Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and deliver quarterly goals for a backend team; guide engineers through ambiguous problems; collaborate with product, design, and analytics; identify and resolve project and technical issues; ensure operational availability and on-call readiness; set code and design quality standards; and mentor and develop team members.

Lead and build the Affirm Bank accounting function during bank formation. Oversee GL operations, regulatory and monthly financial reporting, audit coordination, process automation, cash management, and financial analysis. Manage and recruit the accounting team and partner cross-functionally to integrate bank accounting into Affirm's systems while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Support risk and analytics efforts by performing SQL/Python-based analysis, monitoring portfolio health, building scalable reports, collaborating cross-functionally, and integrating AI tools to surface insights that inform product, risk, and growth decisions.

Responsible for leading a team of engineers, supporting product development, identifying technical issues, and ensuring high-quality code delivery in backend systems at scale.

Support Affirm's revenue growth by partnering with cross-functional leaders, building financial models, analyzing performance metrics, and delivering analytics for executives.

Serve as strategic partner to the SVP of Product to scale product leadership: run leadership rhythms, own headcount and budget planning, drive AI enablement, curate external product narrative, manage org-health metrics, and resolve cross-functional structural issues to increase decision speed and org effectiveness.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Lead and scale Account Management for large enterprise merchant partners: set strategy, build and coach a high-performing team, drive retention/growth and product adoption, manage executive relationships, resolve complex issues, and partner cross-functionally to deliver measurable commercial outcomes.

Lead strategy and execution for Affirm's Shopping & Offers consumer surfaces (Home, Search, Profile). Define vision, own roadmaps, drive experiments and funnel analysis, partner cross-functionally, and hire and scale a high-performing product management team to improve conversion, engagement, and revenue.