About the role

The Product Engineering teams at Betterment build the applications our customers use when they are logged in to their Betterment accounts. We are looking for Senior Full Stack Engineers to join us in furthering our mission to make people’s lives better by providing delightful experiences that have been Betterment’s hallmark since inception.

Our software guides customers through the most important life events in their financial journey. Whether it’s saving to buy a house or planning for retirement, hundreds of thousands of people rely on us to invest and save their money. If you are passionate about financial wellness and are driven to solve complex problems that make saving and investing simple, this role is for you.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively with our Mobile, Product, and Design functions to guide and delight our customers on their financial journey. 

This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly. Below, we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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: $170,000 - $195,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Lead medium-to-large scale initiatives, partnering with teammates and adhering to software development best practices in order to ship high quality software continuously and iteratively.
• Collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build delightful experiences that help our customers save and invest. 
• Balance innovation with the need to maintain application performance and security.
• Maintain a high bar of excellence in your work quality, setting an example for and mentoring less experienced Engineers to do the same.
• Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through clean code, rigorous testing and pragmatic programming
• Collaborate with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented Engineers and figure out how to make Betterment’s software better.
• Contribute to an environment of open communication, where engineers feel empowered to share ideas and take initiative to solve problems that contribute to achieving company objectives.

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience in object-oriented programming; Ruby on Rails is preferred. Experience with Java, Python, C#, or Node.js is welcomed.
• Proficiency in building frontend applications using React.js or a similar framework
• Experience building APIs using GraphQL.
• Proficiency with relational databases, including designing schemas and writing detailed SQL queries.
• A strong command of fundamental algorithms and data structures.
• Proven ability to lead and manage projects that span one or more teams, considering tradeoffs to ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining high standards of quality, performance and security.
• Passion for building delightful front end interfaces and components.
• Passion for ongoing learning and knowledge-sharing.
• Adept at approaching complex engineering challenges with innovative and unconventional solutions.

About the role

The AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build useful AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly. As Sr Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.

You will work directly with product and engineering leadership to drive the technical direction of our AI product development strategy. You will collaborate closely with product and compliance partners to ensure Betterment's AI capabilities are developed with the rigor that our customers and regulators expect.

By joining us in the early days of our AI product efforts, you will have significant influence over how the organization delivers exciting features into the Betterment product across all lines of business.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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 - $240,000

This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

A day in the life

• Lead and grow a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities where AI organically enhances existing product value.
• Sequence your team roadmap to deliver product features that expand our organization’s AI technical capabilities.
• Partner with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production. Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.
• Partner with legal and compliance leaders to scale processes that enable teams to build AI functionality quickly and responsibly within a regulated financial services environment.
• Cultivate an environment of open communication and creative problem-solving where engineers feel empowered to experiment, learn from failure, and propose ideas that align technical investment with product objectives.
• Translate Betterment’s strong culture of accountability into our AI processes – providing evaluation rigor, model observability, and thoughtful human oversight.

What we’re looking for

• A senior engineering leader capable of hands-on work in our codebase. The ideal candidate will act as player-coach, working alongside their senior and staff IC direct reports to build Betterment’s AI systems.
• Proven track record leading engineering teams working on fullstack AI projects involving LLMs.
• Experience leading projects that affect multiple teams’ software systems, tooling, and development workflows.
• Comfort operating at the frontier. The ability to stay current with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
• Clear judgment about when to use AI and when not to, maintaining a grounded, pragmatic perspective on what we should ship to production today.
• Personal technical expertise with AI tooling and ecosystem and experience making sound build vs buy decisions.
• Ability to build trust, alignment, and process across disciplines and teams.
• Principled approach to balancing the need to move quickly today with the need to move quickly tomorrow, with an appreciation of how to meet high standards for customer quality and regulatory requirements.

About the role

The AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build useful AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly. As Sr Staff Engineer, you will work with a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.

You will help shape and lead the technical direction of our AI product development strategy, working closely with engineering leadership. You will collaborate with product and compliance partners to ensure Betterment's AI capabilities are developed with the rigor that our customers and regulators expect.

