Brightwell

Role Description We’re looking for an API Engineering Manager to lead one of our API teams responsible for building and maintaining the services that power Brightwell’s payment platform. Your team owns core services that enable cross-border payments and partner-facing integrations that connect our platform to the broader financial ecosystem. You’ll guide your team to deliver reliable, high-performance APIs while driving improvements in architecture, developer experience, and engineering practices. This is a hands-on manager role with a true 50/50 split: - Half your time writing and reviewing C#/.NET code. - Half leading your team and shaping the process. This is a remote position open to candidates currently residing in FL, GA, IL, or TX. Atlanta-area candidates will work hybrid (2 days/week in office at The Battery). All other candidates will work fully remote, with quarterly travel to Atlanta required. What You’ll Do - Hands-On Technical Work (50%): - Write, review, and ship production C# and .NET code daily. - Lead the adoption of AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.). - Own the technical direction for your team’s domain within Brightwell’s API platform. - Drive API architecture decisions including patterns for versioning, error handling, authentication, and scalability. - Lead incident response and resolution for critical API and integration issues. - Dive deep into the product with the team to gain a thorough understanding of the platform and the underlying technology. - People & Process Management (50%): - Lead a team of 4 engineers developing API solutions in C#, ASP.NET Core, and Azure. - Partner with Product and other Engineering Managers to align priorities and coordinate dependencies. - Conduct 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and career development planning. - Identify and implement improvements in engineering processes, tools, and architecture. - Grow your team’s capabilities through hands-on mentoring, code-level coaching, and clear engineering standards. Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding experience and architectural design. - 2+ years of experience managing distributed software engineering teams. - Strong C# and .NET experience, including ASP.NET Core Web APIs. - Experience with relational databases and Entity Framework (PostgreSQL or equivalent). - Strong Azure experience (Functions, Queues, Event Hub, Service Bus, App Services, and related services). - Proven ability to deliver complex projects spanning months of development. - Experience coaching and mentoring individuals at various levels of experience. - Comfortable moving between a 1-on-1 conversation and a pull request review. - Experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot). - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Nice to Have - Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI, cross-border payments). - Experience designing and maintaining partner-facing APIs and integration patterns. - Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems. - CI/CD expertise with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar. Benefits - A role where you actually code. - A peer EM structure that gives you a real partner. - A team that’s already leaning into AI-assisted development. - Direct access to engineering leadership and real input into platform strategy. - Remote work with benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid parental leave, and PTO. What Success Looks Like - First 30 days: You’ve shipped your first PR, built context on the platform and codebase, and started building trust with your team. - First 90 days: You own your team’s roadmap and have identified the highest-leverage improvements. - First year: API reliability and developer experience are measurably better. Why Work Here - Real Ownership & Impact: Take charge of your work with full autonomy. - Entrepreneurial Spirit: We welcome bold thinkers who are passionate about driving change. - Growth & Development: We invest in your career with professional development support. - Flexible & Collaborative Team: Enjoy a remote-friendly environment and a tight-knit team. - Competitive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) with match, and more. Brightwell is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help bring our Azure infrastructure under Terraform and build the platform our product teams depend on. We have a running production environment; now we need someone to codify it, automate it, and make it self-service. You’ll split your time evenly between platform engineering and operational work, with a clear mandate to reduce the operational burden over time. This is a hands-on technical role with a 50/50 split: - Platform Engineering (50%): - Terraform existing Azure infrastructure. This is the primary mission from day one. - Use AI-assisted tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate IaC development, automation scripting, and configuration management. - Automate repetitive tasks and build self-service tooling. - Improve observability and monitoring capabilities. - Create runbooks and technical documentation. - Collaborate with InfoSec on security and compliance controls. - Work with your manager (Engineering Manager, Infrastructure & Platform) on platform strategy and priorities. - Operational Work (50%): - Support product teams with Azure infrastructure