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