Engineering Director, Ecosystem
VantaFull Time
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Candidates should possess a history of delivering impactful results, demonstrating a clear bias for action, taking ownership of strategic objectives, and driving them to completion through ambiguity, significant experience as an engineering leader including managing other managers, a track record of attracting senior, diverse talent and creating a culture of care and growth, deep technical credibility to command respect from a senior engineering team and drive accountability for architecture, system health, and software quality, and strong operational and business acumen with experience in organizational design and prioritizing investments for maximum leverage.
The Director of Engineering, Servicing Platforms will own a portfolio of teams and products aligned with key company objectives, ensuring inspection and delivery of results through their management team, develop and articulate a multi-year strategy for their organization, proactively charging the territory and creating alignment with partners in Product, Design, and across the business to ensure their vision drives company-level goals, build their team and the next generation of leaders at Affirm with a people-first approach, driving the full talent lifecycle and fostering a culture of care, psychological safety, and continuous growth, ensure the technical health of their organization's systems, championing a culture that balances operational excellence with innovation, and being accountable for service quality and availability, proactively manage and cultivate the health of their organization, ensuring that delivering results does not compromise their team's long-term well-being, and act as a key voice in the broader engineering organization, building strong, collaborative relationships with fellow leaders to resolve complex misalignments and influence the company's technical direction.
Provides buy now, pay later financing solutions
Affirm offers point-of-sale financing solutions as an alternative to traditional credit cards. It allows consumers to make purchases and pay over time through installment plans, often without hidden fees or deferred interest. Affirm partners with merchants to integrate its payment solutions into online and in-store shopping experiences, using user-friendly plugins and APIs. The company generates revenue from interest and fees on loans to consumers, as well as fees from merchants for offering its financing options. Affirm also provides a merchant dashboard for transaction processing and promotional tools to help businesses market these financing options effectively. The goal of Affirm is to empower consumers with flexible payment options while providing value to merchants in the e-commerce and retail markets.