Engineering Manager

What We Do:  

Brightwell is a full-service FinTech company that provides thoughtful solutions and technology for sending money around the world while managing the complex regulatory requirements surrounding those transactions. Coupling technological innovation with strategic partnerships, Brightwell offers technology for businesses and individuals to expand their own portfolio into cross-border payments (including bank transfers, mobile wallets, or cash). Providing unmatched fraud and transaction monitoring backed by an in-house team of global payments experts, Brightwell offers options when it comes to managing and moving money around the globe.  

Who We Need:  

Due to product growth, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to take on the management of the continued development of an emerging product. As our Engineering Manager, you will be a highly visible internal leader working to inspire your team with clear direction, in alignment with the vision of the company. The right leader will be committed to performance, results, and operational excellence, implementing processes into logical units of work across the internal team and our partners all while acting as an actualizer of Brightwell’s vision. We are looking not only for a strategic, innovative thinker but someone who has proven they can execute, with both excellent leadership and communication skills.  

This is a hands-on keyboard role. Approximately 30% of your time will be spent writing code (node.js) with the remainder focused on people, projects, and processes. 

**This is a REMOTE position, based in the U.S. Quarterly travel to Atlanta will be required.** 

Eligible states of residence:  AL, CO, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MD, ME, MO, PA, TX, WI 

As a part of our selection process, we require all Brightwell candidates to complete a 10-minute survey which you can find here:  Culture Index Survey This confidential survey allows us to match your unique strengths with our open positions. 

Still with us? Here are the details…  

What You’ll Do:  

• Offer technical guidance and experience to the team including architectural decisions, code reviews, and best practices.  
• Jump into the code. Approximately 30% of your time will be spent hands-on coding. 
• Bring an entrepreneurial attitude and a “roll up your sleeves” mentality to evaluating competing issues and assessing the product.   
• Dive deep into the product with the team to gain a thorough understanding of the product and the underlying technology.  
• Work closely with teams across Brightwell to deliver projects on time and within scope, identifying risks and implementing strategies to mitigate them along the way.  
• Identify and successfully implement improvements in our engineering processes, tools, and architecture to enable us to deliver on our key initiatives.  
• Be an effective spokesperson and champion for the engineering team.  
• Influence continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, coaching, and metrics.   
• Stay on top of current industry trends and best practices and help to implement them within the team ensuring an optimized, stable, scalable, software engineering environment.  
• Take on other challenges as needed.  

As Engineering Manager, you have:  

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding experience and architectural design. 
• 3+ years of experience managing distributed software engineering teams.  
• Knowledge of native mobile (iOS and Android) development. 
• Experience with web (TypeScript and React) and cross platform development (React Native and Flutter). 
• A broad skill base covering business, technology, user experience, and leadership. You transition seamlessly between managerial activities and low-level technical details, at times dropping into code to help the team meet its objectives while also keeping your skill set sharp.  
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects spanning months of development.  
• Experience coaching and mentoring individuals at various stages of the experience spectrum ranging from leaders to individual contributors.  

What We’re Offering in Return:  

• Freedom: We trust you to do your thing and do it well.  
• Professional Development: We work with you to grow your skills and push you forward.  
• Entrepreneurship: We embrace new ideas and people who have the drive to see them through. If you are a doer, look no further!  
• Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, 401k, flexible spending accounts, parental leave, paid vacation, and more.  
• Random: Culture and company events (happy hours, CEO lunches, outings to Braves or United games, etc.).  

Brightwell is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.