Engineering Manager leading remote engineers building pharmacy, clinic, and patient - program technology. Managing technical delivery for Maisha Meds’ healthcare platform across Africa.
About the role
- Engineering Manager leading Account Management team at Affirm, a company reinventing credit to be fairer. Managing engineers and driving technical leadership in software projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of engineering managers and software engineers, supporting their growth and performance through regular feedback, career development, and coaching
- Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business
- Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success
- Remove roadblocks, manage team priorities, and maintain high team productivity and morale
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes and tools
- 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
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
- Own availability and performance of your team’s systems
- Occasionally contribute to hands-on technical work when needed, such as architecture discussions or mentoring on complex technical issues
- Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution
- Coach, develop, retain, and build individual growth plans for both engineering managers and individual contributors within the team
- Drive hiring and onboarding efforts to grow a diverse, high-performing team
Requirements
- Typically 6-8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers (or equivalent leadership experience).
- Experience delivering consumer-facing software and driving execution through ambiguity.
- Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale with technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
- Experience developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
- Technical judgement to guide architecture and quality decisions, and to hold a high bar on engineering practices.
- Hands-on technical leadership: Expectation to stay close to the code and architecture, including doing design/code reviews, pairing when useful, and contributing directly as needed to unblock delivery and maintain a high engineering bar.
- Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery
- Demonstrated ability to grow, lead, and support high-performing engineering teams
- A humble, team-first leader who actively contributes to a strong team culture and invests in the development of peers.
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
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