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Salary: CAD 181,000 - 241,000 / annual
Affirm is seeking a Manager of Software Engineering to lead the Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) team. This role manages two engineering pillars—Marketing and Consumer Privacy Engineering—united under a shared mission to build trusted, privacy-aware consumer web experiences and measurement systems that enable sustainable growth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading, developing, and supporting engineers across both pillars, fostering an environment for growth and increased responsibility
- Establishing and continuously improving a shared operating model that unites Marketing and Privacy around common mission while clarifying priorities, technical ownership, decision-making, and ways of working
- Partnering with Product Managers and technical leads to translate business priorities into engineering plans and deliver against roadmaps
- Guiding engineering strategy across Logged-Out Web, web experimentation, marketing integrations, attribution and measurement, consent, privacy experiences, and consumer data collection
- Building strong cross-functional partnerships with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Privacy, Legal, and adjacent teams to establish clear ownership of shared systems
- Enabling privacy-aware engineering by ensuring consent, cookies, tagging, and data collection are considered in solution design
- Holding the team accountable for delivering reliable, scalable solutions while balancing quality, customer needs, business priorities, speed, and risk
Requirements:
- Proven experience managing and developing software engineers with a track record of building collaborative, high-performing teams through coaching, feedback, and accountability
- Strong software engineering foundation and technical judgment, ideally with experience leading teams responsible for consumer-facing or high-traffic web platforms and complex systems or integrations
- Experience translating product and business priorities into engineering plans and leading execution across distinct technical domains and roadmaps toward a shared mission
- Ability to build alignment across Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders with strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Sound judgment navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, dependencies, and risk, with focus on engineering quality and operational excellence
- Plus: experience with marketing technology, web experimentation, analytics, attribution, instrumentation, or measurement systems
- Plus: familiarity with global privacy requirements (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, Australian Privacy Act) and/or experience with privacy-aware systems such as consent management, cookies, tagging, data collection, or consumer privacy experiences
