About Us 🚀

Bridgit is a non-bank lender specialising in bridging loans. We fill a gap left open by traditional lenders by offering the only flexible and dependable product in the market. We use technology to revolutionise the bridging loan experience and provide a solution fit for the expectation of today's customer.

We’re now four years old, sixty people strong and making huge strides. We have 15,000 accredited brokers, we’ve written over a billion in loans and we have picked up a bunch of awards. We’re the 2023 Emerging Fintech of the Year, #4 in the rising star category in the 2023 Deloitte Fast 50, best Fintech Growth Story in the 2024 Fintech Awards, and The Startup Daily 2023 winner of Best Workplace Culture.

The difference you’ll make

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who brings fresh ideas, has a curious nature and is passionate about working in an Engineering environment which focuses on building products to achieve the company's strategic goals. You’ll get to work with teams from across Bridgit’s portfolio of products and services who all have a real customer first philosophy.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow high performing teams that drive projects critical to Bridgit’s needs. We need our managers to be versatile, display exceptional leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

What we’re looking for:

We're looking for a leader who is as passionate about people as they are about technology.

You're a great fit if you have:

• Proven People Leadership: You have experience building and developing engineering teams, and you see leadership as a craft, focusing on mentoring and empowering engineers to do their best work.
• Strong Technical Acumen: While you may not be coding daily, you have a solid background in software engineering. You can confidently lead technical discussions on scalable system architecture, SDLC principles, and DevOps culture.
• Cloud & CI/CD Expertise: You have practical experience with cloud-native application development (preferably AWS) and have worked in environments with mature Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• A Collaborative Mindset: You excel at working with cross-functional partners (like Product, Design, and Data) to solve complex and conceptually exciting problems.
• Bonus Points For: Experience in a fast-paced scale-up, fintech, or consumer-facing product environment.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Manage and support our multidisciplinary team of engineers working on proprietary algorithms as well as help them advance in their careers.
• Support the design, development, and delivery of new product features across our multi-stack ecosystem.
• Take ownership of the architecture, solutions and the delivery of projects.
• Uphold high standards for our uptime and latency requirements while not sacrificing the veracity of API responses.
• Participate in maintaining the team’s cohesion and healthiness.
• Handle our incident response and post-incident investigation processes.
• Make critical choices in planning for the long-term vision of our infrastructure and its quality while not over-engineering.
• Maintain high-quality standards for code, infrastructure, and documentation.
• Support the creation and maintenance of user documentation.

What you'll do at Bridgit:

As an Engineering Manager, you will be at the heart of our product development, driving both your team and our technology forward.

• Lead, Mentor, and Grow: Lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. You'll be responsible for their career development, performance, and well-being.
• Drive Technical Delivery: Partner with Product Managers to translate our product vision into a technical roadmap. You'll own the delivery of this roadmap, ensuring your team ships high-quality, scalable features on time.
• Champion Technical Excellence: Guide your team in making key architectural decisions for our backend and frontend systems. You'll promote best practices in software development, from design patterns to CI/CD and testing.
• Shape the Future of Engineering: Contribute to the broader engineering strategy, helping us scale our teams, processes, and cloud infrastructure (we're all-in on AWS).
• Build the Team: Play a role in attracting, interviewing, and hiring top engineering talent to help Bridgit grow.

What you’ll bring:

• 5 years + working as a backend developer.
• 2 years + experience with Node.js.
• Experience leading a high performing team.
• Commercial experience with Node.JS, TypeScript and AWS Infrastructure.
• Positive attitude to the day to day with good interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail in documentation and ticket descriptions.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Outstanding communication skills.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you’re excited about reshaping the lending industry and want to be part of a company that values authenticity and innovation, we’d love to chat. Apply now and let’s build the future of finance together! 🚀