Engineering Manager: Lead High-Impact Teams

Wealthfront; New York (NY); On-site; USD 208,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental

401K matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Generous time off

Job summary

Wealthfront in New York seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a 6-10 person team of engineers, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with product, design, and supports functions.

You will mentor engineers, shape hiring, performance reviews, and project management, and push automation and quality as Wealthfront’s priorities. This role offers equity, competitive salary, and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years as a software engineer developing and operating 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

Lead teams

Hiring & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Scrum master

Problem solving

Engineering leadership

Performance coaching

Data-driven process

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

Wealthfront in New York seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a 6-10 person team of engineers, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with product, design, and supports functions.

You will mentor engineers, shape hiring, performance reviews, and project management, and push automation and quality as Wealthfront’s priorities. This role offers equity, competitive salary, and growth opportunities.