By joining us in the early days of our AI product efforts, you will have significant influence over how the organization delivers exciting features into the Betterment product across all lines of business.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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: $230,000 - $270,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Work with a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.
• Define and drive Betterment's AI platform strategy – the shared infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, internal libraries, and guardrails that allow product teams to build AI features with confidence and speed.
• Lead high-leverage projects that expand our organization’s AI technical capabilities, where AI organically enhances existing product value.
• Partner with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production. Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.
• Partner with legal and compliance leaders to scale processes that enable teams to build AI functionality quickly and responsibly within a regulated financial services environment.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers, sharing your experience to expand their impact and accelerate their growth.

What we’re looking for

• A strong technical lead capable of establishing the strategic vision for Betterment’s AI systems while also working hands-on alongside senior and staff IC colleagues to build it into reality.
• Deep expertise in LLM systems, including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation systems. 
• Experience operating AI features in production, ensuring quality and auditability via online and offline validation, automated monitoring, and human-in--the-loop oversight.
• Comfort operating at the frontier. The ability and drive to stay current with emerging tools, techniques, and best practices within the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
• Clear judgment about when to use AI and when not to, maintaining a grounded, pragmatic perspective on what we should ship to production today.
• Proven track record leading successful projects that affect and development workflows used by multiple teams.
• Fullstack development experience including React, GraphQL, and one or more server-side languages (Ruby, Java, TypeScript, C#, Python, etc.)
• Experience making sound build vs buy decisions.
• Ability to build trust and processes that transcend discipline and team boundaries.
• Principled approach to balancing the need to move quickly today with the need to move quickly tomorrow, with an appreciation of how to meet high standards for customer quality and regulatory requirements.

About the role

The AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build useful AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly. As Sr Software Engineer, you will work with a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.

You will help build core pieces of our AI product development strategy, working closely with engineering leadership. You will collaborate with product and compliance partners to ensure Betterment's AI capabilities are developed with the rigor that our customers and regulators expect.

By joining us in the early days of our AI product efforts, you will have significant influence over how the organization delivers exciting features into the Betterment product across all lines of business.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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: $170,000 - $205,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Work with a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.
• Help deliver Betterment's AI platform strategy – the shared infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, internal libraries, and guardrails that allow product teams to build AI features with confidence and speed.
• Contribute to high-leverage projects that expand our organization’s AI technical capabilities, where AI organically enhances existing product value.
• Embed with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production. Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.
• Collaborate with legal and compliance leaders to scale processes that enable teams to build AI functionality quickly and responsibly within a regulated financial services environment.
• Mentor junior engineers, sharing your experience to expand their impact and accelerate their growth.

What we’re looking for

• A contributor capable of establishing the strategic vision for Betterment’s AI systems while also working hands-on alongside senior and staff IC colleagues to build it into reality.
• Experience with LLM systems, including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation systems. 
• Experience operating AI features in production, ensuring quality and auditability via online and offline validation, automated monitoring, and human-in--the-loop oversight.
• Comfort operating at the frontier. The ability and drive to stay current with emerging tools, techniques, and best practices within the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
• Clear judgment about when to use AI and when not to, maintaining a grounded, pragmatic perspective on what we should ship to production today.
• Fullstack development experience including React, GraphQL, and one or more server-side languages (Ruby, Java, TypeScript, C#, Python, etc.)
• Experience collaborating across discipline and team boundaries.
• An open-minded approach when navigating the tension between moving fast, customer quality, and regulatory requirements.

About the Role

The Senior IT Systems Engineer is a hands-on, senior individual contributor responsible for designing, scaling, and operating Betterment’s core IT systems and infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of identity, SaaS platforms, endpoint management, and automation, ensuring employees have secure, reliable, and seamless access to the tools they need to do their best work.

As a force multiplier within Corporate Technology, this role establishes standards, builds scalable systems, and reduces manual toil through automation and thoughtful system design. The Senior IT Systems Engineer partners closely with Security, People Operations, Finance, and Engineering to ensure IT systems are secure, auditable, and built to scale with the business.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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: $120,000 - $145,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

What You’ll Do

IT Systems & Infrastructure Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain identity and access management architecture across the enterprise.
• Own end-to-end employee lifecycle automation, integrating HRIS, identity, and downstream SaaS systems.
• Administer and optimize core SaaS platforms including Google Workspace, Okta, Slack, Zoom, Lumos, Jamf and other business-critical tools.
• Experience administering business system/enterprise apps such as HRIS (ADP, etc.), Finance (Netsuite, Salesforce, ZipHq), Access review/ Spend control  (Lumos)
• Establish and maintain standards for system configuration, access models, and operational ownership.
  
