Affirm
We create honest financial products that improve lives.
Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Lake Analytics Platform
Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
44 days ago
Salary
$232K - $310K / year
Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglishApacheAWSCloudKafkaKubernetesOpen SourceSpark
Job Description
• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
• Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Lakehouse Analytics, Analytics Engineering and Privacy Engineering teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
- Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
- Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
- Expertise in scaling frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
- Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
- Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
Benefits
- 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
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