[Remote] API Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brightwell is a company focused on making global money movement faster and more accessible through technology. They are seeking an API Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building and maintaining services that power their payment platform, ensuring reliable and high-performance APIs while improving architecture and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Write, review, and ship production C# and .NET code daily. This is not a “review from the sideline” role; you’re in the codebase alongside your team
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), coaching your team on effective use while establishing quality gates for AI-generated code through rigorous planning and review
• Own the technical direction for your team’s domain within Brightwell’s API platform, partnering closely with the peer API Engineering Manager to ensure alignment and consistency across both API teams
• Drive API architecture decisions including patterns for versioning, error handling, authentication, and scalability
• Lead incident response and resolution for critical API and integration issues
• Dive deep into the product with the team to gain a thorough understanding of the platform and the underlying technology
• Lead a team of 4 engineers developing API solutions in C#, ASP.NET Core, and Azure
• Partner with Product and other Engineering Managers to align priorities, coordinate dependencies, and deliver projects on time, identifying risks early and making pragmatic trade-offs to keep your team focused
• Conduct 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
• Identify and implement improvements in engineering processes, tools, and architecture to enable delivery on key initiatives
• Grow your team’s capabilities through hands-on mentoring, code-level coaching, and clear engineering standards

Skills

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding experience and architectural design
• 2+ years of experience managing distributed software engineering teams
• Strong C# and .NET experience, including ASP.NET Core Web APIs
• Experience with relational databases and Entity Framework (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
• Strong Azure experience (Functions, Queues, Event Hub, Service Bus, App Services, and related services)
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects spanning months of development
• Experience coaching and mentoring individuals at various levels of experience, from leaders to individual contributors
• Comfortable moving between a 1-on-1 conversation and a pull request review in the same hour while doing both well
• Experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate engineering workflows and improve team productivity
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI, cross-border payments)
• Experience designing and maintaining partner-facing APIs and integration patterns
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems
• CI/CD expertise with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) with match, flexible spending accounts, paid parental leave, paid vacation, and more
• Professional development support
• Remote work with benefits
• Paid parental leave
• Paid vacation
• 401(k) with match
• Flexible spending accounts

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