Technical Lead/Engineering Manager | Bankrate

Role overview Lead a small engineering team while remaining primarily hands-on, personally building production features in a TypeScript and React environment. The role combines technical direction and delivery ownership with day-to-day management, growth, and performance support for two to three direct reports in a lean, AI-forward setting.

Responsibilities - Design, implement, and ship production features, while guiding the team’s technical choices and engineering practices. - Plan and manage sprint delivery, including prioritization, sequencing, dependencies, scope, timelines, and risks. - Coach and manage two to three engineers through regular one-to-ones, actionable feedback, career discussions, and performance conversations. - Work with Product, Design, and peer teams to turn business goals into deliverable work and resolve cross-team dependencies. - Support on-call, incident response, and operational quality for software in a regulated financial domain. - Use AI coding tools and automation to improve team throughput while maintaining review and quality standards.

Requirements - Recent, substantial experience personally shipping production software with TypeScript and React in a TypeScript-based web and API environment. - Strong hands-on engineering skills and a desire to keep most of your time focused on implementation. - Experience mentoring engineers and leading delivery, plus interest in managing the day-to-day work and development of a small group. - Ability to break down work, manage dependencies and risks, and communicate status clearly to technical and non-technical partners. - Working knowledge of AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and incident response. - Familiarity with AI coding assistants and sound judgment in reviewing their output.

Benefits and work setup The role can be remote or hybrid, with an East Coast preference; hybrid work is centered around offices in New York City or the Charlotte area. Candidates must be able to work Eastern Time hours. Listed benefits include health, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage; flexible spending accounts; a retirement plan with match; paid parental bonding leave; an employee assistance program; holiday pay; and flexible paid time off.