  

Automation & Platform Enablement

• Automate repetitive IT workflows using scripting and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Build scalable, self-service processes that reduce support burden and improve employee experience.
• Standardize and codify IT infrastructure and workflows wherever possible to ensure consistency and reliability.
• Experience withlow-code automation platforms: Boomi, Workato, Okta Workflows, Zapier

Device & Endpoint Management

• Manage and scale macOS endpoint fleets, including configuration, patching, security controls, and policy enforcement.
• Own MDM tooling, OS upgrade strategies, and endpoint security posture in partnership with Security.
• Support Windows endpoints where required, particularly for Finance and other specialized functions.

Security & Compliance Partnership

• Implement and enforce IT security best practices across systems and endpoints.
• Partner with Security Engineering and Risk to strengthen MFA, SSO, RBAC, and device trust controls.
• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and remediate IT-related security gaps and operational risks.
• Support audit and compliance efforts by ensuring systems are well-documented, controlled, and auditable.
• Security-first/minded approach. 
  
  

Employee Experience & Support

• Act as a senior escalation point for IT Support, ensuring predictable availability and high-quality service.
• Document IT standards, policies, and troubleshooting guides to promote clarity and consistency.
• Improve onboarding, offboarding, and day-to-day employee experiences through reliable systems and automation.
  
  

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Information Systems, Technology, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in IT systems engineering, SaaS administration, or enterprise technology operations.
• Deep expertise in macOS administration and endpoint management at scale.
• Strong experience with Okta and modern identity standards including SAML, OIDC, SCIM, and RBAC.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using tools such as Python, Bash, or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to design, document, and operate scalable IT Systems in a cloud-first environment.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.
• Customer-service mindset with a reliable, detail-oriented, and collaborative approach.

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Familiarity with IT security controls in regulated environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX).
• Experience supporting high-growth organizations through scale or operational maturity transitions.
• Strong documentation and process-design discipline.
  
  

Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely to apply for roles unless they meet every listed qualification. At Betterment, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity with us.

About the Role:

On User Trust, you’ll build the systems and experiences that help users, partners, and regulators trust Betterment’s platform. You’ll work on critical capabilities spanning, user privacy and compliance, account access, KYC, risk scoring, login and account recovery, and fraud prevention. 

This role sits at the intersection of security, legal & compliance, risk, and product engineering to deliver scalable, reliable solutions that protect customers, reduce fraud, and support Betterment’s regulatory obligations.

As a staff engineer, you’ll play an instrumental role in designing and implementing complex systems within the team’s domain, guiding your team’s full stack development practices and collaborating with other senior engineering leaders to advance Betterment’s technology and create high performance, reliability and exceptional developer experience.

If you're passionate about delightful customer experiences, building scalable, high-performance web applications and are eager to work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment, we'd love to have you on our team.

New York City: $200,000 - $238,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience designing, building, and operating systems for fraud detection, prevention, or risk mitigation in high-trust environments.
• Familiarity with building customer-facing and internal tools that require strong reliability, auditability, and thoughtful handling of risk.
• Exposure to domains involving identity, access, privacy, compliance, financial workflows, or other trust-critical user experiences.
• Track record of balancing user experience, business goals, and control frameworks when building scalable fullstack systems.
• Have proven and recent experience scoping, building, and leading technical projects (and the teams building them) from discovery through release
• Have experience in at least one server-side language - Ruby, Java, C#, C++, Python. (we use Ruby on Rails)
• Have experience building interactive web applications using modern Javascript frameworks (we use React)
• Have a strong understanding of appropriate technical design, architecture, and other complexity in building web applications
• Have experience gathering inputs, building consensus, and making technical decisions in an inclusive manner
• Have experience communicating effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues across different roles, teams, and lines of business
• Have a commitment to upskilling teammates through feedback, pairing, and mentorship
• Have a passion for software engineering, and for creating what doesn’t exist
• Know how to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
• Realize that automated tests are a worthwhile investment
• Appreciate agility and pragmatism in software development
• Thrive in a startup environment

About the Role:

The IT team works closely with all Betterment employees and across all of the technologies they rely on every day. We are responsible for access management, SaaSops, traditional software, hardware, and the networking infrastructure at our offices. We are committed to automating as much as possible to make it easier for our staff to support themselves, while still providing them white-glove service. We are always looking at the latest tech to see how we can incorporate it into the business and working with Procurement to roll it out to staff. We work closely with Security to make sure our staff is kept safe through our Mac-based management tool. We know the right tools and automation are a force multiplier for the continued success of a fast growing business.

