Engineering Team Leader, Rocket Money
Cloud Infrastructure
$150-200k
+ Bonus
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
Open for applications
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people to live their best financial lives.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture and DevOps, with a focus on containerized developer platforms (such as ECS or Kubernetes)
- You have 2+ years of experience managing an engineering team
- You’re comfortable identifying, owning, and solving problems from end to end, across domains. You get excited when you need to learn something new to figure out a solution
- You lead by example. You take pride in building robust architecture, and provide tools and mentoring to help others do the same
- You’re pragmatic and empathetic. You seek to understand how performance issues impact users, and how process-changes impact engineers. You seek to align your team’s efforts towards business outcomes, and strive to make that alignment engaging, exciting, and achievable
- You can tailor your management style to suit your team members, identifying where some people might succeed with a more hands-off approach than others
- You're familiar with the principles of "Infrastructure as Code" (Terraform experience is a plus!), having used it to deploy resources to multiple environments
- You shy away from manual work/processes and try to automate things whenever possible. Doubly so if it enables others to be more productive in their daily work
- You are an engineer by trade, with a history of shipping production code and designing distributed systems to work at scale
- Experience with FinTech or consumer apps is a plus
What the job involves
- The Rocket Money Engineering team is comprised of full-stack problem solvers, infrastructure builders, accessibility advocates, quality champions, systems thinkers, musicians, woodworkers, writers, actors, and more
- We’re growing our team, and are looking for an Engineering Team Leader who can help us take our platform to the next level leading our Cloud Infrastructure team
- In this role, you will oversee the development and maintenance of our core infrastructure, ensuring that our systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient
- You will lead a team of engineers, fostering their growth and ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions
- Lead a highly-skilled cloud architecture team focused on maintaining our cloud platform, including our deployment flows, application environments, and security controls
- Act as a player-coach on the team, driving architectural reviews & working alongside engineers to solve technical challenges
- Create OKRs that reflect the business value derived from a deeply-technical group of high performing engineers. You are the acting product manager & engineering leader for this team, so balancing the needs of our engineering team & wider business is critical
- Be accountable for making, measuring, and delivering on team commitments, as well as pivoting when necessary in order to keep the team focused on the most impactful work
- Work with a high level of autonomy and know when to escalate concerns or collect feedback. You’ll own day-to-day decisions and have space to iterate on team norms and processes
- Foster strong working relationships with cross-functional counterparts (in areas such as Developer Experience, Platform, and Information Security) where problems are addressed directly, and decisions are made based on what’s best for our users, team members, and the business
- Support and grow a team of highly-skilled engineers through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and mentorship
- Proactively identify trends via monitoring and alerting systems, performing root-cause analysis to isolate and resolve issues
Our take
Managing finances has become increasingly difficult in the last couple of decades, despite access to online banking and other financial apps. The mass of subscriptions, standing orders and utility bills the average American is subject to ultimately makes it difficult to assess and manage their finances within one place.
Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) provides a mobile application that includes a variety of tools that aim to simplify financial management. Tools include an automatic subscription tracker which aims to increase transparency and simplicity for canceling unwanted subscriptions, in addition to monthly spending analytics and budgeting plans.
Whilst there seems to be an app for just about every form of financial management, Rocket Money has taken much-needed action by unifying everything into a single app. Whilst the company initially focused on financial management tools, it's now branched out to more direct financial tools such as utility bill comparison services, autopilot saving and paycheque advance loans.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$45m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$17m
SERIES C
Total funding: $84m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Plans
- Competitive Pay
- Matching 401k
- Unlimited PTO
- Lunch daily
- Snacks & Coffee
- Commuter benefits
Company values
- Focus on members - We are in this to delight our members. We maintain constant communication to understand their needs and wants
- Take ownership - We are passionate and proactive. We take ownership and prioritize the long term, not just our team or task
- Get stuff done - Time and resources are a constraint. We can only win if we are faster, more effective, and more agile than others
- Prioritize data - We are humble about our opinions and use data across our teams to make better decisions. We have deep respect for the security & privacy of members
- Enjoy the journey - We believe we can do our best work by supporting each other and seeking together to make our work engaging, fun, and enjoyable
- Support personal growth - We are committed to using our experience at work to support our own and each other’s personal growth journeys
Company HQ
Downtown Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD
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Leadership
Haroon Mokhtarzada
(CEO & Chairman)They worked as CEO of Webs for 10 years, while studying at Harvard Law School, before working as VP at Vistaprint. They left this role in 2016 having co-founded Truebill (which later became Rocket Money) in November 2015.
Yahya Mokhtarzada
(CRO)Having studied at the University of Maryland, they worked in Business Development for Webs.com, SGN, appssavvy, and Nanigans for a combined 9 years. In November 2015 they co-founded Truebill.
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