Software Engineering Manager jobs in Addison, IL

At Bento (which is now a part of the U.S. Bank family), we believe there’s a better way for businesses to manage and control expenses. We genuinely care about people in everything we do, and we are dedicated to building the best possible products and experiences at every touchpoint for our customers.

If you are an extraordinary engineering leader who thrives in a fast-growing environment, and if you are equally passionate about technology, people, and thoughtfully crafted products, we’d love to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Relentlessly drive the execution and delivery of new platform development areas.
• Lead as a purposeful and empathetic engineering manager who attracts and nurtures strong engineering talent
• Foster a positive, collaborative, and responsibility-based environment and culture that empowers team members to grow and succeed
• Be a multiplier and effectively manage engineers to drive execution of roadmap and help team members develop their careers
• Be a highly technical engineering manager capable of holding your own in technical discussions, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.
• Maintain high standards of engineering excellence and best practices
• Operate in a rapidly evolving environment and be able to quickly adapt and prioritize as needed
• Collaborate with senior management and build cross-team and cross-functional partnerships to drive engineering efforts to completion
• Be a business-minded and product-oriented engineering leader and maintain focus on delivering safe, reliable, and efficient technology solutions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience 
• Six to eight years of relevant technical experience 
• Five or more years of leading a software engineering team

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Successfully led and managed multiple teams concurrently, including managers is a plus
• Experience leading development of modern web and mobile application platforms
• Expertise with AWS, Java, MySQL (Aurora) relational databases, distributed systems, React, TypeScript, and other related technology stacks
• Expertise in driving agile development methodologies like Sprints or Kanban
• Excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, and time management skills
• Experience in financial services, payments, or transaction processing is a plus

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.