Engineering Manager

Brillio; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Brillio in Seattle seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of full‑stack engineers delivering scalable, cloud‑native applications aligned to our Golden Path stack. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, balancing delivery, quality, and growth of your team.

You will hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent while partnering with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to ship high‑impact software.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years in a people-management or engineering leadership role
• Hands-on with the Golden Path stack and cloud-native AWS

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a hybrid engineering team — full-time engineers and contractors — hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
• Partner with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into clear, phased technical roadmaps
• Drive engineering execution across the full stack (React, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Node.js, AWS), ensuring quality, scalability, and reliability — including work delivered by contractors
• Establish and champion engineering excellence — code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD — and track delivery health through metrics like PR cycle time, deployment frequency, and defect rates
• Own operational support for your team's systems: logging, on‑call rotations, incident response, and postmortems
• Ensure your team's work meets security and compliance standards — data handling and access controls — across both FTE and contractor deliverables
• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career coaching, fostering a culture of accountability, growth, and technical excellence
• Report on team health, delivery metrics, and business impact to senior leadership

Skills

ReactJS

TypeScript

Go

Java

Python

Node.js

AWS

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Stakeholder management

Hiring & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

CI/CD

Git

Microservices

Job description

Brillio is a leading digital technology consulting and services company that helps enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journey through innovative engineering, cloud, data, AI and customer experience solutions through a team of 5,000+ experts technologically elevating 200 companies globally. Brillio partners with global enterprises to build modern, scalable, and business-driven technology platforms that deliver measurable outcomes and competitive advantage. With a strong culture centered around Customer Success, We Care, Entrepreneurial Mindset, and Excellence, Brillio empowers organizations to drive innovation, improve operational efficiency, and create exceptional customer experiences. Through its highly skilled technology workforce and deep domain expertise, Brillio delivers impactful solutions across Product Engineering, Data & AI, Digital Experience, Cloud, and Infrastructure services.

Find your passion and build your career with Brillio.

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Seattle, WA

Role Summary

Seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of full-stack engineers delivering scalable, cloud-native applications aligned to our Golden Path engineering stack. This role blends hands‑on technical leadership with people management, balancing delivery execution, engineering quality, and the growth of your team.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical judgment with proven people-management skills, enabling them to hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent while partnering closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact software. Success in this role requires a bias for execution, strong communication, and a passion for building high‑performing engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a hybrid engineering team — full-time engineers and contractors — owning hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development across Junior to Senior levels.
• Partner with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into clear, phased technical roadmaps, balancing competing priorities across teams.
• Drive engineering execution across the full stack (React, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Node.js, AWS), ensuring quality, scalability, and reliability — including work delivered by contractors.
• Establish and champion engineering excellence — code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD — and track delivery health through metrics like PR cycle time, deployment frequency, and defect rates.
• Own operational support for your team's systems: logging, on‑call rotations, incident response, and postmortems to prevent recurring failures.
• Ensure your team's work meets security and compliance standards — data handling and access controls — across both FTE and contractor deliverables.
• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career coaching, fostering a culture of accountability, growth, and technical excellence.
• Report on team health, delivery metrics, and business impact to senior leadership.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a people‑management or engineering leadership role.
• Proven track record hiring, managing, and growing high-performing engineering teams, including experience directing and reviewing work from external contractors or agency partners alongside full-time staff.
• Strong hands‑on background across the Golden Path stack (ReactJS, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Node.js), with the technical credibility to guide architecture and code‑quality decisions.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS), microservices, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
• Working knowledge of data security and compliance practices — access controls, data privacy — sufficient to guide a team's system and integration design decisions.
• Experience driving Agile/Scrum delivery, sprint planning, and backlog management — protecting the team from over‑commitment and making resource trade‑offs to ship predictably.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to translate technical constraints and delivery risk into clear terms for both technical and non‑technical business stakeholders.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience managing distributed or remote engineering teams across time zones.
• Familiarity with GenAI/LLM application development — prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), agent orchestration, or vector databases.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted engineering tools such as Gemini, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.
• Experience in real estate technology, marketplace platforms, or customer‑facing SaaS products.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or similar.
• Prior experience as a Staff or Lead Engineer before transitioning into engineering management.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration

Brillio is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, colour, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.