Sr Engineering Manager Backend
Sr Engineering Manager Backend
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$ 210000 - 235000
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About Betterment
Betterment is a leading technologydriven 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 mediumsized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making peoples lives better. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NYbased positions (three days/ week inoffice).
About the role
As an Engineering Manager in Broker Dealer youll help balance ontime delivery of new B/D features alongside system stability and scale all while helping mentor and grow a team of talented engineers. Broker Dealer is the core of the Betterment platform. On any given day we need to securely move millions of dollars through the Betterment system. At the same time every transaction must flow through a complicated series of risk checks to ensure strict regulatory compliance. Every ounce of efficiency and intelligence we pour into this system translates into more value for our customers. Were looking for an Engineering leader to contribute to answering our most difficult backend scaling software design and optimization questions. While we dont expect you to code on a daily basis we do expect you to quickly familiarize yourself with the tech stack codebase and specific business domains so that you can better support the teams mission and deliver meaningful business impact. This role will be overseeing a team of individual contributors and will work closely with other engineering managers in Broker Dealer.
This role is based out of our NYC office. Below weve 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 interview performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterments total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $210000 $235000
We offer a competitive equity package health dental and vision benefits and a 401(k) offering with employer match as well as flexible PTO policy. This job is eligible for variable compensation in the form of a discretionary 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
- Manage a team of 58 backend engineers who build innovative trading moneymovement and record keeping technology that powers our investing products.
- Foster career development and align roadmap opportunities with each engineers growth interests keeping them technically engaged.
- Cultivate a team culture that values accountability constructive feedback and celebrates successes.
- Be a handson technical mentor by regularly diving into the codebase participating in code reviews partnering with stakeholders to shape solutions and driving effective technical decisionmaking.
- Champion maintainability and reliability by advocating for the longterm stability of the technology your team builds.
- Balance the need for speed with the importance of correctness and quality in every project your team undertakes.
- Drive process improvements to ensure daytoday effectiveness within the team.
- Continuously refine team processes and practices to deliver highimpact highquality outcomes for the business.
- Develop deep domain and industry knowledge to be a highly effective partner across internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering leaders Operations Legal and Compliance teams to ensure we consistently deliver the right solutions in the right way.
What were looking for
- 3 years of experience in formal Engineering Management of direct reports.
- Experience managing mentoring and inspiring talented engineers guiding them toward excellence in both professional growth and project outcomes.
- 5 years of experience in building and maintaining backend distributed systems using Java or a similar programming language.
- Comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases to support and unblock the team.
- A proven track record to rapidly close knowledge gaps enhancing productivity and establishing trust within the organization.
- A track record of fostering accountability and ownership motivating teams to take initiative and consistently deliver.
- Experience cultivating highperforming teams that balance speed of with the necessary rigor to maintain quality.
- Ability to adjust leadership style to meet the evolving needs of the team and the business.
- Effective collaborator capable of working with other engineering teams product managers subject matter experts nontechnical stakeholders and third party vendors to build and ship high quality software.
- Ability to translate business strategy into Engineering initiatives that drive meaningful outcomes.
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 peoples lives better.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company our customers and ourselvesand we wont stop until we reach them. We dont just show up; we give our all then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate were 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 inhouse chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters
What happens next
Well take a few weeks to review all applications. If wed like to spend more time with you well reach out to arrange next steps which will include 34 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process well 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 35 weeks to make a hiring decision depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice we aim to interview at least 23 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions were 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.
Please note that in any materials you submit you mayredactor remove ageidentifying information such as age date of birth or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized forredactingor removing this information.
Come join us!
Were an equal opportunity employer and comply 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 (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual) 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.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