As an IT Support Technician, you will provide second-line support and act as an escalation point for our IT Support Associates. You’ll troubleshoot complex requests, manage hardware deployments, administer SaaS platforms, and lead onboarding sessions. This role requires strong documentation skills and the ability to work independently on recurring IT operations.

This role is based out of our NYC office.  Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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: $82,500 - 96,500

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits, FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy.  For this role, we require in office attendance.

A Day in the Life: 

• Own support requests in Zendesk with clear and thorough documentation
• Act as an escalation point for IT Support Associates (L1)
• Troubleshoot access issues, SaaS applications, email group management, and hardware diagnostics
• Procure, configure, and ship laptops and accessories to staff
• Identify and escalate trending issues to the appropriate teams
• Assist with inventory tracking and asset tagging for IT-owned hardware and software licenses (e.g., laptops, cameras, TVs, mics, mobile devices)
• Lead new hire onboarding sessions and provide 1:1 technical support
• Support and troubleshoot A/V systems in conference rooms
• Coordinate user provisioning and deprovisioning during onboarding and offboarding
• Provide internal training and documentation to improve team knowledge
• Participate in the on-call rotation to support business continuity
• Pursue professional development by attending conferences, training, or certifications

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum 2 years of experience supporting a macOS environment, with a strong emphasis on white-glove support
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead user onboarding sessions
• Experience managing SaaS platforms, including Okta, Google Workspace, and Office 365
• Troubleshooting skills for hardware, macOS, iOS, and Android devices
• Ability to educate users on resolving basic IT issues independently
• Experience with A/V systems, Zoom Rooms, and conference displays
• Familiarity with the administration of management and productivity platforms, including:
  • Ticketing systems (e.g., Zendesk)
  • Okta, Office 365, Slack, Google Workspace
  • Confluence, GitHub, Creative Cloud
• Comfortable with basic networking and remote troubleshooting
• Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects

Nice to Haves:

• CompTIA A+, BetterCloud, or Okta Certified Professional certification
• Experience with JAMF, Meraki, or similar management platforms
• Experience working with e-waste vendors
• Experience with asset management and license tracking systems

About the Role

Betterment's mission is to make people's lives better through smarter financial tools, and protecting that trust is where security comes in. As Engineering Manager of Detection Engineering, you'll lead the team responsible for building and operating Betterment's security detection capabilities. You'll own the strategy and execution for how we detect threats across our cloud infrastructure, SaaS ecosystem, and product, giving your team the direction and support they need to do their best work.

You'll partner closely with Security Engineering, IT, Risk, and Engineering leadership to mature our detection program, balancing the delivery of new capabilities with the operational rigor our customers and business depend on. You'll be a hands-on leader who can go deep on the work while also driving the roadmap, growing your team, and translating security priorities into engineering outcomes.

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: $175,000 - $215,000

This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. 

A Day in the Life:

• Detection Program Strategy: Help own, drive, and execute the Detection Engineering roadmap, balancing new capability development with the operational health of existing systems, including driving threat-informed, TTP-aligned detection development across the team.
• Detection Quality: Work with engineers and the business to maintain and refine the measurement framework for detection health, coverage, precision, false positive rates, and safe rollout practices, holding the team to a continuously improving bar.
• Threat Modeling: Set expectations for how the team engages with engineering and infrastructure partners on new systems, ensuring D&R requirements (telemetry, threat models, response playbooks) are defined before systems ship.
• Incident Response Leadership: Lead or oversee the team's response to security incidents, ensuring clear ownership, fast time-to-contain, and strong post-incident review practices.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of detection engineers, investing in their craft and careers.
• External SOC Partnership: Partner with our external SOC to define scope, improve triage quality, and identify opportunities to hand off well-defined alert handling.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with IT, Risk, Compliance, and the broader Security Engineering team to understand security priorities and translate them into engineering work. Represent Detection Engineering across the organization, making security work legible to non-security teams and building strong stakeholder relationships.
• Engineering Quality: Hold a high bar for engineering quality, automated testing, proper observability, documented runbooks, and maintainable code.
• Compliance: Lead the team through audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.), ensuring detection infrastructure supports compliance evidence and control requirements.

