectural decisions, manage trade-offs, and deliver major features with clear execution