Senior Backend Engineering Manager, Broker Dealer

Betterment; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Betterment in New York City is seeking an Engineering Manager in Broker Dealer to balance on-time feature delivery with system stability and scale. You will mentor a team of backend engineers building trading technology powering our investing products.

You will oversee a team of individual contributors, align with other engineering managers, learn the codebase, and drive meaningful business impact while ensuring maintainability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 the 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.

Skills

Engineering management

Backend systems

Mentoring

Knowledge sharing

Ownership

Team building

Adaptive leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategy to execution

Job description

Betterment in New York City is seeking an Engineering Manager in Broker Dealer to balance on-time feature delivery with system stability and scale. You will mentor a team of backend engineers building trading technology powering our investing products.

You will oversee a team of individual contributors, align with other engineering managers, learn the codebase, and drive meaningful business impact while ensuring maintainability and reliability.