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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. Bread Financial has enormous and engaging technical challenges, including verifying online identity, predicting fraud, and approving price credit, while providing a frictionless consumer experience, all in real 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.

 

Essential Job Functions:

• 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, 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.
• 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.  Develop and maintain organizational strategies that support current and future workforce, business and financial needs.  
• 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.

Reports To:

Director, Engineering or Sr. Director, Engineering

Direct Reports:

2-4 FTE, plus contractor resources

Working Conditions/ Physical Requirements:

• Normal office environment.
• Some travel may be required.

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 and data stores such as Go, Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing systems intended for cloud deployments (AWS,k8s, docker).
• Experience with Golang/PostgreSQL/Redis/Kubernetes.
• Experience with Airflow or related technologies.
• Experience with front-end technologies (Javascript, React).
• Experience managing in an OKR and KPI environment.
• Experience with message-based, loosely coupled architectures (e.g. gRPC, Kafka and Redis)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of financial products
• Web APIs
• Server Side Programming
• Distributed System
• Agile

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

About Bread Financial®

At Bread Financial, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community, and be part of our award-winning culture. We’ve been consistently recognized as a best place to work nationally and in many markets and we’re proud to promote an environment where you feel appreciated, accepted, valued, and fulfilled—both personally and professionally. Bread Financial supports the overall wellness of our associates with a diverse suite of benefits and offers boundless opportunities for career development and non-traditional career progression.

Bread Financial® (NYSE: BFH) is a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions to millions of U.S. consumers. Our payment solutions deliver growth for some of the most recognized brands in travel & entertainment, health & beauty, technology, electronics, jewelry, home and specialty apparel through our co-brand and private label credit cards and pay-over-time products providing choice and value to our shared customers. Additionally, we offer Bread Financial general purpose credit cards and saving products that empower our customers and their passions for a better life.

 

Bread Financial proudly marks 30 years of success in 2026. To learn more about our global associates, our performance and our sustainability progress, visit breadfinancial.com or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.

• All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of credit and background checks.

• Bread Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Family:

Information Technology

Job Type:

Regular