Engineering Manager

Ready to make a meaningful impact?

At Brighton Jones, we’re a purpose-driven, client-focused team committed to helping individuals live richer lives. As one of the largest RIAs in the nation, we’ve built a culture of continuous growth, collaboration, and community-recognized with 15 consecutive “Best Places to Work” awards including Inc.com’s 2025 list, as well as national honors for community impact.

We lead the industry in aligning wealth, passion, and purpose to help our clients thrive. With over $30 billion in assets under advisement, 300+ teammates nationwide, and a dynamic, team-based approach, we’re growing fast-and we’re looking for driven, curious individuals to join our #OneTeam.

As the Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a small team, currently two engineers and growing, while staying close to the technical work. We’re shifting our integration work toward a development-focused engineering practice, and you’ll lead that transition. You’re technically strong, make clear tradeoffs, and help the team deliver consistently through structure without adding unnecessary process.

Required for application: take our Values in Action Self-Assessment to see how our values align!

What You'll Do:

Lead the Team and Improve Delivery:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a small team of engineers, including hiring and onboarding future teammates.
• Own sprint planning, code reviews, technical standards, and day-to-day delivery, and help build a healthy engineering culture.
• Partner with Business, Data & Systems, and Operations to set priorities and deliver work for technical and business stakeholders like our advisors.

Set Technical Direction and Modernize the Platform

• Set technical direction for the tools data team, advisors, and other business user rely on, including SQL databases, custodian data synchronization, and other downstream advisor systems.

• Modernize our integration platform and patterns, partnering with the Cloud & Platform Engineer on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation.

• Make build-versus-buy calls and clearly explain the tradeoffs to technical and business partners.

Stay Hands-On Where It Matters

• Write code and contribute directly to architecture, complex problem solving, and key builds.

• Simplify systems, reduce technical debt, and improve reliability and security.

• Build with security, data protection, and recordkeeping in mind. We’re a registered investment adviser, so these requirements shape how we design and ship.

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in technical leadership.

• Strong hands-on depth in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and cloud-native services.

• Experience building integrations with APIs, event-driven architecture, and ETL/ELT patterns.

• Hands-on cloud experience. Azure is preferred since we’re aligned with Microsoft 365, but AWS or GCP is also relevant.

• Experience leading small teams in shared-service environments that support multiple internal customers and competing priorities.

• Clear communicator who can explain tradeoffs to technical and business partners and make sound decisions when requirements aren’t fully defined.

• Nice to have: Salesforce experience (Financial Services Cloud, Apex, or integrations) or AI-enabled application work (LLM integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, or agent frameworks).

• This role is an in-office, full-time, and exempt position. We are a work from office culture with a lot of flexibility.

The Opportunity:

• Build a modern engineering function on a strong foundation

• Direct influence on AI, automation, and digital worker initiatives

• Hands-on technical leadership with executive visibility

• Greenfield to shape engineering practices, standards, and culture

• Strong growth runway as the function scales

Compensation:

• Targeted base salary range is $150,000 - $175,000 per year.

Ownership & Financial Wellbeing

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 3% of annual compensation
• Equity ownership opportunities for every employee
• New Business Incentive Program
• Generous employee referral bonus
• Cell phone data reimbursement
• Financial planning services discount for employees and immediate family members

Time & Flexibility

• Minimum 3 weeks PTO starting Day 1
• Winter Break, Summer Friday flex-days, and 10 paid holidays
• Unlimited Volunteer Time Off plus company grant matching
• Heavily subsidized transit

Growth & Development

• 100% reimbursement for required training, certifications, licensing, and dues
• Personal career development plans
• Richer Life Business Partner (coaching for all employees)
• Mindful Emotional & Social Intelligence training
• Annual professional & personal wellbeing stipend

Connection & Community

• Quarterly team-building events
• Regular social events
• Employee-led book clubs, committees, and affinity groups

Family & Milestones

• Paid Parental leave (13 weeks for birthing parent and 6 weeks for non-birthing parent)
• Adoption benefits
• Anniversary milestone celebrations, including a 3-month paid sabbatical at 10 years