Senior Engineering Manager, Betterment
Site Reliability Engineering
$210-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Automated investing & financial planning
Open for applications
Automated investing & financial planning
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$210-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in software development toolchains and environments, CI/CD pipelines, SLIs/SLOs, and Observability
- Experience with hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring a team of talented engineers, including senior engineers. Demonstrated success as a true player-coach is a must
- Experience building important, high production-value software where quality and correctness matters while preserving a nimble, fluid, highly productive culture and workflow
- Experience leading execution of large team projects and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a curiosity for exploring how AI can enhance developer productivity and code quality
- A real passion for software engineering and improving the developer experience
- Experience collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, and non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Betterment SRE team’s Developer Experience squad, you’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams across the company as your squad guides an engineer’s journey from commit to production, empowering developers with a collection of development tools, streamlined workflows, and fast and efficient feedback loops
- You’ll develop and own a mission-aligned roadmap and manage its execution with your team
- You’ll also partner with engineers on your team and beyond to identify and advocate for work that will allow our engineers to continue executing at a high level
- You’ll play a crucial role in balancing delivery of new capabilities alongside system stability and scale, all while helping mentor and grow a team of amazing engineers
- At Betterment, our Site Reliability Engineering squads empower and enable the entire engineering organization through a depth of experience in driving the engineering standards of the organization
- They influence and shape a technical future that’s qualitatively better than our status quo
- Our SRE squads and the broader Platform org work closely with product teams to deliver infrastructure and tooling that enables us to deliver value to Betterment's customers and clients
- Members of this team have a love for solving interesting technical challenges and improving the lives of our developers in ways that move our engineering organization and the business forward
- You’ll be a part of a team that’s tackling difficult questions of scale, architecture, and interaction
- Oversee the development of semantically rich abstractions for every aspect of the development process, making it easier for our developers to commit, test, build, deploy, and observe code
- Build and maintain frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that enable our engineering teams to run faster and build better
- Guide teams in effectively leveraging AI-powered development tools and help integrate AI capabilities into developer workflows, where they add value
- Lead and mentor engineers on Betterment's senior-leaning DevEx squad
- Establish strong lines of communication with stakeholders to understand and deeply support the needs of the engineering 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 needs of our complex org
Application process
- 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!
Our take
Betterment is an app-based investment platform that provides personal finance data and guidance to retail users through a range of real-world data and AI analytics to deliver investment advice to customers.
The company has become the largest independent digital investment advisor in the U.S. Having expanded its 401k business, Betterment has entered the world of Crypto, partnering with Gemini to offer customized crypto portfolios and its "Crypto Investing by Betterment" platform.
Betterment has a wealth of competition in this increasingly crowded space. Other robo advisors offering similar services include Moneyfarm, Wealth Simple, M1 Finance and Personal Capital. Going forward, Betterment hopes to further distance itself from rivals as it further innovates its platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$60m
SERIES F
Jul 2017
$70m
SERIES E
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Compensation & Ownership: Competitive, benchmarked salary. Equity for everyone, including new hire, performance, and refresher grants.
- Retirement: 401(k) match from day one, including Student loan matching. Zero management fees.
- Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. One Medical membership. Fertility and LGBTQIA+ transition support.
- Time Away: Flexible time off. Paid parental leave for all parents. Four-week sabbatical in year six.
- In-Office Culture & Flexibility: An in-person, collaborative culture, with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays.
- Growth & Development: Free Coaching for everyone and continuous development.
- Community & Care: Chef lunches, guest speakers, company gatherings, heritage celebrations, and seven Employee Resource Groups.
- Employee Support: Dedicated benefits advocate and EAP access.
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Sarah Kirshbaum Levy
(CEO)Prior to joining Betterment in 2020, Sarah served as the COO for Viacom Media Networks.
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