Engineering Manager

About the role

At Betterment, our software helps customers navigate the most important milestones in their financial lives. From saving for a first home to planning for retirement, hundreds of thousands of people trust us to invest and save on their behalf. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a critical role in shaping these experiences by leading a team dedicated to making saving and investing simple, accessible, and impactful.

We take pride in delivering high-quality, intuitive user experiences, and we are seeking a technical leader who can inspire, guide, and grow our engineering team. In this role, you will balance strategic vision with hands-on leadership while ensuring excellence in both quality and execution, all in service of helping our customers achieve financial wellness.

As an Engineering Manager on this team, you'll help lead us through a period of growth and maturation. You'll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional leadership to execute on a mission-aligned roadmap with your team. You'll also get the opportunity to lead and contribute to projects while driving operational excellence in everything we do. Along the way, you'll navigate the intricacies of our evolving domain and partner with other engineering leaders and stakeholders of diverse backgrounds. Just as importantly, you'll mentor and grow a team of talented engineers, empowering them to deliver their best work.

This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly. The base salary range offered for this position is reflected below. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment's total compensation package for employees.

• New York City: $170,000 - $195,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Lead and manage a team of engineers who work in a full-stack ecosystem.
• Serve as an effective player-coach, using direct project leadership and contributions to gain first-hand expertise into the world of financial wellness.
• Build things people love. Our goal is to delight our customers whenever possible. Sleek design, simple user experience, and access to sophisticated advice.
• Collaborate with product managers, staff engineers and subject matter experts to make sure the team is always building the right stuff and doing so thoughtfully.
• Inspire and maintain a strong, equitable engineering culture founded on transparency, inclusivity, mentorship, and collaboration.
• Drive roadmaps, mitigate risks, and ensure the team is continuing to deliver towards the business goals

What we're looking for

• Experience leading and contributing to full-stack web engineering projects. Our primary web application is built in Ruby on Rails, but we build our newest web interfaces using a combination of React and GraphQL. Other server-side languages, like Java or Python could be a good foundation
• Experience with establishing and upholding team culture through healthy team norms, processes, and inclusive practices.
• Experience with hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring an established team of talented engineers.
• Experience leading execution of large team projects and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers.
• Experience building important, high production-value software where quality and correctness matters while preserving a nimble, fluid, highly productive culture and workflow.
• A passion for developing your reports and helping craft opportunities for them to grow into continually more impactful team members.
• A love of software engineering and a willingness to get into the code to better understand the sophisticated business domains we work in.
• Experience collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with stakeholders in your area to produce roadmaps for your team.
• Experience setting and holding your team accountable to ambitious goals.