brightwheel

Engineering Manager

brightwheel

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $154,000 - $237,000 per year

About the role

  • Get to use AI in every aspect of your role
  • Lead a high-performing, full-stack team to deliver key product outcomes with quality and urgency
  • Collaborate with Product and Design to shape roadmap priorities, technical tradeoffs, and delivery plans
  • Leverage AI and automation to meaningfully improve engineering velocity and operational excellence
  • Grow and develop a team of engineers through regular coaching, feedback, and mentorship
  • Drive a high bar for execution, quality, and delivery—ensuring consistency across planning cycles
  • Implement engineering best practices within your team and partner with other teams to coordinate delivery.
  • Champion customer-centric decision making, ensuring every build aligns to real user needs

Requirements

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of shipping complex, high-impact software
  • Proven success leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, product-centric environment
  • Leveraged AI tools and workflows to increase team velocity, quality, and operational excellence (e.g., development, testing, debugging, documentation, incident response).
  • Strong technical background; able to contribute architectural discussions, guide design decisions, and remove blockers
  • Experience coaching engineers across a range of levels and helping them grow
  • Demonstrated ability to move fast, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver results
  • Passion for using AI and tooling to unlock team leverage and elevate quality
  • Strong customer empathy—you advocate for their needs in every sprint, spec, and system.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Flexible PTO so you can recharge when you need it
  • Local retirement or savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S.)
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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