Sr Engineering Manager – API & Auth Platform

📋 Description

• Lead and grow a team of senior/staff engineers building the API, authentication, and internal
• Drive technical strategy for the GraphQL API frameworks powering our customer-facing and internal
• Ensure Betterment's authentication and authorization systems remain current with industry best
• Sequence your team roadmap to balance reliability, security, developer experience, and platform
• Work alongside the product teams who build on your platform every day. Develop broad Betterment
• Hold the line on the standards that keep shared systems healthy. Make them visible and easy to

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing senior and staff ICs; ability to coach engineers through technically complex
• Proven track record leading a team that owns a shared platform used by engineering, operations, and
• Experience managing shared API platforms — ideally GraphQL. An appreciation for the frameworks
• Hands-on experience with modern authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, passkeys)
• Experience partnering with IT, security, and business leaders on governance, access, and permission
• Principled approach to balancing the need to move quickly today with the need to move quickly

🎁 Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability
• Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants.
• Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth
• Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
• Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.