About the Role
Affirm provides a clear, predictable way for people to pay over time, with no hidden fees or surprises. Its Engineering team builds reliable, performant, and scalable systems that support the company's products and operations. The Cards team works with card issuers to create flexible credit cards for everyday spending and large purchases.
Responsibilities
•Hire and lead teams in Spain and Poland
•Build a strong team culture and set high standards
•Define the technical direction, long-term roadmap, and strategic initiatives for Cards
•Lead by example in using AI to build quickly, take initiative, and transform ways of working
•Partner with stakeholders across Affirm to advance technical excellence and business results
•Build an ownership culture across teams, with accountability and a focus on scale and efficiency
•Mentor and lead managers and engineers
•Guide integrations with partners and processors and support internationalization
•Reduce the time required to integrate with external partners and enable card launches in new countries as Affirm expands
•Shape engineering culture across Cards and collaborate with engineering leaders on how teams work
•Guide architectural choices and deliver critical initiatives
•Participate in the required on-call rotation
Requirements
•10+ years of software engineering experience
•5+ years managing engineering teams
•2+ years managing managers
•Experience leading a multi-team engineering organization through a multi-year technical strategy and turning ambiguous requirements into shipped deliverables
•Technical depth to guide architecture, reliability, and quality decisions across a portfolio of systems while empowering tech leads and architects to make decisions
•Ability to make investment and prioritization decisions amid disagreement or incomplete consensus, and to change course when evidence changes
•Ability to explain strategy, risk, and tradeoffs to engineers, cross-functional partners, and executives
•Experience developing managers into senior leaders and building teams where diverse perspectives are included and valued on merit
•Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field
Conditions & Benefits
•Base pay range in Spain: €119,000 - €155,000 per year
•Equity Grade: Spain 7; employees may be eligible for equity rewards from Affirm Holdings, Inc
•Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and technology spending
•Medical coverage, dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents, with premiums fully subsidized
•Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, and lifestyle
•Wellness days, learning and development programs, and parental benefits
•Employee Resource & Community Groups
•Flexible time off and holiday calendars
•Employee stock purchase plan with discounted Affirm stock
•Visa sponsorship is available; the role requires being based in Spain
•Remote-first, with occasional in-person work at an Affirm office possible and in-person onboarding for new hires
