Affirm
Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Repayment & Recovery)
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Eligible countries37 accepted countries
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Role overview
Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Repayment & Recovery)
Requirements and responsibilities
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- Set the technical strategy for your team, and help your engineers tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects across repayment, collections, recovery, and loss mitigation.
- Act as a force-multiplier through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
- Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by partnering with product management, design, analytics, and risk to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
- Develop talent by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
- Bachelor's in a technical field with 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years managing engineers.
- A background in financial services, specifically in credit / lending, with hands-on experience in post-origination modeling — collections, repayment, recovery, loss mitigation, early-warning or behavioural risk, or similar.
- Proficiency in machine learning with experience in areas including tree-based models, transformers, deep learning, and agentic ML.
- Strong engineering skills and the ability to provide hands-on technical leadership while working with our code and architecture.
- You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- 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
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