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Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Fraud Decisioning)

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Location
Canada
Base Salary
169k-253k CAD
Affirm

Job Description

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

Our Fraud Engineering team’s mission is to defend both consumers and our business by preventing fraud at the point of purchase, uncovering fraud after it’s occurred and mitigating its impact. We need you to help build our next generation fraud mitigation platform that is flexible enough to respond to scaled fraud attacks while giving legitimate users a frictionless experience.

Are you passionate about leading a team to protect our customers from identity theft and account takeover in an adversarial and dynamic environment? Affirm’s Fraud Engineering team is growing and looking for a senior engineering manager to help keep our customers safe.

What You'll Do

  • Collaborate with our Product, Analytics, and Operations teams to set and execute our risk mitigation strategy
  • Recruit and hire senior engineers
  • Coach, develop, retain, and provide feedback to team members
  • Organize the Fraud Engineering team as necessary to fulfill its mandate
  • Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success
  • Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business
  • Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution

What We Look For

  • Passionate: Passionate about Affirm's Mission: "Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives"
  • Technical: Solid engineering fundamentals and real world experience building scalable engineering solutions
  • Collaborative: Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and business partners
  • Humble: You lead with the humility and self-awareness needed to navigate challenging situations
  • User Focused: Cares about the details in the user experience
  • Experience: 3+ years managing high performing engineering teams

Pay Grade - CAN 32

Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.

CAN base pay range per year:

Min: 168,600 CAD

Mid: 210,800 CAD

Max: 252,900 CAD

Location: Remote - Canada

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

  • 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

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read the Affirm Employment Privacy Policy for applicants within the United States, the EU Employee Notice Regarding Use of Personal Data (Poland) for applicants applying from Poland, the EU Employee Notice Regarding Use of Personal Data (Spain) for applicants applying from Spain, or the Affirm U.K. Limited Employee Notice Regarding Use of Personal Data for applicants applying from the United Kingdom, and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.

Advice from our career coach

A successful applicant for the senior engineering manager position at Affirm's Fraud Engineering team should understand the company's mission of reinventing credit to be more honest and customer-friendly, and be passionate about protecting customers from fraud. Here are some specific tips to stand out as an applicant:

  • Highlight your experience in managing high-performing engineering teams, as Affirm is looking for candidates with at least 3 years of experience in this area.
  • Showcase your technical expertise and experience in building scalable engineering solutions.
  • Emphasize your collaborative skills and experience working cross-functionally, especially with product managers and business partners.
  • Demonstrate a user-focused mindset and attention to detail in ensuring a seamless user experience.
  • Illustrate your ability to establish OKRs and critical metrics to drive the engineering team's success and set its direction.
  • Articulate your leadership approach, emphasizing qualities such as humility, self-awareness, and a commitment to building a strong engineering culture.

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