Engineering Manager

About Betterment

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (three days/ week in-office).

The Advisor Portfolio Controls team aims to build the best full-service investment management platform in the industry. The team operates as part of Betterment Advisor Solutions, the all-in-one custodial platform for independent RIAs, and this team focuses on empowering financial advisors with the tools to manage their clients’ portfolios. Our team holds a high amount of pride in building high-quality user experiences to simplify portfolio management for complex needs.

We’re looking for a technical leader to drive this team forward while upholding high standards in quality and execution, all in service of our customers.

As an Engineering Manager on this team, you’ll help lead us through a period of important growth and maturation as the advisor business continues to thrive. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering and cross-functional leadership to execute on a product roadmap with your team. You’ll also get the opportunity to help plan and lead projects as well as achieve operational excellence in everything we do.

You’ll constantly be navigating new intricacies of our domain and collaborating tightly with other engineering leaders and stakeholders of different backgrounds, all while helping mentor and grow a team of amazing engineers.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. 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 Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.

• Lead and manage ~4-5 full-stack engineers on a relatively new team. We work in a full-stack ecosystem and value a quality user experience as much as proper backend fundamentals
• Serve as an effective player-coach, using direct project leadership and contributions to gain first-hand expertise into the world of financial advisors and financial portfolios
• Build tools advisors love. Our goal is to empower financial advisors to manage their clients’ portfolios in a modern, sleek, straightforward user experience, even when presenting complex subject material
• 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

• 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 Graph
  
  QL. 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 a talented team of full-stack engineers
• Experience leading execution of large team projects and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers
• Experience connecting product roadmaps and technical investments to contribute to overall business objectives
• Experience…