Affirm

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Consumer ML)

28 April 2024
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Deadline date:
£464000 / year

Job Description

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

This team delivers Machine Learning and Search solutions to build resilient and scalable consumer products. This team has two charters of powering ML-optimized user experiences across our consumer surfaces and building a platform for organized, consistent and relevant search results to consumers.

What you’ll do

  • Collaborate with our Product, Analytics, and Operations teams to set and execute Consumer ML and Search platform strategy

  • Recruit and hire senior engineers

  • Coach, develop, retain, and provide feedback to team members

  • Organize the Consumer Search and ML team as necessary to fulfill its mandate

  • Establish OKRs and critical metrics to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success

  • Create a long term technical roadmap that enables the team to keep up with our fast growing business

  • Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution

What we look for

  • Passionate: Passionate about Affirm’s Mission: “Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives”

  • Technical: Solid engineering fundamentals and real world experience building scalable engineering and ml solutions

  • Collaborative: Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and business partners

  • Humble: You lead with the humility and self-awareness needed to navigate challenging situations

  • User Focused: Cares about the details in the user experience

  • Experience: 3+ years managing high performing engineering teams

 Compensation and Benefits 

We offer a competitive package, with some highlights listed below.  However, the given figures are not guaranteed compensation ranges; rather, they are unbinding, approximate indications of what the salary may be for your awareness. The actual salary may be less than the lower range or greater than the upper range, depending on skills and experience. No employee is guaranteed salary at the amount of the lower range.

  • Targeted Gross Monthly Salary: 25,792 – 32,233 PLN
  • Type of employment: Contract of Employment
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
  • Generous time off policies 
  • Away Days – wellness days to take off work and recharge
  • Learning & Development programs
  • Parental leave
  • Robust health benefits
  • Employee Resource & Community Groups
  • This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
  • This role has a potential sign-on bonus of up to 10% of your base salary. Eligibility is determined at the offer stage.

Pay Grade – POL31

Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.

POL base pay range per year:

Min: 309,500 PLN

Mid: 386,800 PLN

Max: 464,200 PLN

Location – Remote Poland

*The majority of our roles can be located anywhere in Poland.
**This job description is not a contractual document, and is not intended to have binding force.**

#LI-Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: 

  • 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

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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