Engineering Manager
at Betterment
New York, United States
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).
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. 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 Tuesday 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.
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 don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.
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, including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
- 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 three days a week at our NYC headquarters
What happens next
We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.
On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.
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Come join us!
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