Full-Stack Engineering Manager

About Bright:

Hey there! Were Bright a fintech solar energy startup on a mission to reverse climate change starting in Mexico. We do so as a finance and technology layer powering the solar installer and entrepreneurial ecosystem working hard to simplify the process through automation.

Weve become Mexicos #1 residential solar financier in just a few years. Weve coordinated everything needed to get solar on homes from financing to installation so customers can go solar with no money down. Weve raised funding from top investors like First Round Capital Y Combinator and Leonardo DiCaprio. Like we do they believe we can grow exponentially while having fun and being one of the best places to work in solar.

About the position:

Join us as Software Engineering Manager to bring clean solar energy to Mexico! Work with our Software team and play a critical role in achieving Brights goals by aligning the Software team with the companys priorities. Youll be responsible for managing our small but mighty engineering team setting up sprint structures and prioritization tools and leading many of our engineering efforts to enable the entire solar ecosystem in Mexico Latin America and hopefully the rest of the developing world.

Tasks

Your tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Manage our small but mighty engineering team setting up the right sprint structures and prioritization tools to best enable them
• Collaborate closely with our product and product design leads to set up the team for success and ensure they are focused and stay in flow.
• Build! We want you to code move quickly and contribute real impact.

Requirements

Were looking for someone who:

• Has >6 years of experience as a Software Engineer manager or similar roles
• Has the following skills:
• Fullstack background:
• Youve potentially led development in projects before and built from the ground up
• Because were still a small team you may start as a playercoach manager
• Is pragmatic:
• Can prioritize and say no when needed
• Communication:
• Comfortable communicating and working with nonengineers (we work with almost every team at Bright in some capacity from interns to the CEO)
• Has fluency in technical English (Spanish is a bonus)
• Plus for experience with:
• Postgres or a similar SQL database (we are big fans of Postgres) node.js Go (or both) data modeling skills for use in SQL or Redis SPAs React Tailwind CSS Material UI GraphQL (Apollo) Retool (as the frontend for many internal tools)
• Our stack:
• PostgreSQL PostGIS
• EC2 S3 and SQS on AWS
• Redis
• Node.js Go GraphQL
• React
• Retool (for the front end of many internal tools)
• Has prior startup experience and demonstrated product intuition
• Wants to expand their scope beyond engineering and elevate impact to product vision team composition and beyond
• Is not afraid to get into the nitty gritty of UI/UX and is open to doing workshops with our partners etc. (desirable)

Benefits

Benefits:

• The opportunity to learn firsthand about the distributed generation regulatory scheme in Mexico while being a part of the fastestgrowing startup in the country.
• A fun highcaliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant.
• Possibility to generate equity at Bright
• Private health insurance
• Access to costfree mental health care
• Parental leave
• Access to mentorship programs
• Remote work

Apply directly to our career site Careers at Bright as Bright Software Engineering Manager.