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Salary: USD 204,000 - 290,000 / annual
Affirm is building a best-in-class ads platform and marketplace experience to drive monetization and GMV. The Marketplace Performance team owns the foundation of key monetization artifacts and works cross-functionally with Revenue, TAM, CSM, and Merchant partners to achieve business goals.
In this role, you will:
- Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and connect it to critical, business-impacting projects
- Collaborate across product development with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks and trade-offs
- Act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
- Own your team's operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting for on-call support
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards, and advocating for them through writing and tech talks
- Develop talent on your team through feedback, guidance, and leading by example
This is a people-management role where you will lead a team of software engineers building and maintaining systems that power Affirm's marketplace monetization strategy.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin
- Extensive track record developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes
- Experience developing consumer experiences using UI frameworks like React
- 2+ years of experience in Ad Tech or related platforms
- Demonstrated ability to deliver major features, system components, or deprecate existing functionality through technical and execution planning
- High-quality code that is easily understood and used by others
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to move from low-level language idioms to large system architecture
- Growth trajectory demonstrating mastery of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective global collaboration
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
