Engineering Manager

Apply; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible PTO

401k Plan

Parental Leave

Wellhub fitness & Headspace Care

WiFi & cell reimbursements

Learning & Development reimbursement

Bright future at Brigit

High-growth culture

Startup environment

Job summary

Brigit is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams building critical financial health products and scalable systems. You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps, and drive architectural decisions with cross-functional partners to deliver impact at scale.

You will partner with Product, Design, Data, and Ops to balance speed and reliability, while fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture across our New York-area teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in management in high-growth environments.
• Proven track record shipping complex backend/platform architectures.
• Experience guiding greenfield and platform transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead, empower, and grow a diverse engineering team through regular 1:1s and career planning.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Business teams to define roadmaps and technical scope.
• Drive sprint planning, capacity allocation, and architectural oversight for reliable delivery.
• Guide architectural decisions and assess design docs for security, testability, and scale.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Backend Architecture

Mentoring

Cross-functional Collaboration

Security & Scalability

Tools

Java

GCP

React Native

Job description

Hi, we're Brigit! A holistic financial health company helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future. With a business model that is aligned with our customers, we create transparent, fair, and simple financial products that put money back in the hands of our members, help them spend wisely, avoid unfair fees and build their credit quickly. If autonomy, ownership, and having meaningful input at the company you work for is important to you, come join our growing team!

Brigit is doing innovative and exciting work, but don’t just take our word for it, our work is being recognized by others:

• Built In's 2026 Best Midsize Companies to Work For in New York City

• Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work For In New York City

• Built In’s 2024 & 2025 Best Startups to Work For In the U.S.

• Built In’s 2023 - 2025 Best Startups to Work For In New York City

• Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022

• Business Insider’s Most Promising Consumer Startups 2022

• Forbes Fintech 50 2022

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled and mission-driven Engineering Manager to join Brigit’s engineering leadership team. Our financial health platform has tremendous traction in helping low-income Americans who struggle to make ends meet. In this role, you will lead high-performing engineering teams building critical products, platform integrations, and scalable financial systems.

You will work closely with a cross-functional team (Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Business Operations) to ship innovative product experiences at scale—ranging from optimizing established core features to leading 0-to-1 initiatives. You’ll be responsible for bringing out the best in your engineers, mentoring talent, establishing efficient team processes, and creating an inclusive environment where people do their best work.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead, empower, and grow a diverse team of software engineers across varying seniority levels through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, and structured career planning.

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Business counterparts to define product roadmaps, scope technical initiatives, and balance business priorities with engineering speed.

• Drive technical execution across sprint planning, capacity allocation, and architectural oversight to ensure timely, reliable delivery.

• Guide architectural decisions and evaluate technical design docs for complex systems, ensuring high standards for security, testability, monitoring, and scale.

• Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement, supporting both complex platform scaling and fast-paced 0-to-1 product builds.

What you have

• 8+ years of total software engineering experience, including 3+ years directly managing and mentoring engineering teams in high-growth environments.

• Proven track record of building, shipping, and maintaining complex backend or platform architectures over multiple release cycles.

• Experience leading teams through technical ambiguity, including leading greenfield (0-to-1) product builds or core platform transformations.

• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with experience regularly collaborating with product managers, design leads, and business stakeholders.

• Passion for fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.

• Tech Stack: We primarily use Java running in GCP on the backend, and React Native on the mobile frontend. Experience with this stack is a plus, but strong engineering leadership fundamentals and architectural judgment matter most.

Compensation

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $180,000 - $230,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits for which an individual may be eligible (other benefits listed below). The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Our Benefits and Team

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Flexible PTO Policy

• 401k plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Physical and mental wellbeing benefits including Wellhub for access to virtual workouts and discounted gym memberships, and Headspace Care for covered virtual therapy sessions and unlimited on demand health support

• Monthly reimbursements to use against wifi and cell phone bills

• Annual reimbursement for Learning & Development

• Help hard working Americans build a brighter financial future

• High-growth company

• A dynamic, flexible and collaborative start-up work environment with a highly talented team

Brigit is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy (including breast feeding and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email [e-mail].

Disclosures:

• For information on our data privacy policies, see the Brigit California Personnel Privacy Policy.

• Brigit uses E-Verify for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.