
Senior Manager/Director, Engineering
Brightline
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $174,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Manage and coach senior engineers organized around business domains — acquisition, care, and billing/infrastructure
- Your job is to give people what they need to do their best work — context, clarity, feedback, and air cover
- Run meaningful 1:1s focused on growth and removing blockers, not status updates
- Design how the team works:
- We're growing from one team to three domain-aligned pods. You'll figure out how that actually works — coordination patterns, shared rituals, information flow
- Evolve team practices as AI tools reshape engineering workflows. There's no playbook — you'll build it with the team
- Create just enough structure to stay aligned without slowing anyone down
- Build the team:
- Drive hiring for open engineering roles
- Help shape team structure as we grow from one team to three domain-aligned pods
- Ensure we're hiring senior people who raise the bar
- Stay technical — for a reason:
- You'll spend real time writing code — because AI tools are fundamentally changing how engineers work and we're all figuring it out together, and because sometimes the best way to unblock the team is to dive in yourself.
- You need hands-on experience to be a credible coach — understanding the challenges, the breakthroughs, and where people get stuck. Your role is to help the team navigate this shift, not to tell them how to do it.
Requirements
- You've led engineering teams and your people genuinely liked working for you
- You've managed senior engineers who don't need hand-holding but do need support, clarity, and advocacy
- You've stayed close to the code — you can open a PR today, not just talk about the one you wrote in 2019
- You're engaged with AI coding tools and are thinking about how they're reshaping engineering teams — excited about the possibilities, honest about the uncertainty, and more interested in learning together than having all the answers
- You have experience leading distributed/remote teams
- You're excited about improving behavioral health for children, teens, and their families
- Bonus Points:
- Experience with Ruby on Rails (our primary stack)
- Healthcare experience — clinical workflows, insurance billing, or compliance (HIPAA)
- Experience with low-process, high-trust development methodologies where teams own their own delivery
- You've helped scaled teams before
- You've worked in "prove" mode — scrappy, outcome-focused, not yet at scale
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and 401k
- 12 Company Holidays, Holiday Shutdown, Paid Time Off, Parental Leave
- Health and Wellness Stipend, Home Office Reimbursement, Cell Phone & Internet Reimbursement and Professional Development Reimbursement
- Stock Options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Ruby on RailsAI coding toolscode reviewpull requestssoftware developmentengineering workflowsdistributed team managementbehavioral health improvementlow-process development methodologiesoutcome-focused development
Soft Skills
coachingteam managementclarityadvocacysupportcommunicationgrowth facilitationproblem-solvingcollaborationleadership