[Hiring] Manager, Software Engineering (Code to Environments) @Affirm

Role Description

We’re seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead Developer Environments. This role is critical to the end-to-end inner loop experience for engineers. You will lead the team building and operating the platforms that support environment provisioning, test execution, and automated developer infrastructure—partnering closely with CI/CD, infrastructure, security, and product engineering teams.

What you’ll do

• Leadership & Strategy
  • Define and drive the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity at Affirm.
  • Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and tie it to critical, business-impacting projects.
  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Developer Environments priorities with broader product, platform, and reliability goals.
• Systems & Operations
  • Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of the systems powering Affirm’s ephemeral developer environments used in both development and CI contexts.
  • Improve environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to enhance developer velocity and reliability.
  • Drive measurable improvements to the developer journey (e.g., startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, resource utilization).
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational playbooks to minimize downtime and developer impact.
  • Collaborate with CI/CD and Test Platform partners to tighten feedback loops and ensure environments integrate cleanly with build/test workflows.
• Collaboration & Enablement
  • Work closely across engineering to ensure smooth adoption of Developer Environments tooling and best practices.
  • Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and self-service.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting and improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience (or equivalent people leadership experience).
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, developer productivity, or adjacent domains.
• Strong technical background in backend/infrastructure systems (Python or Kotlin preferred, but not required) and the ability to guide architecture and execution.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes) and using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Hands-on familiarity with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening).
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teams.
• Comfort balancing trade-offs between build vs. buy, speed vs. safety, and developer experience vs. operational constraints.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Requirements

• Prior experience building or managing ephemeral or remote development environments.
• Experience optimizing orchestration and startup times and improving developer feedback loops.
• Background in test automation, build engineering, or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with Terraform/Helm or similar infrastructure tooling.
• 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.