Engineering Manager

Wealthfront is the only robo-advisor to offer both investment management and financial planning exclusively through software. Because of this approach, we've quickly become the automated advisor of choice among young people. Anyone can open a Wealthfront investment account with $500 to access a unique Passive+ investment strategy that includes a combination of a diversified portfolio of ETFs and tax minimization strategies.

Our engineers write test-driven code in a continuous deployment environment. We deploy to production many times a day. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for empowering our engineers and supporting their technical and professional growth.

• Collaborate with other functional teams (product management, design, customer service)
• Monitor team productivity, remove roadblocks, identify and implement improvements to our process
• 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 hyper-growth 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 leverage their strengths and stretch them to grow
• Provide technical guidance and training to engineers building distributed systems in Java
• Partner with Recruiting to build well-rounded, effective, and inclusive engineering teams

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 4+ years engineering experience (post-degree) and at least 1-2 years management experience
• Experience shipping consumer Internet products as an individual contributor
• Recent hands-on coding experience in Java
• Track record of leading productive engineering teams
• Experience hiring, mentoring, coaching and developing top engineering talent
• Understanding of successful team dynamics and how your role as a manager fits into this process
• Enthusiastic about collaborative problem solving
• Eagerness to solve challenging problems