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Engineering Manager

Wealthfront· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (Palo Alto, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)$208k - $260kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Wealthfront is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers, drive organizational improvements, and balance hands-on technical leadership with people management in a hybrid, multi-city environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of 6-10 engineers in execution and operational excellence
  • Collaborate with the tech leads and other functions (product management, design, product support, brokerage operations) to understand and respond to changing priorities
  • Monitor and improve team productivity, remove roadblocks, identify and implement improvements to our process, and act as scrum master for the team
  • Facilitate the exchange of information among all Wealthfront employees in a systematic manner
  • Lead or contribute to effective organizational improvement within the engineering organization or Wealthfront
  • 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 demonstrate their strengths and stretch them to grow
  • Partner with Recruiting to build well-rounded, effective, and inclusive engineering teams

Qualifications

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years as a software engineer developing and operating systems within the core business
  • 1+ years engineering management experience
  • Track record of leading productive engineering teams
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, coaching and developing engineers into top performers
  • Understanding of successful team dynamics and how your role as a manager fits into this process
  • Passionately collaborative problem solving
  • Eagerness to solve challenging problems

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementSoftware engineeringHiring and mentoring

Benefits

  • medical, vision, dental
  • 401K matching
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • generous time off
  • parental leave
  • wellness reimbursements
  • professional development
  • employee investing discount
  • and more
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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