Engineering Manager
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$ 170000 - 195000
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Job Description
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 peoples lives better. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (three days/ week in-office).
About the role
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. Were 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 youll help lead us through a period of important growth and maturation as the advisor business continues to thrive. Youll collaborate closely with product engineering and cross-functional leadership to execute on a product roadmap with your team. Youll also get the opportunity to help plan and lead projects as well as achieve operational excellence in everything we do. Youll 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 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 performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterments total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $170000 - $195000
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 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
What were 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 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 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
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 in-house 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 3-4 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 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 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 age-identifying 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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Betterment participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration and if necessary the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employees Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
