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Lead the marketplace analytics by optimizing monetization strategies, monitoring performance, creating dashboards, and analyzing supply-demand dynamics. Collaborate cross-functionally to drive engagement and profitability.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead the Loans Lifecycle engineering organization, manage teams, drive technical roadmaps, and ensure compliance with financial regulations.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.

Lead cross-functional initiatives to remediate control deficiencies and improve month-end close. Serve as liaison between operational close teams and Product, Engineering, Financial Systems, and Technical Accounting. Develop project plans, translate requirements into reports, resolve complex accounting issues, and recommend scalable process improvements to ensure accurate, timely financial reporting.

Lead technical accounting research and manage end-to-end SEC external financial reporting (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K). Oversee policy development, SOX controls, audit support, disclosures, and mentorship of accounting staff while advising on complex transactions (M&A, debt/equity, securitization) and driving process improvements.

Lead the Orchestration Services team, managing engineering projects and guiding team members, while ensuring reliable, scalable data processing systems.

Support capital and funding operations for Affirm's loan portfolio, manage loan-related cash flows, build and automate reporting and reconciliations, coordinate internal and external audits, design scalable controls and governance, and lead monthly and quarterly investor financial reporting while working cross-functionally with Capital, Finance, Product, and Engineering.

Build and operate ML training and serving infrastructure by designing, developing, and launching backend systems. Collaborate across teams to decompose projects, support operations and on-call, create monitoring and metrics, perform code reviews, and contribute to developer velocity and platform reliability.

Lead and evolve Affirm's enterprise risk management program, strengthen governance and core risk programs (operational, third-party, business continuity), and build risk analytics and reporting. Advise senior leadership on risk for new products and strategic decisions, drive cross-functional alignment, and scale a high-performing risk team to support the company’s growth.

Use advanced analytics and ML to design and monitor credit risk models, optimize underwriting and credit strategies, partner with Engineering/Product/Compliance, oversee portfolio performance and regulatory alignment, and lead cross-functional initiatives to balance growth, compliance, and risk mitigation.