Affirm
Manager, Software Engineering (Marketplace Performance)
$204K–$290K
Remote US · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in backend systems; 2+ years in Ad Tech or related platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the Marketplace Performance engineering team in setting technical strategy and delivering systems that support Affirm’s marketplace monetization and ads platform.
What you'll do
- Set the team’s technical strategy and guide business-impacting projects across the product development lifecycle.
- Own operational readiness, availability, and quality standards, including monitoring, on-call processes, testing, and code and design reviews.
- Develop team members through feedback and guidance, and collaborate with product, design, analytics, and business partners.
What they ask for
- 8+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Extensive experience developing highly available distributed systems.
- Experience developing consumer experiences with UI frameworks such as React.
- 2+ years of experience working in Ad Tech or related platforms.
Pay
$230,000 - $290,000 USD per year, base salary (USA: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT); $204,000 - $264,000 USD per year, base salary (USA: all other U.S. states)
Tools
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, React
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