Hybrid Engineering Manager

at Bread Financial

• Job title: Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $133,500 - $241,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Java, Postgres, Redis, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Columbus, United States

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading a team in developing scalable solutions for a tech-driven payments company. Overseeing engineering projects and managing cross-functional collaborations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of highly engaged associates and contractors, ensuring that team meets or exceeds defined role expectations
• Ensure that direct reports understand role expectations
• Provide development to a team with ongoing coaching and feedback, performance management, career development and administrative support
• Coaching and mentoring development staff to enable them to reach their peak potential and cultivate high-performing teams
• Actively participate in the development of technology and integrated application roadmaps
• Utilize the software development lifecycle to implement technology solutions that create and enhance applications
• Continuously improve applications and processes with a focus on quality, efficiency, and user experience
• Develop and maintain organizational strategies that support current and future workforce, business, and financial needs
• Appropriately manage resource capacity and demand to meet business delivery and production support expectations
• Act in a leadership role to provide guidance to the development team and act as a liaison for multiple areas of the business and external clients
• Cultivate relationships across roles and organizations to maximize collaboration, partnership, and efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent, relevant work experience
• 2+ years of experience managing and/or leading engineering teams
• 2+ years experience with technical components utilized by the team (building scalable and reliable distributed systems, public web APIs and server-side languages and data stores such as Go, Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc)
• 4+ years managing and/or leading engineering teams (preferred)
• 4+ years of experience with technical components utilized by the team (preferred)
• Experience with compliance and governance frameworks, especially related to credit risk and fraud (preferred)

Benefits

• medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits
• six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents
• ability to enroll in Bread Financial’s 401(k) plan
• 11 paid holidays
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”) upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year
• associates able to elect the purchase of company stock during offering periods in June and December
• annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance