Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brightwell is a company focused on making global money movement faster, safer, and more accessible through technology. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead an API team responsible for building and maintaining core services for their payment platform, balancing hands-on coding with team leadership.
Responsibilities
- Write, review, and ship production C# and .NET code daily. This is not a “review from the sideline” role; you’re in the codebase alongside your team
- Lead the adoption of AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), coaching your team on effective use while establishing quality gates for AI-generated code through rigorous planning and review
- Own the technical direction for your team’s domain within Brightwell’s API platform, partnering closely with the peer API Engineering Manager to ensure alignment and consistency across both API teams
- Drive API architecture decisions including patterns for versioning, error handling, authentication, and scalability
- Lead incident response and resolution for critical API and integration issues
- Dive deep into the product with the team to gain a thorough understanding of the platform and the underlying technology
- Lead a team of 4 engineers developing API solutions in C#, ASP.NET Core, and Azure
- Partner with Product and other Engineering Managers to align priorities, coordinate dependencies, and deliver projects on time, identifying risks early and making pragmatic trade-offs to keep your team focused
- Conduct 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
- Identify and implement improvements in engineering processes, tools, and architecture to enable delivery on key initiatives
- Grow your team’s capabilities through hands-on mentoring, code-level coaching, and clear engineering standards
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding experience and architectural design
- 2+ years of experience managing distributed software engineering teams
- Strong C# and .NET experience, including ASP.NET Core Web APIs
- Experience with relational databases and Entity Framework (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
- Strong Azure experience (Functions, Queues, Event Hub, Service Bus, App Services, and related services)
- Proven ability to deliver complex projects spanning months of development
- Experience coaching and mentoring individuals at various levels of experience, from leaders to individual contributors
- Comfortable moving between a 1-on-1 conversation and a pull request review in the same hour while doing both well
- Experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate engineering workflows and improve team productivity
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI, cross-border payments)
- Experience designing and maintaining partner-facing APIs and integration patterns
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems
- CI/CD expertise with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) with match, flexible spending accounts, paid parental leave, paid vacation, and more
- Remote work with benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid parental leave, and PTO
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