Engineering Manager

Bread Financial; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Bread Financial in Bengaluru is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a cross-functional team in an Agile environment, addressing business challenges through secure, scalable software solutions. You will oversee design, development, testing, configuration, and deployment of high-quality software, and create cloud environments to support fintech systems.

The role requires expertise across full stack development, frontend, backend, and UI/UX, along with testing strategies, and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor s Degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8-10 years of work experience across Full Stack, Frontend, Backend and UI/UX.
• 3-5 years leading projects with mentoring or coaching.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end SDLC to deliver scalable software solutions.
• Lead unit tests, code reviews, and sizing of work with stakeholders.
• Guide design and development aligned to business objectives and timelines.
• Improve system performance, enforce testing practices, and resolve defects.
• Drive UI/UX improvements and collaboration across teams.
• Foster a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture with coaching.
• Provide technical supervision and on-call support as needed.

Skills

Agile Methodology

DevOps

Java

JavaScript

Full Stack Development

Angular

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure Functions

Azure SQL Database

Microsoft Azure

Job description

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Job Summary

Manager, Software Engineering is responsible for leading a cross-functional team in an Agile environment to address business challenges through effective software solutions. Key responsibilities include overseeing the design, development, testing, configuration, and deployment of high-quality software solutions, developing test strategies, and creating cloud environments. Manages full stack development projects across the SDLC, improving frontend, backend, and UI/UX components. The role ensures that all software delivery is secure, reliable, and highly automated, thus supporting seamless and efficient financial technology systems.

Essential Job Functions

• Oversee the software development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of scalable solutions. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into detailed technical designs. Guide the team in developing design specifications, including user interface layouts, and ensure the delivery of functional, high-quality components - (15%)
• Lead the creation and execution of unit tests and testing to proactively identify and resolve issues. Facilitate code reviews to identify and remediate defects, ensuring adherence to coding standards. Guide the team in estimating and sizing work efforts based on high-level requirements, and drive continuous application improvements for quality, efficiency, and user experience - (15%)
• Guide the design and development of software solutions in line with business objectives. Manage the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring quality and timely delivery. Provide technical leadership and oversee code reviews to uphold software integrity, while coordinating with stakeholders to align project goals - (15%)
• Direct efforts to improve system performance using modern frameworks. Oversee code reviews and enforce best testing practices. Lead the team of software engineers in resolving system defects and bottlenecks, ensuring reliability and scalability, while setting performance standards and objectives - (15%)
• Lead the strategy for UI/UX enhancements to create intuitive interfaces. Collaborate across teams to improve user experience, integrating feedback to refine usability and align with business needs - (15%)
• Build and maintain strong relationships across engineering, product, and business teams to enhance collaboration and efficiency. Provide coaching and constructive feedback to team members, both formally and informally. Foster a high-performing, inclusive environment by motivating the team to achieve business goals. Use feedback to drive personal and team development - (15%)
• Demonstrate proficiency in at least two programming languages, ideally three and contribute to the development or maintenance of multiple applications. Provide technical supervision and coaching to team while showcasing strong business knowledge in financial technology and payments domains. Provide technical on-call support and respond to incident inquiries as needed. - (10%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor s Degree computer science or related field of study; or equivalent experience
• 8-10 years of work experience in related field (Software Development Life Cycle across Full Stack, Frontend and Backend Development and UI / UX engineering)
• 3-5 years leading projects, mentoring and/or coaching experience, demonstrated subject matter expert in software engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience in related field (Software Development Life Cycle across Full Stack, Frontend and Backend Development and UI / UX engineering)
• 5+ years leading projects, mentoring and/or coaching experience, demonstrated subject matter expert in software engineering

Skills

• Agile Methodology
• DevOps
• Java (Programming Language)
• JavaScript
• Microsoft Azure Functions
• Microsoft Azure SQL Database
• Full Stack Development
• Angular

Reports To Senior Manager and above

Direct Reports 6 - 10

Work Environment

• Normal office environment, hybrid.

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.

Job Type

Regular