Software Engineering Manager (Identity)

Join Affirm's Identity team as a Software Engineering Manager. In this mission-critical role, you will shape the core Identity platform, lead a team of engineers, and drive alignment across multiple organizations. You will have a significant impact on Affirm's international expansion and customer checkout experience. Enjoy a remote-first work environment, generous time off, and comprehensive health benefits.

• Lead and grow a well-balanced team of engineers, setting clear expectations, giving direct feedback, and developing each engineer toward their next level.
• Own the team’s technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, tying it to major experience initiatives that build customer trust and move Affirm’s business.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations and influence roadmaps on partner experience and foundational teams.

• You have the technical judgment required to guide architecture, quality, and reliability decisions, with the instinct to empower senior engineers to make the calls rather than making them all yourself
• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• You exhibit exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and organizational influence skills
• You have a proven ability to build alignment and drive outcomes in complex environments without direct authority
• You have proven experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• You have experience leading significant technical initiatives end-to-end, ideally decoupling or re-platforming consumer-facing systems within clear time constraints
• You have a calm, decisive presence through change and ambiguity – building alignment, resolving tensions, and leading others through complex decisions
• You are a humble, team-first leader who builds a high-trust, psychologically safe culture, while also prioritizing your own growth
• You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams