Manager, Software Engineering – Code to Environments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Establish and advance the vision for Developer Environments and enhance inner-loop developer productivity at Affirm.

• Develop a technical strategy for your team over a year-long horizon, linking it to key, business-impacting initiatives.

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, nurturing a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership and stakeholders to synchronize Developer Environments priorities with wider product, platform, and reliability objectives.

• Take charge of the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of the systems that support Affirm’s ephemeral developer environments utilized in both development and CI scenarios.

• Enhance environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to boost developer velocity and reliability.

• Implement measurable enhancements to the developer experience (e.g., startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, resource utilization).

• Establish monitoring, alerting, incident response procedures, and operational playbooks to reduce downtime and developer impact.

• Partner with CI/CD and Test Platform teams to shorten feedback loops and ensure environments integrate seamlessly with build/test workflows.

• Collaborate closely across engineering to facilitate smooth adoption of Developer Environments tools and best practices.

• Identify developer challenges and spearhead initiatives to enhance productivity through tools, automation, and self-service.

• Cultivate a culture of quality and ownership within your team by setting and refining code review and design standards, advocating for them beyond your team through writing and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in engineering management (or equivalent leadership experience).

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, developer productivity, or related fields.

• Strong technical expertise in backend/infrastructure systems (Python or Kotlin preferred, but not mandatory) with the capacity to guide architecture and execution.

• Experience in building and managing cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes) while utilizing infrastructure-as-code methodologies.

• Practical knowledge of containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

• Proven track record of managing services with a high reliability standard (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening).

• Excellent communication and leadership abilities, with a history of mentoring and developing high-performing teams.

• Ability to navigate trade-offs between build vs. buy, speed vs. safety, and developer experience vs. operational constraints.

• This role requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a relevant 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.