Engineering Manager

Creative Alignments

  • USA
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 5 days ago
Join BridgeCare and lead a talented engineering team while contributing hands-on to products that expand access to quality early childhood education.BridgeCareWe believe every child should have access to excellent early care and education, every person should be able to pursue purpose and enjoy family, and every provider should be valued as a skilled educator.
Our team does this by providing a user-experience-driven data and technology platform designed to create a functional, effective ECE system. Our team is built on trust. We value autonomy and taking initiative, but we also believe in supporting one another and working together.What You Will DoAs an Engineering Manager, you’ll play a dual role: guiding, supporting, and growing a team of talented engineers, while contributing hands-on to our Rails/Vue codebase. You’ll champion best practices, foster a joyful and collaborative culture, and partner with leadership to scale processes and systems as the company grows.Responsibilities
  • Serve as the functional manager for two development teams, overseeing performance management, career growth, and team health
  • Partner with engineering and company leadership to champion and evolve processes as the company scales
  • Lead with high emotional intelligence, creating a supportive, collaborative, and motivating environment
  • Partner with product managers and team leads to ensure teams have clear priorities and resources to succeed
  • Build trust with direct reports and cross-functional partners by collaborating and following through on commitments
  • Coach engineers through technical and professional challenges with candid and compassionate feedback
  • Contribute hands-on to the Rails/Vue codebase (~20–30% of your time) to support roadmap execution and model best practices
Who You AreYou are a thoughtful and driven leader who thrives at balancing people leadership with technical contributions. You bring high emotional intelligence, strong technical expertise, and a commitment to helping engineers do their best work in service of a meaningful mission.Qualifications
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong skills in Ruby on Rails (or similar SaaS frameworks)
  • 2+ years of engineering management or team leadership experience, ideally as a functional manager
  • Proven ability to balance hands-on development with people leadership
  • High emotional intelligence—empathy, active listening, and conflict resolution come naturally to you
  • Experience guiding teams through change, growth, and ambiguity
  • Strong technical and interpersonal communication skills
  • Commitment to improving access to early childhood education
  • Bonus: Experience with Vue.js, enterprise SaaS, edtech, govtech, or healthcare technology sectors
Benefits
  • Mission-driven team working to drive universal access to quality early childhood education
  • High-impact role with autonomy, ownership, and visibility across the organization
  • Opportunities to shape processes, systems, and solutions as we continue to grow
  • Remote work, Flexible scheduling, Unlimited PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, FSA, and Company matched 401(k).
Business can be a powerful platform for social change, and our higher purpose is to use recruiting as a force for good to improve people’s lives. BridgeCare Finance, Inc. is committed to fostering a people-first culture — one that honors diversity and welcomes people regardless of their chosen or inherent identity. As part of this, we are intentional in our efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion, both internally and with our clients.

Creative Alignments