Engineering Manager

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don't just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference - driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed. 

We are looking for a talented and experienced Engineering Manager to join our team. Bridgenext is seeking an Engineering Manager who will be expected to partner with Director level person in client organization to deliver several high-impact projects and contribute to technical design process.

In this role you will primarily be working with Node.JS and ReactJS on a Cloud based SaaS product (hosted on Azure Kubernetes cluster).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead, mentor, and manage development teams, including software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration

• Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to best practices in coding, architecture, and deployment

• Design scalable, loosely coupled, service-oriented systems that align with business goals and evolving technical requirements

• Conduct thorough code reviews, implement testing pipelines, and enforce design principles to maintain high-quality code

• Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues, optimizing system performance, reliability, and scalability

• Work closely with product managers, clients, and cross-functional teams to define, plan, and execute technical solutions while balancing feature development with technical debt

• Collaborate with Staff and Technical Leads to define and refine system solutions, continuously improving architectural strategies

• Enhance development and deployment workflows by refining CI/CD pipelines and streamlining engineering processes

• Ensure applications comply with industry security standards and implement best practices to safeguard data and infrastructure

• Be hands-on in production issues, assisting in troubleshooting and resolution to maintain system stability

• Effectively prioritize tasks, manage team workloads, and drive the successful delivery of critical projects

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, driving innovation within the team

Workplace: Remote, working from home (working in CST hours). You should be able to travel to Atlanta or Chicago, US for quarterly meetings.

Must Have Skills

• 8-12 years of total work experience, with at least 6 years in JavaScript/TypeScript development and 2+ years in Node.js and React

• 3+ years leading development teams, including coaching engineers on requirement analysis, technical design, estimation, and best practices

• Strong architecture and system design experience, particularly in distributed systems and event-driven architectures

• Experience designing loosely coupled, service-oriented systems with a strong foundation in object-oriented design principles

• Hands-on experience with NoSQL, SQL, and Kubernetes

• Good exposure to GraphQL, Kafka is required

• Ability to read code, analyze logs, run Bash commands, and execute SQL queries to support engineering teams, with or without direct coding responsibilities

• Experience working in highly dynamic environments, managing changing priorities, and meeting strict deadlines

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to work with customers, cross-functional teams, and offshore teams

• Proven track record in managing engineering teams, motivating engineers, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Preferred Skills

• Logistics domain experience is a plus

Professional Skills

• Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Strong team and individual player
• Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature
• High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results
• Self-sufficient, independent requiring very little supervision or intervention
• Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues  

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer

US citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply

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