Director, Engineering Manager

Job Description

Asset Mark is a leading wealth management platform dedicated to empowering independent financial advisors. Our mission is to enable advisors to make a profound difference in the lives of their clients. Over 10,000 advisors partner with Asset Mark for our investment offerings, innovative technology, advanced services, and expertise—using our platform to delight clients and grow their businesses.

We can only consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Concord, CA office.

• Lead the team in delivering against a large, complex, and commercially critical product roadmap
• Own execution quality—ensuring teams ship reliably, quickly, and with high standards
• Translate product priorities into clear engineering plans, sequencing, and trade-offs
• Drive a culture of accountability for outcomes, not just output
• Continuously improve how the team delivers—balancing speed, quality and scalability

• Lead and develop a multi-squad front‑end engineering team, with a strong emphasis on growing junior and mid‑level engineers into exceptional talent
• Establish a culture of craft excellence, mentorship and continuous improvement
• Act as a hands‑on technical leader, contributing meaningfully to the codebase (~40%+)
• Hire and retain engineers who care deeply about UX, performance and code quality
• Build out our Global Capability Center in Hyderabad

• Champion front‑end patterns (component‑driven design, declarative approaches, state‑management discipline)
• Shape how we leverage AI‑assisted development in all aspects of the SDLC
• Drive consistency in design systems, UI frameworks and shared components
• Ensure high standards for performance, accessibility and usability
• Partner with platform teams on BFF integration patterns while maintaining clear front‑end ownership boundaries

• Lead teams building intuitive, performant and elegant applications for advisors and investors
• Raise the bar on interaction design, responsiveness and perceived performance
• Ensure tight alignment between design intent and engineering execution
• Push teams to think beyond features—to end‑to‑end experience quality

• Operate in tight, durable partnerships with Product and Design leaders embedded in your teams
• Contribute to product strategy with a strong point of view on what great experiences look like
• Translate ambiguous product goals into clear technical direction and execution plans
• Foster a culture of shared ownership across Engineering, Product and Design

• Own delivery across a portfolio of front‑end teams, balancing speed, quality and sustainability
• Establish clear engineering standards, patterns and ways of working
• Guide teams through complex cross‑application workflows and shared dependencies
• Lead through ambiguity while maintaining high velocity and high standards

• Deep expertise in modern front‑end development (React, Type Script, mobile frameworks etc.)
• Strong point of view on UI patterns, state‑management and performance optimisation
• Passion for design systems, usability and interaction quality
• You care not just about what you build—not how it feels to the user

• Proven ability to develop junior and mid‑level engineers into high performers
• Experience leading multi‑team / multi‑squad teams
• You view management as a craft of talent stewardship and growth
• You create environments where engineers learn fast and do their best work

• You are hands‑on by choice, not by necessity
• Comfortable contributing to production code, code reviews and design discussions
• You lead through example, not just direction

• You think like a product partner, not just an engineering leader
• You ask why before what, and what before how
• You are highly focused on execution and delivering business impact
• You thrive in environments with meaningful scope, urgency and accountability

• Bachelor’s…