requests. - Manage Azure resources (VMs, Serverless Functions, App Services, SQL, networking, etc.). - Maintain CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot deployment issues. - Apply patches, updates, and security fixes. - Monitor production systems health, performance, and costs. - Respond to incidents and participate in weekly on-call rotation. Qualifications - 5+ years in infrastructure/platform/DevOps roles. - Strong Azure experience (App Services, Serverless, databases, networking, identity). - Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform or Bicep. - Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Datadog, Grafana, etc. - CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar. - Scripting: TypeScript, PowerShell, Python, or Bash. - Understanding of networking, DNS, SSL/TLS, mTLS. - Experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate infrastructure automation and engineering workflows. - Comfortable with on-call responsibilities. Requirements - Bonus Points: - Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI). - Configuration management: Ansible, etc. - GitOps practices. Benefits - Real Ownership & Impact: Take charge of your work with full autonomy — what you build ships to real users at real financial institutions around the world. - Entrepreneurial Spirit: We welcome bold thinkers who are passionate about driving change, solving hard problems, and pushing innovation forward. - Growth & Development: We invest in your career with professional development support and expanding opportunities as we scale. - Flexible & Collaborative Team: Enjoy a remote-friendly environment and a tight-knit, inclusive team with opportunities for both social and professional engagement. - Competitive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) with match, flexible spending accounts, paid parental leave, paid vacation, and more. On-Call Details - Weekly on-call rotation (alternating with team). - Typical escalations: deployment issues, performance problems, outages. - Maintenance window reserved for once a month on Saturday, used as needed.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We're looking for a Product Manager to own the front-end mobile experience across iOS and Android for our financial institution partners. You'll work closely with the Director of Product on roadmap strategy and collaborate daily with engineers, designers, and cross-functional teammates — with real ownership of your feature areas and the trust to move quickly. - Create the mobile roadmap in partnership with the Director of Product, collaborating on strategy and owning the execution of features built on iOS and Android for our FI partners and their end users. - Own the payment experiences like send flows, recipient management, transaction tracking, and delivery options for both domestic and international transfers that are intuitive, fast, and trustworthy. - Feature discovery and prioritization grounded in user research, analytics, and direct FI feedback. - Set the quality bar for what ships. You’re embedded with mobile engineers, designers, and backend/API teams, not handing off specs from a distance. - Establish product metrics that measure real value: adoption, engagement, completion rates, and customer satisfaction. - Stakeholder communication including feature updates, release notes, and demos across internal teams and external FI partners. - Take control of the backlog: well-organized, clearly prioritized, and always ready for the team to pull from. Qualifications - 3+ years in product management with meaningful time spent on mobile (iOS/Android) banking or payments products. - Strong knowledge of compliance, transaction monitoring, fraud detection, and how the regulatory landscape shapes product decisions. - Shipped mobile features you can point to that demonstrate craft, user empathy, and business impact. - Experience working with financial institutions or in B2B2C models where you’re balancing the needs of a platform partner and an end user. - Comfort with data: you pull your own analytics, run experiments, and let evidence guide your decisions. - Technical fluency. You don’t need to write the code, but you understand mobile architecture, API dependencies, and platform constraints well enough to have real conversations with engineers. - Proficiency with AI tools as part of your daily workflow. You use them to move faster, think more clearly, and amplify your team’s output. - Strong communication skills. You can write clearly, present to stakeholders, and keep cross-functional teams aligned. - The ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment where you take initiative, ask for help when you need it, and contribute to a culture of shared ownership. Bonus Points if You Have - Background in UX or design thinking that elevates your product instincts. - Familiarity with Visa, Mastercard, or other payment network integrations. - Experience building SDK-driven or white-label mobile experiences for partner distribution. - Experience with process automation or building operational efficiencies into product workflows. Benefits - This is a remote position open to candidates currently residing in FL, GA, IL, or TX. - Atlanta-area candidates will work hybrid (2 days/week in office at The Battery). - All other candidates will work fully remote, with quarterly travel to Atlanta required.