What We're Looking For:

We are seeking a team member with 7+ years in security engineering or operations, with 2+ years managing security or detection engineering teams including senior engineers.

• Player-Coach: A track record as a true player-coach, comfortable going deep on technical problems while also leading people and programs.
• Detection Expertise: Strong background in SIEM platforms (Splunk preferred), detection-as-code practices, and threat-informed detection development including familiarity with adversary TTPs and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
• Incident Response: Experience leading or overseeing incident response, including establishing IR playbooks and driving post-incident review practices.
• External SOC: Experience working with or managing an external SOC, including defining escalation paths and performance expectations.
• Cloud & Tooling: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS), endpoint security (CrowdStrike or similar), and identity platforms (Okta or similar).
• Engineering Quality: Passion for engineering quality, you hold the team to the same standards as any product engineering team.
• Compliance: Experience collaborating with Compliance, Risk, and Audit teams on security controls and evidence collection.
• Communication: Clear, direct communicator who can translate security context for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Betterment SRE team’s Developer Experience squad, you’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams across the company as your squad guides an engineer’s journey from commit to production, empowering developers with a collection of development tools, streamlined workflows, and fast and efficient feedback loops.

You’ll develop and own a mission-aligned roadmap and manage its execution with your team. You’ll also partner with engineers on your team and beyond to identify and advocate for work that will allow our engineers to continue executing at a high level. You’ll play a crucial role in balancing delivery of new capabilities alongside system stability and scale, all while helping mentor and grow a team of amazing engineers.

At Betterment, our Site Reliability Engineering squads empower and enable the entire engineering organization through a depth of experience in driving the engineering standards of the organization. They influence and shape a technical future that’s qualitatively better than our status quo. Our SRE squads and the broader Platform org work closely with product teams to deliver infrastructure and tooling that enables us to deliver value to Betterment's customers and clients. Members of this team have a love for solving interesting technical challenges and improving the lives of our developers in ways that move our engineering organization and the business forward. You’ll be a part of a team that’s tackling difficult questions of scale, architecture, and interaction.

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 - $240,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.

A Day in the Life:

• Oversee the development of semantically rich abstractions for every aspect of the development process, making it easier for our developers to commit, test, build, deploy, and observe code.
• Build and maintain frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that enable our engineering teams to run faster and build better.
• Guide teams in effectively leveraging AI-powered development tools and help integrate AI capabilities into developer workflows, where they add value.
• Lead and mentor engineers on Betterment's senior-leaning DevEx squad.
• Establish strong lines of communication with stakeholders to understand and deeply support the needs of the engineering teams building products across all business lines and divisions of Betterment.
• Inspire and maintain a strong, equitable engineering culture founded on transparency, inclusivity, mentorship, and collaboration.
• Continuously innovate and seek out ways to meet the near- and long-term strategic needs of our complex org.
  
  

What We’re Looking For:

• Expertise in software development toolchains and environments, CI/CD pipelines, SLIs/SLOs, and Observability.
• Experience with hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring a team of talented engineers, including senior engineers. Demonstrated success as a true player-coach is a must. 
• Experience building important, high production-value software where quality and correctness matters while preserving a nimble, fluid, highly productive culture and workflow.
• Experience leading execution of large team projects and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a curiosity for exploring how AI can enhance developer productivity and code quality.
• A real passion for software engineering and improving the developer experience.
• Experience collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, and non-technical stakeholders.

About the role

As an Engineering Manager in Broker Dealer, you'll help balance on-time delivery of new features alongside system stability and scale, all while helping mentor and grow a team of talented engineers. Broker Dealer is the core of the Betterment platform. On a busy day, we securely move millions of dollars through the Betterment system and ensure each transaction flows through a complex series of risk checks for strict regulatory compliance. Every ounce of efficiency and intelligence we pour into this system translates into more value for our customers. We’re looking for an Engineering leader to contribute to answering our most difficult backend scaling, software design, and optimization questions. This role will be overseeing a team of individual contributors, and will work closely with other engineering managers in Broker Dealer. While we don’t expect you to code on a daily basis, we do expect you to quickly familiarize yourself with the tech stack, codebase and specific business domains so that you can better support the team’s mission and deliver meaningful business impact. 

