You're a seasoned engineering leader experienced in managing and mentoring teams, with a strong background in software development toolchains, CI/CD, SLIs/SLOs,
Work type: hybrid
Location: Betterment HQ - New York City
Salary: $210,000 – $240,000/yr
Type: Full-time
You're a seasoned engineering leader experienced in managing and mentoring teams, with a strong background in software development toolchains, CI/CD, SLIs/SLOs, and Observability. Your player-coach mentality and proven success in building high-quality, production-value software are key. **What makes it worth a look...** This full-time, hybrid role at Betterment offers a competitive salary of $210,000 - $240,000/year, based in their New York City HQ. They provide a comprehensive benefits package including equity, health, dental, vision, disability insurance, and a 401(k) with employer match. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have hands-on experience managing and mentoring senior engineers. * Possess expertise in CI/CD pipelines, SLIs/SLOs, and Observability. * Are familiar with AI-assisted development tools and their application. * Have experience leading the execution of large and concurrent projects.
## About Betterment
[Betterment](http://www.betterment.com/) is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing, savings and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission, to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office, with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).
## About the Role
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.
This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.
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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.
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