Sr. Engineering Manager, App Platform
About Betterment
Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing, savings and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission, to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office, with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).
About the Role
As a Senior App Platform Engineering Manager at Betterment, you will lead the Mobile Platform team while staying deeply connected to the technical work that powers our applications. This is a unique opportunity to blend engineering leadership with hands-on mobile platform expertise — guiding a team of talented engineers building the shared frameworks, infrastructure, and tooling that mobile product teams rely on every day.
You will be the connective tissue between people leadership and technical excellence: mentoring engineers, shaping platform strategy, and rolling up your sleeves to ensure the right architectural decisions are made. Betterment’s mobile platform enables engineers across the company to ship great code confidently, and you’ll be responsible for making that possible at scale.
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: $200,000-230,000
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 platform mobile engineers building shared mobile frameworks, libraries, driving migrations and developer tooling that power Betterment’s customer-facing applications.
- Foster career development and align platform roadmap opportunities with each engineer’s growth interests, keeping them technically engaged and challenged.
- Cultivate a team culture that values agility, accountability, constructive feedback, and celebrates successes.
- Be a hands-on technical mentor: dive into the codebase regularly, participate in code reviews, partner with stakeholders to shape solutions, and drive effective technical decision-making.
- Lead medium-to-large scale platform initiatives — such as cross-cutting migrations and shared library rollouts — balancing tradeoffs to deliver high-quality solutions continuously and iteratively.
- Champion maintainability and reliability by advocating for the long-term stability of the mobile platform your team builds.
- Balance speed of delivery with correctness and quality in every project your team undertakes.
- Continuously refine team processes and practices to deliver high-impact, high-quality outcomes for the business.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and fellow mobile engineers to ensure platform capabilities align with business and customer needs.
- Identify and address strategic technical challenges with long-term impact across Betterment’s mobile engineering organization.
- Develop deep domain and industry knowledge to be a highly effective partner across internal and external stakeholders.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in formal Engineering Management of direct reports.
- Experience building and maintaining mobile applications, with strong expertise in mobile technologies and React Native development; familiarity with the underlying iOS and Android platforms required.
- Hands on experience designing and maintaining shared mobile libraries, frameworks, or platform infrastructure for use across multiple product teams.
- Proven ability to be a hands-on technical contributor: comfortable reviewing code, contributing to architectural decisions, and engaging directly with the codebase when needed.
- Experience managing, mentoring, and inspiring talented engineers, guiding them toward excellence in both professional growth and project outcomes.
- Familiarity with React native and/or Flutter, GraphQL and mobile networking best practices.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance considerations in mobile applications.
- Experience leading large platform migrations and driving cross-team adoption.
- A history of fostering accountability and ownership, motivating teams to take initiative and consistently deliver right-sized solutions.
- Ability to translate business strategy into engineering initiatives that drive delivery of meaningful outcomes.
- Strong track record leading projects, driving adoption of platform improvements, and making pragmatic tradeoffs while maintaining quality.
- Effective collaborator capable of working with other engineering teams, product managers, design, non-technical stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
- Passion for software engineering, developer experience, and creating what doesn’t yet exist.
- Appreciation for agility and pragmatism in software development; ability to thrive in a startup-like environment balancing autonomy with collaboration.
What being at Betterment means for you
We change lives
Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people's lives better.
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.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
We invest in you with:
- A competitive suite of benefits, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits, including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
- Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!)
- Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
- Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
- Dedicated professional development opportunities
- Lunch from our in-house chef at our NYC headquarters
What happens next
We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.
On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.
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Come join us!
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