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below, we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and interview performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees. 

• New York City: $210,000 - $245,000 

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, and a 401(k) offering with employer match as well as flexible PTO policy. This job is eligible for variable compensation in the form of a discretionary company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly

A day in the life

• Manage a team of 6-8 backend engineers who build innovative trading technology that powers our investing products.
• Foster career development and align roadmap opportunities with each engineer’s growth interests, keeping them technically engaged.
• Cultivate a team culture that values agility, accountability, constructive feedback, and celebrates successes.
• Be a hands-on technical mentor by regularly diving into the codebase, participating in code reviews, partnering with stakeholders to shape solutions, and driving effective technical decision-making.
• Champion maintainability and reliability by advocating for the long-term stability of the technology your team builds.
• Balance the need for speed of delivery with the importance of 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 and ensure the appropriately engineered solutions.
• Develop deep domain and industry knowledge to be a highly effective partner across internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal and Compliance teams to ensure we consistently deliver the right sized solutions to the right problems.

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years of experience in formal Engineering Management of direct reports.
• 8+ years of experience in building and maintaining backend distributed systems using Java or a similar strongly typed programming language.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and inspiring talented engineers, guiding them toward excellence in both professional growth and project outcomes.
• A proven track record to rapidly close knowledge gaps, enhancing productivity and establishing trust within the organization.
• A history of fostering accountability and ownership, motivating teams to take initiative and consistently deliver right sized solutions. 
• Experience cultivating high-performing teams that focus on speed of execution and the rigor to maintain quality.
• Ability to adjust leadership style to meet the evolving needs of the team and the business.
• Effective collaborator capable of working with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, non-technical stakeholders and third party vendors to build and ship high quality software.
• Ability to translate business strategy into Engineering initiatives that drive delivery of meaningful outcomes.

About the role

At Betterment, our software helps customers navigate the most important milestones in their financial lives. From saving for a first home to planning for retirement, hundreds of thousands of people trust us to invest and save on their behalf. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a critical role in shaping these experiences by leading a team dedicated to making saving and investing simple, accessible, and impactful.

We take pride in delivering high-quality, intuitive user experiences, and we are seeking a technical leader who can inspire, guide, and grow our engineering team. In this role, you will balance strategic vision with hands-on leadership while ensuring excellence in both quality and execution, all in service of helping our customers achieve financial wellness.

As an Engineering Manager on this team, you’ll help lead us through a period of growth and maturation. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional leadership to execute on a mission-aligned roadmap with your team. You’ll also get the opportunity to lead and contribute to projects while driving operational excellence in everything we do. Along the way, you’ll navigate the intricacies of our evolving domain and partner with other engineering leaders and stakeholders of diverse backgrounds. Just as importantly, you’ll mentor and grow a team of talented engineers, empowering them to deliver their best work.

This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly. The base salary range offered for this position is reflected below. 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: $170,000 - $230,000

This range reflects the salary range across multiple levels. The actual salary offered will depend on the candidate's qualifications and demonstration of experience.

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Lead and manage a team of engineers who work in a full-stack ecosystem.
• Serve as an effective player-coach, using direct project leadership and contributions to gain first-hand expertise into the world of financial wellness.
• Build things people love. Our goal is to delight our customers whenever possible. Sleek design, simple user experience, and access to sophisticated advice.
• Collaborate with product managers, staff engineers and subject matter experts to make sure the team is always building the right stuff and doing so thoughtfully.
• Inspire and maintain a strong, equitable engineering culture founded on transparency, inclusivity, mentorship, and collaboration.
• Drive roadmaps, mitigate risks, and ensure the team is continuing to deliver towards the business goals

What we’re looking for

• Experience leading and contributing to full-stack web engineering projects. Our primary web application is built in Ruby on Rails, but we build our newest web interfaces using a combination of React and GraphQL. Other server-side languages, like Java or Python could be a good foundation
• Experience with establishing and upholding team culture through healthy team norms, processes, and inclusive practices.
• Experience with hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring an established team of talented engineers.
• Experience leading execution of large team projects and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers.
• Experience building important, high production-value software where quality and correctness matters while preserving a nimble, fluid, highly productive culture and workflow.
• A passion for developing your reports and helping craft opportunities for them to grow into continually more impactful team members.
• A love of software engineering and a willingness to get into the code to better understand the  sophisticated business domains we work in.
• Experience collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with stakeholders in your area to produce roadmaps for your team.
• Experience setting and holding your team accountable to ambitious goals.

