Betterment 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 RoleAs 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.
- New York City: $210,000 - $240,000
This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.
A Day in the Life:- Oversee the development of semantically rich abstractions for every aspect of the development process, making it easier for our developers to commit, test, build, deploy, and observe code.
- Build and maintain frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that enable our engineering teams to run faster and build better.
- Guide teams in effectively leveraging AI-powered development tools and help integrate AI capabilities into developer workflows, where they add value.
- Lead and mentor engineers on Betterment's senior-leaning DevEx squad.
- Establish strong lines of communication with stakeholders to understand and deeply support the needs of the engineering teams building products across all business lines and divisions of Betterment.
- Inspire and maintain a strong, equitable engineering culture founded on transparency, inclusivity, mentorship, and collaboration.
- Continuously innovate and seek out ways to meet the near- and long-term strategic needs of our complex org.
- Expertise in software development toolchains and environments, CI/CD pipelines, SLIs/SLOs, and Observability.
- Experience with hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring a team of talented engineers, including senior engineers. Demonstrated success as a true player-coach is a must.
- Experience building important, high production-value software where quality and correctness matters while preserving a nimble, fluid, highly productive culture and workflow.
- Experience leading execution of large team projects and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a curiosity for exploring how AI can enhance developer productivity and code quality.
- A real passion for software engineering and improving the developer experience.
- Experience collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, and non-technical stakeholders.
We change lives
Be a part of a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission; to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves, and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
We simplify financial services
We’re financial services pioneers, always finding new ways to improve, optimize, and enhance. Constant improvement is in our DNA.
Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being:
- We offer a competitive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
- Ownership: Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants.
- Time: Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.
- Growth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
- Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.
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.
On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.
Please note that in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Come join us!
We’re an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Skills Required
- Expertise in software development toolchains and environments
- Experience with managing and mentoring a team of engineers
- Experience building high production-value software
- Experience leading execution of large team projects
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
- Passion for software engineering and improving developer experience
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders
Betterment Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Betterment and has not been reviewed or approved by Betterment.
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Retirement Support — Day-one 401(k) matching and student-loan matching are highlighted, with employees paying zero management fees on company accounts. Feedback suggests these financial-wellness features are unusually robust for a mid-size fintech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible PTO and a four-week sabbatical at year six are positioned as meaningful time-away benefits. Feedback suggests these provisions contribute to positive work-life balance perceptions.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants for all employees (new-hire, performance, and refreshers) are emphasized as part of total compensation. Feedback suggests ownership opportunities add meaningful value alongside salary.
Betterment Insights
What We Do
Betterment is the largest independent digital investment advisor in the U.S., offering investing and retirement solutions alongside their everyday services for spending and saving. Using cutting-edge technology, expert advice, automated money management tools, and tax-smart strategies, they empower hundreds of thousands of customers to manage their money—for today, tomorrow, and someday.
Why Work With Us
At Betterment, we revolutionize the way people manage their money through innovative technology and personalized guidance. With a culture of empowerment, endless growth opportunities, and focus on a well-balanced life, working at Betterment means being part of our mission of making people’s lives better.
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