Software Engineering Manager

Broadridge Financial Solutions; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Eligible

Job summary

Broadridge Financial Solutions seeks a Technical Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for BRx Platform capabilities, guiding engineering teams through design, implementation, and quality across services. The role emphasizes scalable, reusable, and secure platform solutions with close collaboration across product, architecture, and operations.

This senior, IC-level position requires architectural influence, mentoring, and delivery accountability while partnering with stakeholders to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership in design and delivery.
• Hands-on Java/Spring/Kafka/Camunda/PostgreSQL/Redis preferred.
• Experience with distributed systems, API design, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native practices.
• Ability to own technical design, mentor engineers, and lead reviews.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for BRx Platform capabilities and shared services.
• Own design, implementation approach, and engineering quality across platforms.
• Lead technical reviews, establish architecture decisions, and ensure security/operational standards.
• Mentor engineers and SDETs, support production reliability and incident response.

Skills

Java

Spring

Kafka

Camunda

PostgreSQL

Redis

Distributed systems

API design

Job description

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.Role SummaryThe Technical Lead will provide hands-on technical leadership for core capabilities and foundational frameworks supporting the strategic BRx Platform. BRx is a modernization initiative focused on simplifying client integration with multiple backend engines, aligning platform services to business capabilities, and enabling scalable, reusable, and resilient technology solutions across the enterprise.This role combines architecture, software engineering, and delivery leadership. The Technical Lead will guide engineering teams through solution design and implementation, establish practical engineering standards, and work closely with product, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable platform capabilities. This is a senior individual-contributor role with technical leadership and mentorship responsibilities rather than direct people-management accountability.Key ResponsibilitiesProvide technical leadership for one or more engineering teams delivering BRx Platform capabilities, shared frameworks, reusable services, and integration patterns.Own the technical design, implementation approach, and engineering quality of platform services that simplify client integration across multiple backend engines.Translate business and platform requirements into scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.Partner with product management, architecture, business stakeholders, and dependent engineering teams to refine requirements, identify dependencies, and develop achievable delivery plans.Design, develop, review, test, debug, document, and implement production software and platform capabilities.Lead technical design reviews, establish architecture decisions, and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards.Define and promote engineering practices, frameworks, and patterns that improve reuse, consistency, quality, observability, and developer productivity.Guide teams in Agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, estimation, technical decomposition, sprint planning, and continuous improvement.Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive technical guidance to maintain high engineering standards.Mentor engineers and SDETs through technical coaching, pairing, design feedback, and support for professional growth.Identify, investigate, and resolve complex technical and operational issues across platform capabilities and dependent systems.Ensure services are implementation-ready and operationally sound, including monitoring, alerting, documentation, scalability, resilience, and support procedures.Define and document service-level objectives and contribute to L3 support, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and on-call readiness for the application suite.Communicate technical decisions, delivery risks, progress, and trade-offs clearly to engineering and non-technical stakeholders.Position RequirementsExperience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including demonstrated experience leading technical design and delivery for complex applications or platform services.Technical Leadership: Experience serving as a technical lead, senior engineer, architect, or equivalent role, with a record of influencing engineering decisions across teams.Technical Skills: Hands-on experience with Java, Spring, Kafka, Camunda, PostgreSQL, and Redis is preferred. Experience with distributed systems, API design, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native or platform engineering practices is highly valued.Hands-on Expectations: This is a hands-on engineering role. The Technical Lead is expected to contribute directly to the codebase, lead design and code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and help unblock delivery of critical work.Collaboration: Strong ability to partner with product managers, architects, engineers, operations teams, and business stakeholders to balance technical quality, delivery commitments, and business outcomes.Operational Ownership: Experience defining service-level objectives, supporting production applications, participating in L3 on-call rotations, and driving incident follow-up and reliability improvements.Communication: Ability to explain complex technical concepts, architecture decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.Compensation Range: The salary range for this position is between $200,000.00- $230,000.00 USD.Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidate's final salary including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education.Bonus Eligibility: Bonus EligibleBenefits Information: Please visit www.broadridgebenefits.com for more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings for this role.#LI-NO1We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.Use of AI in HiringAs part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.US applicants: Click here to view the EEOC \"Know Your Rights\" poster.Disability AssistanceWe recognize that ensuring our long-term success means creating an environment where everyone is welcome, where everyone's strengths are valued, and where everyone can perform at their best. Broadridge provides equal employment opportunities to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ethnic origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, and other protected characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.If you need assistance or would like to request reasonable accommodations during the application and/or hiring process, please contact us at 888-237-7769 or by sending an email to [e-mail].