Engineering Manager | Bankrate

Bankrate; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance Coverage

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Holiday Pay

401(k) with match

Employee Assistance Program

Parental bonding benefit

Job summary

Red Ventures seeks an experienced engineering leader to guide a small team responsible for delivering a modern TypeScript-based product stack. You will own day-to-day management, growth, and performance, while also contributing hands-on where leverage is greatest.

Expect close collaboration with Product and Design, with emphasis on delivery, quality, and regulatory compliance. You will drive sprint planning, risk-aware prioritization, and honest status updates across stakeholders, including

Qualifications

• Experience leading and managing a small engineering team or as a technical lead ready to formalize into people management.
• Hands-on developer with credibility to review and contribute to a modern TypeScript codebase.
• Strong people-leadership skills: coaching, feedback, performance management, and developing engineers.
• Solid delivery management: decomposing work, sequencing, risk, and transparent status updates.
• Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders; comfortable managing up and across.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and lean operating model; focus on leverage and automation.
• Hands-on within a TypeScript-based stack spanning API services and full-stack web apps.
• Working knowledge of AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation.
• Familiar with observability/APM and incident-response tooling; uphold quality standards in a regulated domain.
• Leverages AI tooling to increase throughput and reduce toil.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers (2–4) across levels, managing day-to-day performance, growth, and reviews.
• Own sprint-to-sprint delivery, planning, prioritization, sequencing, and communicating scope, timeline, and risks.
• Manage performance and development through 1:1s and constructive feedback.
• Contribute hands-on to the codebase where high leverage exists, while preserving growth opportunities for the team.
• Partner with Product, Design, and peer teams to align priorities and translate business goals into deliverables.
• Own team health, on-call, incident response, and maintain a high quality/compliance bar in a regulated domain.
• Foster a collaborative, learning-focused, inclusive culture.
• Champion AI-forward practices to boost throughput without sacrificing quality.
• Remove blockers and shield the team from noise to enable peak performance.

Job description

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of 2–4 engineers (junior through senior), owning their day‑to‑day management, growth, and performance.
• Own sprint‑to‑sprint delivery — planning, prioritization, sequencing, and honest communication of scope, timeline, and risk.
• Manage individual performance and development through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, career growth conversations, and the harder conversations when they’re needed.
• Contribute hands‑on to the codebase where it adds the most leverage — typically the ambiguous, load‑bearing, or unblocking work — while deliberately leaving well‑scoped growth opportunities to the team.
• Partner with Product, Design, and peer engineering teams to align on priorities, resolve dependencies, and translate business goals into deliverable work.
• Own team health and operational quality, including on‑call, incident response, and a real quality and compliance bar in a regulated, money‑touching domain.
• Cultivate a collaborative, continuous learning, and inclusive team culture.
• Champion high‑leverage, AI‑forward ways of working that raise the team’s throughput without compromising quality.
• Remove blockers, shield the team from unnecessary noise, and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience leading and managing a small engineering team, or a technical lead / player‑coach ready to formalize into people management.
• Still technically hands‑on and credible — able to review, contribute to, and make sound decisions within a modern TypeScript codebase.
• Strong people‑leadership skills: coaching, feedback, performance management, and developing engineers across levels.
• Solid delivery management: decomposing work, sequencing, managing dependencies and risk, and communicating status honestly.
• Clear communicator with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders; comfortable managing up, across, and outward.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a lean operating model; biases toward leverage and automation over headcount.
• Remains hands‑on within our primarily TypeScript‑based stack spanning API services and full‑stack web applications.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS), infrastructure‑as‑code, and CI/CD automation.
• Familiar with observability/APM and incident‑response tooling; upholds operational and quality standards for a regulated, money‑touching product.
• Leverages AI tooling to increase team throughput and reduce toil.

Compensation

Total Cash Compensation Range: $160,000 – $210,000 per year.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long‑Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): Full‑time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, increasing to 25 days after five years of service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.

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