Bread Financial is a technology-driven payments company that partners with merchants to personalize payment options for their customers. The Engineering Manager will lead a team to enhance the core platform and ensure high-performance development practices while collaborating with various stakeholders.
Lead a team of highly engaged associates and contractors, ensuring that team meets or exceeds the 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. Provide peer coaching and feedback formally and informally. Request and utilize feedback to foster personal development.
Use recognized industry models and methodologies to develop, execute, and continuously improve development practices in collaboration with all major stakeholder and functional roles.
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. As necessary, work across the organization and function as Project Development Lead for enterprise-scale efforts. Develop and maintain organizational strategies that support current and future workforce, business, and financial needs.
Cultivate relationships across roles and organizations to maximize collaboration, partnership, and efficiency. Provide peer coaching and feedback formally and informally. Request and utilize feedback to foster personal development.
Expectation is to oversee at least two Golang microservices.
Support at least one business such as Credit Risk, Account Protection, Customer Care, etc. Maintain and manage one to two vendor relationships.
Qualification
Required
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).
Preferred
4+ years managing and/or leading engineering teams.
4+ years of experience with technical components utilized by the team.
Strong understanding of front-end development principles, including modern frameworks and languages.
Hands-on experience with React or similar JavaScript frameworks.
Familiarity with microservices architecture and how front-end applications interface with distributed back-end services.
Experience working with Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks to build scalable, maintainable user interfaces.
Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS (experience with Azure or GCP also acceptable).
Proven ability to collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define, interpret, and deliver on product requirements.
Working knowledge of front-end quality assurance best practices, with familiarity in tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or vTest for automated testing.
Benefits
Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability)
Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents
401(k) plan
11 paid holidays
Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”) upon hire
Ability to elect the purchase company stock during offering periods in June and December
Annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance
