Senior Engineering Manager

savvy; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity package

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) and commuter benefits

NYC office in Manhattan

Lunch in office

Mental health support and EAP

Job summary

Savvy Wealth is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead three engineering teams building the AI-enabled wealth platform. You will translate product direction into technical execution, mentor senior engineers, and maintain high quality as we scale.

This is a hands-on leadership role based in NYC with a remote LATAM team aligning to the same hours. You’ll drive architecture, code reviews, and engineering standards across product and platform work, leveraging AI tooling to boost velocity and

Qualifications

• Experience leading remote or distributed engineering teams.
• 3+ years managing engineers, including delivery, performance, hiring, and growth.
• Proficient with AI tools in daily workflow and translating that into team execution.
• Track record of end-to-end shipping of complex product and platform work with measurable impact.
• Strong full-stack or platform engineering depth across the stack (Rails, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL).
• Excellent written and verbal communication across functions in a startup.
• Willingness to relocate to NYC and work in person at HQ.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery health across three engineering teams and ensure predictable shipping.
• Grow and retain a high-performing team through coaching and feedback.
• Lead hiring for the three teams and maintain a tight interview loop.
• Stay hands-on: review code, set engineering patterns, and make architectural calls.
• Champion AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to raise velocity.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to scope work and de-risk high-ambiguity problems.

Skills

Remote team management

Engineering leadership

AI tooling proficiency

Full-stack depth

System design

Excellent communication

Hiring & team growth

Tools

Rails

React

Next.js

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Job description

About Savvy Wealth:

Wealth management is a $545 billion industry that still runs on manual work. 75% of advisors offer no digital communication beyond email, and most still build financial plans by hand in Excel. Savvy is reinventing what it looks like to be a financial advisor. Founder Ritik Malhotra saw the fragmentation firsthand after seeking out his own advisor, and started Savvy to give independent advisors a modern, AI-native home.

Savvy is a registered investment advisor (RIA), and we partner with experienced financial advisors who want to grow without running the back office themselves. Advisors bring their book and join Savvy, running under their own brand (or ours), and Savvy earns a percentage of the assets they manage. In return, they get a true business-in-a-box: a proprietary tech platform and client portal, an in-house marketing team that helps them grow, a world-class investment management team, and a dedicated client services team that runs day-to-day operations and support. Advisors at Savvy service up to 50% more households and save 19 hours a week.

AI runs through everything we do. On the product side, Savvy Intelligence (released April 2026) is the only AI built for wealth managers that can see a client's complete financial picture. Internally, everyone at Savvy uses Claude and is encouraged to experiment with it, backed by a dedicated AI enablement team and a RevOps org building agents in-house.

The trajectory is steep and it's still early. We're a Series C company with 170+ people, $200M raised, and $100M ARR in sight this year. Inc. ranked us the No. 1 fastest-growing financial services company in America in 2026. Come build the next stage with us!

Recognition:

We're a Certified Great Place to Work and have been honored for our culture and our growth:

• Newsweek's America's Greatest Startup Workplaces (2026)

• Fortune Best Workplaces in New York (2026)

• Great Place to Work Certified

The role

Savvy is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead three engineering teams building the platform where AI meets fiduciary advice. You'll inherit three established, high-performing teams, each anchored by a senior tech lead who owns day-to-day technical direction. Your job is to keep those teams shipping high-impact product and platform work, keep the engineers on them growing, and hold the technical and quality bar as we scale.

This is a hands-on management role. You're based in our NYC HQ, working in person alongside the Product Managers, Product Designers, and stakeholders who shape what we build, and you manage a fully remote engineering team across LATAM that works the same hours we do. You're the bridge between the two: translating product direction into clear technical execution, and bringing engineering reality back into how we plan. AI tooling has let our managers stay genuinely technical while they lead, and we expect the same here. You'll review the hard changes and make architectural calls, not from the sidelines.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery health across three teams: predictable shipping, sane scope, and unblocking engineers fast, in close partnership with Product and Design.

• Grow and retain a strong team: coaching, career development, substantive feedback, and keeping your engineers engaged and leveling up.

• Drive our hiring process for these teams: raising the bar on who we bring in and running a tight, fair loop.

• Stay hands-on with the code: review complex changes, set and hold engineering patterns and standards across product and platform work, and make architectural calls with your tech leads.

• Champion AI tooling across the team (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and whatever's next), modeling it in your own work and raising the team's velocity with it.

• Partner with Product and Design at HQ to shape scope and de-risk execution on high-ambiguity problems, and carry that context clearly to a remote team.

Must have

• Experience managing remote or distributed engineering teams.

• 3+ years managing engineers, including owning delivery, performance, hiring, and growth for a team.

• You use AI tools aggressively in your daily workflow: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and whatever else is useful. You're ahead of the curve on what's emerging, you stay technically proficient because of it, and you translate that into how your team builds.

• A track record of shipping complex product and platform work end-to-end with measurable business impact, and holding the quality bar throughout.

• Strong full-stack or platform engineering depth, enough to lead and review with credibility. We use Rails, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL; you're comfortable across the stack or close gaps fast.

• Strong system-design judgment: data models, service boundaries, failure modes, and how systems hold up at scale, applied to guiding architecture and raising the team's instincts.

• Strong communication: you write clearly, give effective feedback, and collaborate well across functions in a startup environment, including with a remote team.

• Based in or willing to relocate to NYC and work in person at our HQ.

Nice to have

• You've built AI-powered features customers rely on in production: LLM integrations, agentic workflows, intelligent automations, or similar, and you understand the real tradeoffs around reliability, latency, cost, and failure modes.

• Fintech domain knowledge: financial services, wealth management, regulatory compliance, or financial data integrations.

• Experience leading in an early-stage, high-ambiguity startup environment.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity package

• Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays

• Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans

• Company 401(k), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans

• NYC office in the heart of Manhattan

• Lunch and snacks provided in the office

• Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health) and health concierge (Rightway) to help you find the right care

• Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)