Engineering Manager
First seen by Alion on Aug 14, 2026.
Job Summary :
Bread Financial is a technology-driven payments company that partners with clients to personalize payment options for their customers. Bread Financial integrates directly with merchants on their ecommerce site and gives them a single platform that lets them offer more ways to pay over time. Our engineering team is seasoned, talented, agile, and quickly growing. The Manager, Software Engineering, will join the team in continuing to build out our core platform, product, and teams.
Talent Management :
- Lead a team of highly engaged associates and contractors, ensuring the team meets or exceeds the defined role expectations.
- Provide development and ongoing coaching and feedback, performance management, career development and administrative support.
- Coach and mentor 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.
Process and Technology :
- Oversee at least two Golang microservices.
- Use recognized industry models and methodologies to develop, execute, and continuously improve development practices.
- 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.
Strategic Planning :
- 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.
Leadership :
- Cultivate relationships across roles and lanes of business to maximize collaboration, partnership, and efficiency.
- 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.
- Partner across the organization and function as project development lead for enterprise-scale efforts.
Business Support and Management :
- Support at least one business such as Credit Risk, Account Protection, Customer Care, etc.
- Maintain and manage one to two vendor relationships.
Tech Stack : Go, Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Kafka.
Minimum Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related field.
- 5+ years of experience leading a team of engineers in a professional setting.
- 2+ years of experience with technical components utilized by the team (building scalable and reliable distributed systems, public web APIs and server-side languages).
Skills
Backend Architecture, Engineering Management, Golang, Distributed Systems, Microservices Architecture, Technical Architect