Sr. Engineering Manager, App Platform
Leads a team of mobile platform engineers building shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling for customer-facing apps. Hands-on manager with React Native expertise, driving migrations, mentoring engineers, and aligning platform strategy with business needs in a hybrid NYC role.
A Day in the Life
- Manage a team platform mobile engineers building shared mobile frameworks, libraries, driving migrations and developer tooling that power Betterment’s customer-facing applications.
- Foster career development and align platform roadmap opportunities with each engineer’s growth interests, keeping them technically engaged and challenged.
- Cultivate a team culture that values agility, accountability, constructive feedback, and celebrates successes.
- Be a hands-on technical mentor: dive into the codebase regularly, participate in code reviews, partner with stakeholders to shape solutions, and drive effective technical decision-making.
- Lead medium-to-large scale platform initiatives — such as cross-cutting migrations and shared library rollouts — balancing tradeoffs to deliver high-quality solutions continuously and iteratively.
- Champion maintainability and reliability by advocating for the long-term stability of the mobile platform your team builds.
- Balance speed of delivery with 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.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and fellow mobile engineers to ensure platform capabilities align with business and customer needs.
- Identify and address strategic technical challenges with long-term impact across Betterment’s mobile engineering organization.
- Develop deep domain and industry knowledge to be a highly effective partner across internal and external stakeholders.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in formal Engineering Management of direct reports.
- Experience building and maintaining mobile applications, with strong expertise in mobile technologies and React Native development; familiarity with the underlying iOS and Android platforms required.
- Hands on experience designing and maintaining shared mobile libraries, frameworks, or platform infrastructure for use across multiple product teams.
- Proven ability to be a hands-on technical contributor: comfortable reviewing code, contributing to architectural decisions, and engaging directly with the codebase when needed.
- Experience managing, mentoring, and inspiring talented engineers, guiding them toward excellence in both professional growth and project outcomes.
- Familiarity with React Native and/or Flutter, GraphQL and mobile networking best practices.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance considerations in mobile applications.
- Experience leading large platform migrations and driving cross-team adoption.
- A history of fostering accountability and ownership, motivating teams to take initiative and consistently deliver right-sized solutions.
- Ability to translate business strategy into engineering initiatives that drive delivery of meaningful outcomes.
- Strong track record leading projects, driving adoption of platform improvements, and making pragmatic tradeoffs while maintaining quality.
- Effective collaborator capable of working with other engineering teams, product managers, design, non-technical stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
- Passion for software engineering, developer experience, and creating what doesn’t yet exist.
- Appreciation for agility and pragmatism in software development; ability to thrive in a startup-like environment balancing autonomy with collaboration.
Compensation: New York City: $200,000-230,000. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.
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