[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @NerdWallet

Role Description

NerdWallet is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a customer-facing product team building across our React Native mobile app and our Next.js web experiences. This role reports to the Senior Director, Engineering.

• Own the outcomes of a customer-facing team of senior engineers building across our React Native mobile app and our Next.js web experiences.
• Shape the roadmap alongside Product and Design and have your own point of view on what is worth building, what the data can actually support, and what AI can build and extend.
• Lead the team to build systems that compound instead of a growing list of one-off features.
• Lead an AI-native team and own how your team plans, defines, builds, reviews, and tests as AI reshapes each of those steps.
• Make high-quality calls on when to trade polish for speed to learn and get real customer feedback into the team's hands fast.
• Peer teams, partners, and leadership should know your team's strategy, roadmap, rationale, and progress.
• When the way we work needs to change, make the case, carry it with conviction, and stay with it until the new way is how the team actually operates.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, including hands-on individual contributor experience.
• 2+ years managing engineering teams. This is not a first-time management role.
• Experience managing software engineers with accountability for a team's outcomes rather than its delivery dates alone.
• Experience leading an AI-native product engineering team.
• Strong product and business instincts.
• A track record of delivering hard feedback and resetting expectations.
• Technical credibility on a modern web or mobile product stack.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity.
• Experience with data, experimentation, and measurement as the basis for product decisions.
• Experience hiring engineers and holding a bar while doing it.

Requirements

• You are a leader and a coach, accountable for your team's outcomes, its people, and its craft.
• You built software before you led people building it, and you have not left that behind.
• You are not the team's technical lead; you draw the technical vision out of your most senior engineers.
• You think in systems rather than features.
• You hold a high performance bar for the people you lead.
• You collaborate laterally and operate as a peer to the other Engineering Managers in the organization.

Benefits

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents.
• Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown.
• New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care.
• Mental health support.
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests.
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution.
• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend).
• Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends).
• Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities.
• Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments.
• Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction.
• Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match.
• 401K with 4% company match.
• Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools.
• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar.
• Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums.