Engineering Manager - Wealth Management App

This is a senior technical leadership opportunity with a partner company focused on building and scaling financial products used by millions of customers. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, product partnership, and delivery ownership.

About the role

You will lead a high-performing engineering team spanning frontend, backend, and full-stack development. The role is ideal for an engineering leader who enjoys staying close to technology while building teams and products that create meaningful customer and business impact. This is a fully remote position based in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a high-performing engineering team across frontend, backend, and full-stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring teams deliver quickly while maintaining reliability, scalability, and technical quality.
• Partner with Product, Design, Mobile, Backend, and AI teams to translate ambiguous product challenges into clear technical strategies and execution plans.
• Drive architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure, distributed systems, and customer-facing applications.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards covering code quality, system design, testing, observability, security, and production reliability.
• Stay technically engaged through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging sessions, and critical engineering decisions.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers through regular feedback, performance management, clear expectations, and career development.
• Identify performance and capability gaps early and take ownership of raising the team's engineering and execution standards.
• Improve development processes, tooling, automation, and engineering practices to help the team move faster and operate effectively at scale.
• Own production outcomes beyond release by monitoring systems, responding to incidents, identifying root causes, and implementing preventative improvements.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, technical excellence, continuous improvement, and consistently shipped outcomes.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background with a proven history of building and shipping production-grade systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• Strong technical depth across areas such as backend and frontend development, APIs, databases, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to make sound architectural and technical trade-offs while balancing delivery speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Proven experience taking products or systems from initial concept through development, launch, and production operations.
• Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions, and debugging complex production problems.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching engineers, managing performance, setting expectations, and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong product sense and the ability to connect technical decisions with customer needs and measurable business outcomes.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, establishing priorities, and creating clarity for teams in fast-moving environments.
• Strong ownership mentality, with a willingness to take responsibility for delivery challenges, production issues, and team outcomes.
• Demonstrated technical career highlights, such as personally building, shipping, scaling, or significantly improving a meaningful product, platform, or engineering organization.
• Strong English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across international teams, time zones, and disciplines.
• Ability to remain close enough to the technology to provide meaningful technical guidance rather than focusing exclusively on people management.

Benefits

• Fully remote opportunity with a globally distributed team spanning multiple countries and time zones.
• Work alongside colleagues from diverse backgrounds in a fast-moving global organization.
• Build and scale financial products serving millions of users.
• Shape engineering culture, technical standards, architecture, and delivery practices across major product areas.
• Opportunity to develop both technical leadership and people-management capabilities.
• High-autonomy environment with significant ownership over technical decisions, team performance, and product delivery.
• Fast hiring process with strong candidates potentially progressing from assessment to offer within approximately one week.
• Collaborative culture working closely with product, design, mobile, backend, AI, and other cross-functional teams.
• Environment that values experimentation, technical excellence, ownership, and practical execution.