Sr. Engineering Manager, Broker Dealer at Betterment · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager in Broker Dealer, you’ll lead a team building and evolving the backend systems that power Betterment’s trading and money movement infrastructure. This is a high-impact role in one of the most complex parts of our platform, where correctness, reliability, scale, and regulatory context all matter deeply.
Broker Dealer sits at the core of the Betterment platform. On a busy day, we securely move millions of dollars through our systems while ensuring every transaction flows through the right operational and risk checks to meet strict regulatory requirements. Every improvement in efficiency, quality, and decision-making in this area directly creates more value for our customers.
We’re looking for an engineering leader with strong people management fundamentals and strong technical judgment. You do not need to write production code every day to be successful in this role, but you do need to be technically credible: someone who can engage deeply in architecture and system design conversations, coach engineers through tradeoffs, raise the quality of code review discussions, and help a senior team make sound decisions in a complex domain. We also want someone who can help the team evolve how it works in an AI-enabled engineering environment, using new tools thoughtfully to increase leverage, improve decision quality, and maintain a high bar for correctness and craftsmanship.
This role will manage a team of individual contributors and partner closely with senior engineers, engineering managers, and cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Operations, Legal, and Compliance. It is especially well suited for someone who enjoys operating close to technical decisions, leading mature teams, and helping engineering organizations evolve how they work in a rapidly changing environment. 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–$245,000
This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.
A Day in the Life
Manage a team of 6-8 backend engineers building trading technology that powers Betterment’s investing products.
Foster career development and align roadmap opportunities with each engineer’s growth goals, while keeping them technically engaged and challenged.
Lead a senior team with clear expectations, healthy accountability, and a team culture grounded in agility, ownership, constructive feedback, and shared success.
Be a technically credible leader through thoughtful code review, system design feedback, architectural tradeoff discussions, and strong partnership with senior engineers.

Qualification

Strong people management fundamentalsExperience spotting repetitiveExperience in regulated systemsJoin a team built on these core valuesWe set audacious goalsWe set them for the company

Required

3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers in a formal engineering management role.
8+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems, ideally in complex, high-correctness environments.
Strong technical judgment in software design, architecture, and code review.
Experience leading or supporting senior engineers and helping high-performing teams continue to grow.
A track record of ramping quickly in complex domains, closing knowledge gaps, and building trust across technical and cross-functional partners.
Strong people management fundamentals, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and aligning engineers to meaningful work.
Experience fostering accountability and ownership while helping teams deliver high-quality, right-sized solutions.
Ability to adjust leadership style to meet the evolving needs of the team and the business.
Strong collaboration skills across engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, non-technical stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
Ability to translate business strategy and operational needs into engineering priorities that drive meaningful outcomes.
Good judgment about where AI can meaningfully improve team effectiveness, and where human review, domain expertise, and engineering rigor should remain primary.
Experience spotting repetitive, high-friction, or cognitively expensive team workflows and redesigning them with AI to create measurable leverage.

Preferred

Experience in regulated systems, financial infrastructure, trading, custody, ledgers, money movement, or other high-reliability backend domains.
Experience working with mature engineering teams where influence, judgment, and coaching matter as much as execution oversight.
Experience experimenting with or adopting AI-enabled engineering practices to improve team effectiveness without lowering quality standards.
Ability to distinguish between high-leverage AI use and low-quality generated output, and to guide engineers toward the former.
Join a team built on these core values
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.

Sr. Engineering Manager, Broker Dealer

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Company

Betterment

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