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Manager, Software Engineering (Loans Lifecycle)

Lead a software engineering team focused on building robust financial systems in a remote-first environment.

Location
United States
Compensation
$204k–$264k/yr
Level
lead
Type
full time · Remote

Posted by employer 1 day ago

First seen on Joblaze 4 hours ago

Last verified on the company career page 4 hours ago

Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Set technical strategy for the team
  • Collaborate across teams in product development
  • Define and advocate for technical solutions
  • Ensure team operations and availability
  • Develop talent on the team

Must have

  • 8+ years of experience designing backend systems
  • 2+ years of experience managing a software team
  • Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes

Nice to have

  • Experience in financial systems
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

Role intensity

10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy

Requirements

Experience
8+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Flexible PTO Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Manager of Software Engineering for Loans Lifecycle at Affirm oversees the technical strategy and operational processes of their team, ensuring the development of robust backend systems. The position requires expertise in languages like Python or Kotlin, along with experience in distributed systems and financial technologies such as AWS and MySQL. Ideal candidates have significant management experience and a strong background in building high-performance teams. Affirm's remote-first culture emphasizes flexibility and collaboration across global engineering teams.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 18, 2026. Last confirmed on Affirm's careers page October 18, 2026.
  • Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$171,560).
  • Starts above 63% of 46 comparable lead management roles in United States that list Python we track (median $196,050 across 26 companies). See Python salary trends
  • Python appears in 12.1% of 604 comparable lead management roles in United States; MySQL appears in 0.2% of 604 comparable lead management roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Manager, Software Engineering (Loans Lifecycle) role remote?
Yes — Affirm lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?
Affirm lists $204,000–$264,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Manager, Software Engineering (Loans Lifecycle) role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Kotlin, Kubernetes, MySQL, Python, Spark.
What seniority level is this role?
Affirm targets lead candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Manager, Software Engineering (Loans Lifecycle) role at Affirm.

From the original posting

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

The Ledger Engineering team enables rapid financial product innovation by providing an audit-grade ledger platform that ties ambitious company growth to a highly regulated industry's real-world accounting controls. We are passionate about building robust, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems that enable us to be on-time and precisely accurate in every financial interaction we have both with our consumers and institutional finance partners.

Ledger Engineering works with our finance partners to support everything from closing our monthly books to annual audits. We bridge the technical gap between data, strategy, and the thorough level of accounting detail required to operate a publicly-traded company. Outside of accounting, we partner with the Capital Markets team to help open our business to investors who require a similar forensic level of reporting.

What you'll do

  • You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
  • You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
  • You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
  • You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
  • You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
  • You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What we look for

  • You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin, and 2+ years of experience managing a software team.
  • You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
  • You have experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical.
  • You understand how to manage a high performance team, delivering successfully by growing the team, coaching engineers, and aligning stakeholders.
  • You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Base Pay Grade - P
Equity Grade - 13

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $230,000 - $290,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $204,000 - $264,000

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Remote-first with flexibility built in
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.

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