Engineering Manager

Wealthfront is looking for a manager with experience leading agile engineering teams. The ideal candidate will be capable of driving the team independently, in close partnership with tech leads and product owners. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for empowering our engineers, supporting their technical and professional growth and delivering on key projects. Engineering managers at Wealthfront have strong input into the evolution of the engineering organization as a whole. 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other functional teams (product management, design, product specialists, brokerage operations)

• Monitor team productivity, remove roadblocks, identify and implement improvements to our process, and act as scrum master for the team

• Promote success for team members along their career path at Wealthfront

• Facilitate the exchange of information among all Wealthfront employees in a systematic manner

• Lead effective organizational improvement within our company

• 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

Requirements:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience, 4+ years engineering management experience

• Experience shipping consumer Internet products as an individual contributor

• 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

• Proficient in agile methodologies

Everyone across the financial spectrum deserves to live secure and rewarding lives. In order to successfully serve clients across the United States, the Wealthfront team is focused on hiring team members with a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About Wealthfront:

Wealthfront started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business, with the goal to unlock access to high quality investment advice for millions who were underserved by the traditional institutions. We built the first automated investment product that allows you to invest in a personalized portfolio of thousands of companies in seconds for a remarkably low fee; we then expanded into banking which made it remarkably easy for people to automate their finances end-to-end and eliminated the hassle of money management, all of which resulted in attracting more than $27 billion of our client’s hard earned savings, created the robo-advisor category and transformed the broader industry. And yet, we have a long way to go to achieve our mission to build a financial system that favors people, not institutions. 

Wealthfront’s vision is to make it delightfully easy to build long-term wealth on your own terms. This vision is more relevant than ever because millions more people are getting into the market early and investing their hard earned savings in a handful of stocks. While this is a great way to start, it is inconsistent with building long-term wealth. We want to empower young investors to expand their horizon, and easily explore and execute on a wider range of investing strategies, make informed investment decisions that are consistent with their values and beliefs while also making it effortless to grow and compound their savings exponentially, that’s transformational to their lives and their long-term future.