Engineering Manager | Bankrate
Role Overview
Bankrate is where Americans go to get the best price on life's most important financial decisions. By combining proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market coverage, Bankrate helps consumers compare options and make confident financial choices across mortgages, credit cards, savings, and more. As a rate provider to the Federal Reserve and the benchmark relied upon by major publishers and policymakers nationwide, Bankrate's rate data is the national standard. This commitment to precision is reflected across all its products. In mortgages, proprietary auction technology puts lenders in real-time competition on price alone, consistently delivering rates in the lowest 10% in the country. For deposits, the platform features exclusively top-tier rates in the top 10% nationally, while its credit card coverage encompasses more than 90% of the market by volume. Founded by a journalist, Bankrate remains dedicated to its founding mission of transparency, honest information, and real competition — helping to make the American dream more affordable for everyone.
Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
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At Red Ventures, we believe in real human connection. That’s why we do not hire someone through text, social media, or email only. As part of the hiring process, you should expect live conversations with RV teammates before any offer is made. Also, keep an eye on the sender: we only use official @redventures.com email addresses at the portfolio level or business specific email addresses (e.g., @thepointsguy.com), not ones like “redventurescareer.com.” We will never ask candidates to send money, buy equipment, or share financial account info during your journey with us. You can always find our open roles on redventures.com— if you receive a message that seems suspicious, please use redventures.com to verify the opportunity.
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Who We Are:
Bankrate is where Americans go to get the best price on life's most important financial decisions. By combining proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market coverage, Bankrate helps consumers compare options and make confident financial choices across mortgages, credit cards, savings, and more. As a rate provider to the Federal Reserve and the benchmark relied upon by major publishers and policymakers nationwide, Bankrate's rate data is the national standard. This commitment to precision is reflected across all its products. In mortgages, proprietary auction technology puts lenders in real-time competition on price alone, consistently delivering rates in the lowest 10% in the country. For deposits, the platform features exclusively top-tier rates in the top 10% nationally, while its credit card coverage encompasses more than 90% of the market by volume. Founded by a journalist, Bankrate remains dedicated to its founding mission of transparency, honest information, and real competition — helping to make the American dream more affordable for everyone.
Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
At Red Ventures, we believe in real human connection. That’s why we do not hire someone through text, social media, or email only. As part of the hiring process, you should expect live conversations with RV teammates before any offer is made. Also, keep an eye on the sender: we only use official @redventures.com email addresses at the portfolio level or business specific email addresses (e.g., @thepointsguy.com), not ones like “redventurescareer.com.” We will never ask candidates to send money, buy equipment, or share financial account info during your journey with us. You can always find our open roles on redventures.com— if you receive a message that seems suspicious, please use redventures.com to verify the opportunity.
For more, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has published helpful articles to help individuals learn more about protecting themselves from recruiter scams. If you think you’ve been targeted, feel free to report it to your local authorities. Stay safe out there!
Click here for more details regarding the employee privacy policy: https://www.redventures.com/legal/us-emp-privacy-notice
Questions about this Privacy Notice can be directed to [email protected]. Alternatively, you may raise any questions or concerns to your manager, HR Business Partner, or through the Privacy Team.
Qualifications
- Experience leading and managing a small engineering team, or a technical lead / player-coach ready to formalize into people management.
- Still technically hands-on and credible — able to review, contribute to, and make sound decisions within a modern TypeScript codebase.
- Strong people-leadership skills: coaching, feedback, performance management, and developing engineers across levels.
- Solid delivery management: decomposing work, sequencing, managing dependencies and risk, and communicating status honestly.
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders; comfortable managing up, across, and outward.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and a lean operating model; biases toward leverage and automation over headcount.
- Remains hands-on within our primarily TypeScript-based stack spanning API services and full-stack web applications.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS), infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation.
- Familiar with observability/APM and incident-response tooling; upholds operational and quality standards for a regulated, money-touching product.
- Fluent with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or Microsoft Copilot, and able to use them to raise team throughput and reduce toil while holding the review and quality bar.
- Leverages AI tooling to increase team throughput and reduce toil.
- Total Cash Compensation Range: $160,000 – $210,000 per year
- This role is also eligible for Equity, which is offered separately from the total cash compensation listed above. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.
- Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Holiday Pay
- 401(k) with match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 2–4 engineers (junior through senior), owning their day-to-day management, growth, and performance.
- Own sprint-to-sprint delivery — planning, prioritization, sequencing, and honest communication of scope, timeline, and risk.
- Manage individual performance and development through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, career growth conversations, and the harder conversations when they’re needed.
- Contribute hands-on to the codebase where it adds the most leverage — typically the ambiguous, load-bearing, or unblocking work — while deliberately leaving well-scoped growth opportunities to the team.
- Partner with Product, Design, and peer engineering teams to align on priorities, resolve dependencies, and translate business goals into deliverable work.
- Own team health and operational quality, including on-call, incident response, and a real quality and compliance bar in a regulated, money-touching domain.
- Cultivate a collaborative, continuous learning, and inclusive team culture.
- Champion high-leverage, AI-forward ways of working that raise the team’s throughput without compromising quality.
- Remove blockers, shield the team from unnecessary noise, and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work
- Experience leading and managing a small engineering team, or a technical lead / player-coach ready to formalize into people management.
- Still technically hands-on and credible — able to review, contribute to, and make sound decisions within a modern TypeScript codebase.
- Strong people-leadership skills: coaching, feedback, performance management, and developing engineers across levels.
- Solid delivery management: decomposing work, sequencing, managing dependencies and risk, and communicating status honestly.
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders; comfortable managing up, across, and outward.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and a lean operating model; biases toward leverage and automation over headcount.
- Remains hands-on within our primarily TypeScript-based stack spanning API services and full-stack web applications.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS), infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation.
- Familiar with observability/APM and incident-response tooling; upholds operational and quality standards for a regulated, money-touching product.
- Fluent with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or Microsoft Copilot, and able to use them to raise team throughput and reduce toil while holding the review and quality bar.
- Leverages AI tooling to increase team throughput and reduce toil.
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