Remote Manager, Software Engineering Job in Palo Alto, CA Affirm

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years managing high performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years in software development roles with proficiency in backend programming languages like Python and front end frameworks like React or AngularJs.
• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS.
• Experience with data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes and Airflow.
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
• Prior experience in a fintech or in the financial industry in general a plus.
• A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team.

What the job involves

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Analytics teams to implement business critical features enabling new user experiences across the entire stack (mobile, web, backend).
• Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business.
• Coach, develop, retain, and provide build individual growth plan for the team members.
• Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team's direction and measure its success.
• Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
• Own availability and performance of your team’s systems.
• Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution.
• Actively participate in making their team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
• Participate in hiring engineers and growing talent.

Application process

• Submit Application