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We’re looking for an API Engineering Manager to lead one of our API teams responsible for building and maintaining the services that power Brightwell’s payment platform. Your team owns core services that enable cross-border payments and partner-facing integrations that connect our platform to the broader financial ecosystem. You’ll guide your team to deliver reliable, high-performance APIs while driving improvements in architecture, developer experience, and engineering practices. This is a hands-on manager role with a true 50/50 split. Half your time writing and reviewing C#/.NET code, half leading your team and shaping the process. This is a REMOTE position, based in the U.S., with preference for candidates local to the Atlanta, GA area. Quarterly travel to Atlanta will be required. Eligible states of residence: FL, GA, IL, TX What You’ll Do - Hands-On Technical Work (50%): - Write, review, and ship production C# and .NET code daily. - Lead the adoption of AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), coaching your team on effective use while establishing quality gates for AI-generated code through rigorous planning and review. - Own the technical direction for your team’s domain within Brightwell’s API platform, partnering closely with the peer API Engineering Manager to ensure alignment and consistency across both API teams. - Drive API architecture decisions including patterns for versioning, error handling, authentication, and scalability. - Lead incident response and resolution for critical API and integration issues. - Dive deep into the product with the team to gain a thorough understanding of the platform and the underlying technology. - People & Process Management (50%): - Lead a team of 4 engineers developing API solutions in C#, ASP.NET Core, and Azure. - Partner with Product and other Engineering Managers to align priorities, coordinate dependencies, and deliver projects on time, identifying risks early and making pragmatic trade-offs to keep your team focused. - Conduct 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and career development planning. - Identify and implement improvements in engineering processes, tools, and architecture to enable delivery on key initiatives. - Grow your team’s capabilities through hands-on mentoring, code-level coaching, and clear engineering standards. Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding experience and architectural design. - 2+ years of experience managing distributed software engineering teams. - Strong C# and .NET experience, including ASP.NET Core Web APIs. - Experience with relational databases and Entity Framework (PostgreSQL or equivalent). - Strong Azure experience (Functions, Queues, Event Hub, Service Bus, App Services, and related services). - Proven ability to deliver complex projects spanning months of development. - Experience coaching and mentoring individuals at various levels of experience, from leaders to individual contributors. - Comfortable moving between a 1-on-1 conversation and a pull request review in the same hour while doing both well. - Experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate engineering workflows and improve team productivity. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Nice to Have - Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI, cross-border payments). - Experience designing and maintaining partner-facing APIs and integration patterns. - Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems. - CI/CD expertise with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar. What You’ll Get - A role where you actually code. Most EM positions say “hands-on” and mean “you’ll review PRs sometimes.” We mean 50%. - A peer EM structure that gives you a real partner, not a hierarchy to navigate. Two API teams, aligned on direction, each with autonomy. - A team that’s already leaning into AI-assisted development. You’ll help define what that looks like at scale, not fight to get buy-in. - Direct access to engineering leadership and real input into platform strategy. Small company, short feedback loops. - Remote work with benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid parental leave, and PTO. What Success Looks Like - First 30 days: You’ve shipped your first PR, built context on the platform and codebase, and started building trust with your team and the peer API EM. - First 90 days: You own your team’s roadmap. You’ve identified the highest-leverage improvements and started delivering on them. Your team knows where they’re headed and why. - First year: API reliability and developer experience are measurably better. Your team is shipping faster and with more confidence. You and the peer EM have a shared API strategy that the rest of engineering trusts. Why Brightwell? - Empowered Work: Own your work and grow your career with real autonomy. - Flex Friendly Culture: Enjoy flexibility with support for remote work and periodic team meetups. - Startup Energy, Global Impact: Join a passionate team building mission-critical tools for people around the world. - Great Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), paid parental leave, PTO, and more. - Supportive Environment: Thrive in a collaborative, inclusive workplace that values innovation and continuous learning. Brightwell is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.