Sr. Engineering Manager, Application Security

About Betterment

Betterment is a leading technology-driven financial services company that offers investing savings 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 to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).

About the Role:

As a Senior Engineering Manager leading the Betterment Security teams Application Security squad youll collaborate closely with engineering teams across the company as your squad helps developers build secure software by default. Your team shapes how Betterment threat models new systems reviews designs manages vulnerabilities and equips engineers with the tools libraries and guardrails that make the secure path the easy path.

Youll work with team and company leadership to develop and drive a mission-aligned roadmap and manage its execution with your team. Youll also partner with engineers on your team and beyond to identify and advocate for the work that will most meaningfully reduce risk to Betterment and our customers. Youll play a crucial role in balancing proactive security investments alongside response and remediation all while helping mentor and grow a team of amazing engineers.

At Betterment security is foundational to the trust our customers place in us with their financial lives. Our Application Security squad empowers and enables the entire engineering organization and works closely with product and platform teams to deliver controls tooling and partnerships that let us deliver value to Betterments customers and clients without compromising on safety. Members of this team have a love for solving interesting security challenges and improving the lives of our developers in ways that move our engineering organization and the business forward. Youll be a part of a team thats tackling difficult questions of secure design at scale in a deeply regulated industry where the stakes are real.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below weve reflected the base salary range 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: $00

This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

A Day in the Life:

• Oversee the development of paved roads libraries and guardrails that make it easier for our developers to commit test build deploy and operate code securely by default.
• Build and maintain the threat modeling design review and vulnerability management programs that protect our customers our employees and the business.
• Drive the adoption of AI across AppSec operations to achieve scaled security workflows creating leverage for senior engineers.
• Lead and mentor engineers on Betterments senior-leaning AppSec squad.
• Establish strong lines of communication with stakeholders across engineering product legal compliance and risk to understand and deeply support the needs of teams building products across all business lines and divisions of Betterment.
• Inspire and maintain a strong equitable engineering culture founded on transparency inclusivity mentorship and collaboration.
• Continuously innovate and seek out ways to meet the near- and long-term strategic security needs of our complex org.

What Were Looking For:

• Expertise across the application security stack: secure SDLC threat modeling secure design review code review vulnerability management and the cloud-native ecosystem (AWS containers Kubernetes CI/CD).
• Experience with hands-on managing mentoring and inspiring a team of talented security engineers including senior engineers. Demonstrated success as a true player-coach is a must.
• Experience establishing or scaling a Security Champions or distributed threat modeling program with a focus on empowering engineering squads to own security outcomes and integrating these practices into the existing software development lifecycle.
• Experience leading execution of large team initiatives and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted security tools and a curiosity for exploring how AI can enhance both security workflows and the security posture of the AI-powered features our engineers are building.
• A real passion for application security and for empowering developers to do the right thing easily.
• Experience collaborating with other engineering teams product managers subject matter experts and non-technical stakeholders such as legal compliance and risk.

Join a team built on these core values

We change lives

Be a part of a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact always laddering up to our mission; to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company our customers and ourselves and 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 simplify financial services

Were financial services pioneers always finding new ways to improve optimize and enhance. Constant improvement is in our DNA.

Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being:

• We offer a competitive suite of benefits including medical dental and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
• Ownership: Equity for all employees including new hire and refresher grants.
• Time: Flexible paid time off paid parental leave and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.
• Growth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
• Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.

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.

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Come join us!

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