Director, Software Engineering (Loans Lifecycle)

The Loans Lifecycle engineering organization at Affirm is seeking a Director to lead the Loans Platform, Ledger Engineering, and Financial Reporting teams. Key responsibilities include setting the vision, driving execution, defining and executing the technical roadmap, ensuring financial accuracy and regulatory compliance, and balancing product expansion with foundational platform investments.

Vision and Execution

• Set the vision and drive execution for the Loans Lifecycle engineering organization
• Take ownership of core engineering and business outcomes across the domain, including the loan system of record, ledger pipelines, and financial data delivery to accounting systems

Technical Roadmap

• Define and execute the technical roadmap for service-oriented decomposition, platform scalability, and database architecture evolution to support Affirm's growing loan volume across multiple geographies

Partnership and Compliance

• Partner with Accounting, Finance, Capital Markets, Product, and Compliance to ensure financial accuracy and regulatory compliance across all loan products

Operational Excellence

• Drive operational excellence across large-scale batch pipelines and online services, establishing robust incident response, pipeline SLA management, and reconciliation processes

Team Development

• Run a robust development lifecycle, including continuing agency adoption and acceleration, while improving a culture of operational excellence
• Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing, globally distributed engineering team across multiple sub-teams and technical disciplines

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant experience in software engineering
• 3+ years managing managers with a track record of high quality manager development
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams spanning backend services and big data/batch pipelines
• Successful track record driving key outcomes that drive the company's success
• Comfortable partnering across disciplines and influencing across a wide variety of leaders
• Experience hiring, growing, and retaining talent
• Strong technical depth in distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and database architecture at scale
• Has domain knowledge in financial systems, lending, accounting, or fintech

Base Pay Grade - T Equity Grade - 18 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.)