# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Betterment](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/betterment)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $170k – $205k/yr
**Skills:** Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, Java, Python, Full-Stack, JavaScript
**Posted:** 2026-02-11

> Engineering Manager leads a full-stack team building financial wellness software, acting as player-coach to deliver intuitive user experiences. Requires hands-on engineering experience with Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL and strong leadership skills.

## Job Description

## A day in the life
- Lead and manage a team of engineers who work in a full-stack ecosystem.
- Serve as an effective player-coach, using direct project leadership and contributions to gain first-hand expertise into the world of financial wellness.
- Build things people love. Our goal is to delight our customers whenever possible. Sleek design, simple user experience, and access to sophisticated advice.
- Collaborate with product managers, staff engineers and subject matter experts to make sure the team is always building the right stuff and doing so thoughtfully.
- Inspire and maintain a strong, equitable engineering culture founded on transparency, inclusivity, mentorship, and collaboration.
- Drive roadmaps, mitigate risks, and ensure the team is continuing to deliver towards the business goals.

## What we're looking for
- Experience leading and contributing to full-stack web engineering projects. Our primary web application is built in **Ruby on Rails**, but we build our newest web interfaces using a combination of **React** and **GraphQL**. Other server-side languages, like **Java** or **Python** could be a good foundation.
- Experience with establishing and upholding team culture through healthy team norms, processes, and inclusive practices.
- Experience with hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring an established team of talented engineers.
- Experience leading execution of large team projects and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers.
- Experience building important, high production-value software where quality and correctness matters while preserving a nimble, fluid, highly productive culture and workflow.
- A passion for developing your reports and helping craft opportunities for them to grow into continually more impactful team members.
- A love of software engineering and a willingness to get into the code to better understand the sophisticated business domains we work in.
- Experience collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with stakeholders in your area to produce roadmaps for your team.
- Experience setting and holding your team accountable to ambitious goals.

**Compensation (New York City):** $170,000 - $205,000 base salary, plus competitive equity, health benefits, 401(k) match, flexible PTO, and potential bonus.

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