Software Engineering Manager

Job Description

Bread is a technology company that aims to transform the way the world shops online. We build tools, technologies and APIs that allow e-commerce merchants to integrate installment loan financing and other alternative payment products anywhere in their customers’ shopping journey. Bread was started in 2014 by financial technology veterans, and has experienced explosive growth to date. We’re backed by top investors including Menlo Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kinnevik, among others.

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.

You will be leading our Merchant team, which builds out our post-checkout API, tools, and data solutions which allow Bread’s merchants and partners to operate the Bread platform effectively, at scale, and reliably. This includes a mix of high volume real time transaction management API’s as well as big data ETL pipelines to deliver value added metrics to our merchants. In addition to exposing API’s which allow merchants to manage and access this data, they also own a value added Merchant Portal that merchant’s can log into to manage their account. The Merchant team also works closely with solutions engineering to make sure we are delivering the best API’s such that various platforms (Shopify, Magento, etc) can use Bread effectively with just the click of a button.

This team is a full stack team, with both backend and front end components.

Your role at Bread:

• Manage a product engineering team, including professional development and leading them towards product delivery and success
• Work with senior engineering leadership to guide and influence the direction of the engineering organization
• Work actively with product to both understand and help develop the engineering roadmap
• Be accountable for leading design and implementation of new features and iterations of our core platform
• Block and tackle, when necessary, for engineers on your team
• Be data oriented and focused on what it takes to deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient products and technologies

What we are looking for:

Must Have:

• Experience managing and/or leading engineering teams
• Expertise building scalable, reliable distributed systems
• Expert knowledge of server-side languages and data stores (such as: Go, Java, Rust, Postgresql, Redis, etc)
• Experience with public web APIs
• A passion for product, engineering and technology

Nice to have:

• Proven experience managing/leading a 4+ person team
• Experience developing systems intended for cloud deployments (AWS,k8s, docker)
• Experience with Go/PostgreSQL/Rabbit/Redis
• Experience with front-end technologies (Javascript, React)
• Experience managing in an OKR and KPI environment
• Experience on agile teams
• Experience with message-based, loosely coupled architectures (we use gRPC, RabbitMQ and Redis)
• Knowledge of financial products
• You enable your team at every chance you get

Engineers at Bread also get the opportunity to participate in “20%” time through Working Groups! Working Groups are quarterly teams of 4 to 6 engineers who set out to tackle a specific engineering initiative outside of their core engineering team. Working Groups have included ones for Logging Architecture, Internal Authentication, Community & Blogs, Testing Infrastructure, and Monitoring. Groups meet every Friday to plan and own their roadmap and implement their features. All engineers get a chance to be in one of these groups and over time potentially lead a group for that quarter. It's another opportunity as an engineer at Bread to have impact across the entire organization!

If this is you, submit a cover letter and resume to apply!