About the role

The Security Engineering team is a trusted partner throughout the organization who work hard to make Betterment the most secure place for our customers’ money. We do this by building tools for our development teams, improving the security and integrity of our systems, and adding monitoring and visibility into our services. This helps us move faster and smarter, all while done within a highly regulated and secure environment.

We write, review, and advise in Ruby, Javascript, Java, and Python just to name a few of our popular languages. We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform, including AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Terraform, Datadog, CircleCI, and Splunk. As an engineer on the Security Engineering team, you'll help deliver new products, tools, and systems in a secure manner that make engineering more impactful and help keep our customers safe and happy! 

This role is remote eligible. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position in locations with city or state requirements. For those located elsewhere, the actual compensation offered will be based on candidate experience and geographic location.  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: $205,000 - $215,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

A day in the life

• Lead and collaborate on product security initiatives strengthening our engineering practices
• Write and review customer facing code to resolve security concerns alongside product development engineers
• Conduct threat modeling exercises, architecture reviews, and offensive security engagements with product teams
• Innovate with modern cloud technologies to secure systems such as CI/CD, sensitive data storage, mobile design, front end web services, and more
• Provide mentorship and education for security and software engineering excellence

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience building software
• Deep experience and understanding of securing modern web apps (OWASP top 10, CWEs, and language specific application security issues)
• Experience working in a product setting where the needs of the business and users must be weighed against security requirements
• Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities and fixing them
• Experience building high-availability distributed systems and services with any Object Oriented Programming language
• Experience with the Linux command line interface
• Experience with securing AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, VPCs)
• Experience with any of these technologies is a plus: GraphQL, React, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres

About the Role:

The Advisor Experience team aims to build the best full-service investment management platform in the industry. The team operates as part of Betterment Advisor Solutions, the all-in-one custodial platform for independent RIAs, and this team focuses on empowering financial advisors with the tools to manage their clients on Betterment’s platform. Our team holds a high amount of pride in building high-quality user experiences to simplify complex needs. We’re looking for a technical leader to drive this team forward while upholding high standards in quality and execution for Core Registered Investment Advisors managing their clients on Betterment’s platform. We also support our advisor support team and relationship managers.

As a staff engineer, you’ll play an instrumental role in designing and implementing complex systems within the team’s domain, guiding your team’s full stack development practices and collaborating with other senior engineering leaders to advance Betterment’s technology and create high performance, reliability and exceptional developer experience.

If you're passionate about delightful customer experiences, building scalable, high-performance web applications and are eager to work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment, we'd love to have you on our team.

• New York City: $200,000 - $238,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

A Day in the Life: 

• Build things people love. Our goal is to delight our customers whenever possible. Sleek design, simple user experience, and access to sophisticated advice.
• Teach and Learn. As a Staff Engineer, we expect you to share your knowledge with new, junior, and senior engineers. Help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents.
• Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat.
• Collaborate, with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.
• Gain trust through transparency. We believe in taking the guesswork out of investing. That means a consistent experience for our customers — you’ll build the tools to make it possible. We already have the best UX in the business. Let’s make it even better.
• Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through clean code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering.
• Work with people who care. Half of our team is made up of engineers, but we believe everyone at Betterment is an engineer with their own tools. We’re a group of talented professionals who pride ourselves on what we do. We’re smart, innovative, energetic, and lots of fun.

