Manager, Software Engineering (Marketing and Privacy Engineering)

About the role

What you’ll do

• Develop and support engineers across both pillars, and establish a shared operating model with clear priorities, ownership, decision-making, and ways of working.
• Partner with product managers and technical leads to translate priorities into engineering plans and deliver roadmaps.
• Guide work across Logged-Out Web, web experimentation, marketing integrations, attribution, measurement, consent, privacy experiences, and consumer data collection.
• Build cross-functional partnerships and clarify ownership for shared client-side and server-side tagging and measurement infrastructure.
• Include consent, cookies, tagging, and consumer data collection in solution design, balancing growth, measurement, and consumer privacy.
• Ensure reliable, scalable delivery while balancing engineering quality, customer needs, business priorities, speed, and risk.

What we’re looking for

• Experience managing and developing software engineers through coaching, candid feedback, and accountability.
• Strong software engineering foundation and technical judgment; consumer-facing or high-traffic web platform and complex integration experience is ideal.
• Experience turning product and business priorities into engineering plans and leading execution across technical domains and roadmaps.
• Ability to align stakeholders and explain complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sound judgment across ambiguity, competing priorities, dependencies, and risk, with attention to quality and operational excellence.
• Marketing technology, experimentation, analytics, attribution, instrumentation, or measurement experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, Australian Privacy Act requirements, and/or privacy-aware systems is a plus.

Compensation

• Canadian base pay range is CAD 181,000–241,000 per year; new employees typically start at the beginning of the pay range.
• Total compensation may include equity rewards, monthly stipends, and benefits.

Workplace

• Remote role open to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.
• Affirm is remote-first; some roles may require occasional office work, and new hires are invited to in-person onboarding.

Benefits

• Benefits include employer-paid health coverage, spending stipends, flexible time off, holiday calendars, and an employee stock purchase plan.