Engineering Manager

Join to apply for the Engineering Manager role at Betterment 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 (Four days/ week in-office). 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. 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. 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. What Being At Betterment Means For You We change lives. Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people's lives better. We set audacious goals. We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We value all perspectives. When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community. We Invest In You With: A competitive suite of benefits, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits. Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!) Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business Dedicated professional development opportunities Lunch from our in-house chef at our NYC headquarters EEO Statement Betterment is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Betterment