Engineering Manager

Bread Financial•Chadds Ford, PA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Every career journey is personal. That's why we empower you with the tools and support to create your own success story. Be challenged. Be heard. Be valued. Be you ... be here. Job Summary Bread Financial is a technology-driven payments company that partners with merchants and partners to personalize payment options for their customers. Bread integrates directly with merchants on their ecommerce site and gives them a single platform that lets them offer more ways to pay over time. Bread's full-funnel recommendation engine serves up the right options at the right time, empowering merchants to sell more, improve conversion, and lift average-order-value. Bread has enormous and engaging technical challenges. We need to verify online identity, predict fraud, and approve and price credit while providing a beautiful and frictionless consumer experience, all in real time. Our engineering team is seasoned, talented, agile, and quickly growing. We are looking to hire an Engineering Manager to join the current engineering team in continuing to build out our core platform, product, and teams.

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).

Nice To Haves

4+ years managing and/or leading engineering teams.
4+ years of experience with technical components utilized by the team.
Skills Agile Methodology DevOps JavaScript Microsoft Azure Functions Microsoft Azure SQL Full Stack Development Amazon Web Services (AWS) Flutter Software Development Kit (SDK)

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Bread Financial offers medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability) to eligible associates (regular full-time associates scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more) and their spouses/domestic partners, and child(ren) under the age of 26.
New associate elected coverage begins on date of hire (with the exception of disability coverage which has a 6-month waiting period).
Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents is available after a 180-day waiting period.
Hired associates can immediately enroll in Bread Financial’s 401(k) plan.
All associates receive 11 paid holidays.
Associates have discretion in managing their time away from work through the Flexible Time Off (FTO) program and may need to notify and receive approval from their manager prior to taking the time off.
Associates (except those located in Illinois) receive 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”) upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year.
Illinois associates receive 40 hours of Illinois PSST upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year and 40 hours of Illinois Paid Leave upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year.
Illinois Paid Leave must be used before associates in Illinois will be approved to take FTO.
Hired associates will be able to elect the purchase company stock during offering periods in June and December.
You will be eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.