Bread is a technology company that aims to transform the way the world shops online. We build tools, technologies and APIs that allow e-commerce merchants to integrate installment loan financing and bother alternative payment products anywhere in their customers’ shopping journey. Bread has enormous and engaging technical challenges. We need to verify online identity, predict fraud, and approve and price credit while providing a beautiful and frictionless consumer experience, all in real time. Our Engineering team plays a critical role in allowing us to grow our business and the success of our brand partners.

The Merchant Engineering team is responsible for our post-checkout API, tools, and data solutions which allow Bread's merchants and partners to reliably operate the Bread platform at scale. The team's services, written in Go, are centered around high-volume, real-time transaction management, as well as modeling the complex relationships between buyers, financiers, and merchants. The team also owns a Merchant Portal which serves as the primary user interface for Bread, its merchants, and its partners to understand, manage, and optimize the Bread platform experience. This is a full stack team, with both backend and frontend components.

Your role at Bread:

• Manage a product engineering team, including professional development and leading them towards product delivery and success
• Work with senior engineering leadership to guide and influence the direction of the engineering organization
• Work actively with product to both understand and help develop the engineering roadmap
• Be accountable for leading design and implementation of new features and iterations of our core platform
• Block and tackle, when necessary, for engineers on your team
• Be data oriented and focused on what it takes to deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient products and technologies

What we are looking for:

Must Have:

• Experience managing and/or leading engineering teams
• A penchant for Back End engineering
• Expertise building scalable, reliable distributed systems
• Expert knowledge of server-side languages and data stores (such as: Go, Java, Rust, Postgresql, Redis, etc)
• Experience with public web APIs
• A passion for product, engineering and technology

Nice to have:

• Proven experience managing/leading a 4+ person team
• Experience developing systems intended for cloud deployments (AWS,k8s, docker)
• Experience with Go/PostgreSQL/Rabbit/Redis
• Experience with front-end technologies (Javascript, React)
• Experience managing in an OKR and KPI environment
• Experience on agile teams
• Experience with message-based, loosely coupled architectures (we use gRPC, RabbitMQ and Redis)
• Knowledge of financial products
• You enable your team at every chance you get

Engineers at Bread also get the opportunity to participate in “20%” time through Working Groups! Working Groups are quarterly teams of 4 to 6 engineers who set out to tackle a specific engineering initiative outside of their core engineering team. Working Groups have included ones for Logging Architecture, Internal Authentication, Community & Blogs, Testing Infrastructure, and Monitoring. Groups meet every Friday to plan and own their roadmap and implement their features. All engineers get a chance to be in one of these groups and over time potentially lead a group for that quarter. It's another opportunity as an engineer at Bread to have impact across the entire organization!