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About the Role

As an Engineering Manager in Broker Dealer, you'll help balance on-time delivery of new features alongside system stability and scale, while mentoring and growing a team of talented engineers. This role oversees a team of individual contributors and works closely with other engineering managers in Broker Dealer. You will quickly familiarize yourself with the tech stack, codebase, and specific business domains to support the team's mission and deliver meaningful business impact.

Responsibilities

Manage a team of 6-8 backend engineers who build innovative trading technology that powers our investing products.
Foster career development and align roadmap opportunities with each engineer’s growth interests, keeping them technically engaged.
Cultivate a team culture that values agility, accountability, constructive feedback, and celebrates successes.
Be a hands-on technical mentor by regularly diving into the codebase, participating in code reviews, partnering with stakeholders to shape solutions, and driving effective technical decision-making.
Champion maintainability and reliability by advocating for the long-term stability of the technology your team builds.
Balance the need for speed of delivery with the importance of correctness and quality in every project your team undertakes.
Continuously refine team processes and practices to deliver high-impact, high-quality outcomes for the business and ensure appropriately engineered solutions.
Develop deep domain and industry knowledge to be a highly effective partner across internal and external stakeholders.
Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal and Compliance teams to ensure we consistently deliver the right sized solutions to the right problems.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in formal Engineering Management of direct reports.
8+ years of experience in building and maintaining backend distributed systems using Java or a similar strongly typed programming language.
Experience managing, mentoring, and inspiring talented engineers, guiding them toward excellence in both professional growth and project outcomes.
A proven track record to rapidly close knowledge gaps, enhancing productivity and establishing trust within the organization.
A history of fostering accountability and ownership, motivating teams to take initiative and consistently deliver right sized solutions.
Experience cultivating high-performing teams that focus on speed of execution and the 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, non-technical stakeholders and third party vendors to build and ship high quality software.
Ability to translate business strategy into Engineering initiatives that drive delivery of meaningful outcomes.

Location

NYC
New York City

Work Type

Hybrid

Salary/Compensations

$210,000-245,000

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Life and AD&D insurance
Short- and long-term disability
Infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants
Flexible paid time off
Paid parental leave
Fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year
Company-paid professional coaching for all employees
Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments

About the Company

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.
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 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 simplify financial services: We’re financial services pioneers, always finding new ways to improve, optimize, and enhance. Constant improvement is in our DNA.

Equal Opportunity

We’re 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.