What We’re Looking For:

• Have proven and recent experience scoping, building, and leading technical projects (and the teams building them) from discovery through release
• Have experience in at least one server-side language - Ruby, Java, C#, C++, Python. (we use Ruby on Rails)
• Have experience building interactive web applications using modern Javascript frameworks (we use React)
• Have a strong understanding of appropriate technical design, architecture, and other complexity in building web applications
• Have experience gathering inputs, building consensus, and making technical decisions in an inclusive manner
• Have experience communicating effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues across different roles, teams, and lines of business
• Have a commitment to upskilling teammates through feedback, pairing, and mentorship
• Have a passion for software engineering, and for creating what doesn’t exist
• Know how to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
• Realize that automated tests are a worthwhile investment
• Appreciate agility and pragmatism in software development
• Thrive in a startup environment

About the role

Broker Dealer is the core of the Betterment platform. On a busy day, we securely move millions of dollars through the Betterment system and ensure each transaction flows through a complex series of risk checks for strict regulatory compliance. Every ounce of efficiency and intelligence we pour into this system translates into more value for our customers. We’re looking for engineers to help us answer some of our most difficult backend scaling, software design, and optimization questions. As a Staff Engineer in our Broker Dealer organization, you'll help define our technical vision, improve system stability, drive on-time delivery, mentor our team of amazing engineers, and help scale our systems in the next chapter of our growth.

This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer 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

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Drive the technical vision and long-term strategy of the team
• Build innovative trading and money-movement technology that empowers people to make the most of their money, so they can live better
• Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat
• Collaborate with purpose. Spread knowledge across the organization, leveling up engineering practices and mentoring other engineers
• Gain trust through transparency. We believe in taking the guesswork out of investing. That means a consistent experience for our customers — you’ll build the tools to make it possible
• Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through clean code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering
• Work with people who care. Half of our team is made up of engineers but we believe everyone at Betterment is an engineer with their own tools. We’re a group of talented professionals who pride ourselves on what we do. We’re smart, innovative, energetic, and lots of fun

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years professional experience in at least one object-oriented language, strong plus for Java experience
• 7+ years professional experience with SQL and relational databases, including designing schemas and writing detailed SQL queries
• A strong command of fundamental algorithms and data structures
• Experience scaling and optimizing in large-scale distributed systems
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components
• Proven ability to lead and manage projects that span one or more teams, considering tradeoffs to ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining high standards of quality, performance and security
• An understanding of how to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
• Knowing that investments in developing solid tests pays for itself several times over
• Appreciation for agility and pragmatism in software development

About the role

As a Staff Mobile Engineer on the Mobile Platform team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the shared mobile infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power Betterment’s applications. You’ll play a key role in shaping the developer experience for mobile engineers across the company, ensuring that teams can deliver features quickly, safely, and sustainably.

Platform engineering at Betterment enables engineers across the organization to ship great code with confidence. Our team works closely with product engineers to deliver cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure, and frameworks that unlock faster delivery while maintaining quality. We tackle the most interesting technical challenges of scale, architecture, and developer experience to create an app platform that delights both our customers and our engineers.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below, we’ve reflected the base salary range we would offer 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 – $228,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits, FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in-office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Build and maintain the shared React Native frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling that mobile product teams use to deliver customer-facing features
• Partner with engineers across engineering to improve reliability, performance, and security of our mobile apps
• Lead medium-to-large scale platform initiatives, balancing tradeoffs to ship high-quality solutions continuously and iteratively
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to ensure platform capabilities align with business and customer needs
• Teach and Learn. As a Staff Engineer, we expect you to share your knowledge with new, junior, and senior engineers. Help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents.
• Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat.
• Collaborate, with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.
• Identify and address strategic technical challenges that have long-term impact across Betterment’s mobile engineering organization
• Contribute to an engineering culture that values clean code, rigorous testing, pragmatic programming, and continuous improvement

What we’re looking for

• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and React Native development and familiarity with the underlying iOS and Android platforms.  Experience with Flutter is nice to have!
• Experience designing and maintaining shared libraries, frameworks, or infrastructure for mobile applications
• Familiarity with GraphQL and mobile networking best practices
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance considerations in mobile apps
• Experience leading large platform migrations and driving adoption
• Ensure high standards for code quality, test coverage, accessibility, and performance
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across devices and OS versions
• Have a commitment to upskilling teammates through feedback, pairing, and mentorship
• Strong track record leading  projects, driving  adoption of platform improvements, and making pragmatic tradeoffs while maintaining quality
• Collaborative mindset and excitement to partner with teammates across multiple teams within engineering, design, and product
• Passion for software engineering, developer experience, and creating what doesn’t yet exist
• Appreciation of agility and pragmatism in software development
• The ability to thrive in a startup-like environment, balancing autonomy with collaboration