Affirm is a fintech company focused on helping consumers manage purchases through transparent payment options. Its buy now, pay later service lets customers split eligible purchases into flexible payments without hidden fees or compound interest. Affirm also offers a debit card that allows users to choose between paying over time for larger purchases and paying in full for smaller transactions. The company works with retailers in categories such as electronics, apparel, and travel, supporting checkout payments online and in physical stores, and its services integrate with Apple Pay. Affirm’s work spans consumer finance, e-commerce, and the technology that connects shoppers, merchants, and payment products.
Software Engineering Manager, Marketing and Privacy
Lead Affirm’s Marketing and Consumer Privacy Engineering teams, shaping privacy-aware web platforms and measurement systems. Build strong engineering practices while balancing customer needs, business goals, and privacy.
Description
- Lead and develop engineers across Marketing and Consumer Privacy Engineering.
- Create and refine a shared operating model for the Marketing and Privacy Engineering teams.
- Work with product managers and technical leads to turn priorities into engineering plans and roadmap delivery.
- Set technical direction across logged-out web experiences, experimentation, marketing integrations, attribution, measurement, consent, privacy experiences, and consumer data collection.
- Build working relationships across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Privacy, Legal, and neighboring engineering teams.
- Define ownership and dependable practices for client-side and server-side tagging and measurement systems.
- Account for consent, cookies, tagging, and consumer data collection when designing solutions.
- Balance growth and measurement goals with consumer privacy priorities.
- Guide the team toward reliable, scalable solutions while weighing quality, customer needs, business priorities, delivery speed, and risk.
Requirements
- Experience managing and developing software engineers.
- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative, high-performing teams through coaching, direct feedback, and accountability.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and technical judgment.
- Ideally, experience leading teams responsible for consumer-facing or high-traffic web platforms, complex systems, or integrations.
- Experience turning product and business priorities into engineering plans.
- Experience leading delivery across different technical areas, product partners, and roadmaps.
- Ability to align Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Good judgment when handling ambiguity, competing priorities, dependencies, and risk.
- Experience with marketing technology, web experimentation, analytics, attribution, instrumentation, or measurement systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and the Australian Privacy Act (APPs), or with privacy-aware systems such as consent management, cookies, tagging, data collection, or consumer privacy experiences, is a plus.
Benefits
- Monthly allowances for health, wellness, and technology expenses.
- Medical coverage for employees and dependents is fully subsidized.
- Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Generous holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan offering Affirm shares at a discount.
- Remote-first work arrangements.
- Accessible interview process with accommodations for candidates with disabilities.
- In-person onboarding for all new hires.