Engineering Manager: Lead High-Impact Engineer Teams

Wealthfront; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision & Dental

401K matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Wellness reimbursement

Professional development

Employee investing discount

Job summary

Wealthfront Engineering is seeking a hands-on engineering manager to lead a 6-10 person team responsible for building and operating core financial software. You will coach developers, guide designs, and partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver value.

You will foster a culture of automation, performance, and ownership while shaping the engineering organization through hiring, reviews, and process improvements.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years as a software engineer developing and operating core systems.
• 1+ years engineering management experience.
• Track record of leading productive engineering teams.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, coaching and developing engineers into top performers.
• Understanding of successful team dynamics and how your role as a manager fits into this process.
• Passionate about collaborative problem solving.
• Eagerness to solve challenging problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6-10 engineers in execution and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with the tech leads and other functions (product management, design, product support, brokerage operations) to understand and respond to changing priorities.
• Monitor and improve team productivity, remove roadblocks, identify and implement improvements to our process, and act as scrum master for the team.
• Facilitate the exchange of information among all Wealthfront employees in a systematic manner.
• Lead or contribute to effective organizational improvement within the engineering organization or Wealthfront.
• Combine data-driven process and human empathy to iteratively develop and assess our collective teams and individual team members.
• Evaluate technical abilities of individual engineers, in order to match them with projects which demonstrate their strengths and stretch them to grow.
• Partner with Recruiting to build well‑rounded, effective, and inclusive engineering teams

Skills

Engineering management

Software engineering

People development

Hiring & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Wealthfront Engineering is seeking a hands-on engineering manager to lead a 6-10 person team responsible for building and operating core financial software. You will coach developers, guide designs, and partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver value.

You will foster a culture of automation, performance, and ownership while shaping the engineering organization through hiring, reviews, and process improvements.