What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Director, Systems position at Rocket Money?
ABOUT ROCKET MONEY 🔮
Rocket Money’s mission is to empower people to live their best financial lives. Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey.
ABOUT THE TEAM 🤝
Rocket Money’s Systems Group is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that powers Rocket Money, and builds the tools that enable our Product Engineering teams to build the best-in-class financial companion.
You will be responsible for:
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Frontend Design Systems
- Developer Experience & Enablement
- IT & Information Security
- Mobile Release Engineering
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:
- Be a leader of leaders, supporting and growing the Systems Group’s Engineering Leaders, empowering them to support and grow their own teams.
- Take responsibility for the quality, reliability, and performance of a product that is used by millions of people. You’ll be a critical escalation path for production incidents in addition to a guiding voice as the team works to resolve them.
- Understand big-picture business objectives, and partner with other leaders throughout the company to ensure that they have the infrastructure and tools necessary to successfully execute on their own roadmaps.
- Distill those requirements into the Systems Group’s own roadmap, and be accountable for its execution. You’ll collaborate with our team of Program Managers to implement cross-cutting organization-wide projects.
- Identify, attract, empower, and retain top engineering talent to build an organization that can execute against an ambitious roadmap.
- Hold a high bar for your teams, ensuring that Engineers are supported, heard, and shipping great software. You’ll coach other leaders to provide this same level of support to their teams.
ABOUT YOU 🦄
- You have experience leading a team of engineers.
- You have experience building high-quality consumer-facing applications and systems that operate at scale, supporting millions of users.
- You’re a generalist who can participate in conversations across the stack, from React application logic through what’s happening on the backend and into the underlying infrastructure on which the code is deployed.
- You’re eager to dig into code, systems, and architecture to understand how the system works and where it can be improved. You’re an engineer who leads, not just a leader of engineers; opportunities to look at the code and talk through it with someone on the team are cherished.
- You build observable systems and enjoy digging into the details to solve performance and user experience issues.
- You understand the value of pursuing tooling and automation that allows Engineering teams to remain small, nimble, and high-performing.
- You see enablement as a strategic lever, knowing that a 10% improvement across every team member creates exponential value for the business
- You're both a student and a teacher, continually seeking to grow as an engineer and help those around you grow as well. You meet your engineering peers where they are, showing – not telling – them a better way.
- You thrive in a growing organization, and are not afraid of a challenging problem. In fact, you confront problems head on and take the lead on the solution.
WE OFFER 💫
- Health, Dental & Vision Plans
- Life Insurance
- Long/Short Term Disability
- Competitive Pay
- 401k Matching
- Team Member Stock Purchasing Program (TMSPP)
- Learning & Development Opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Unlimited PTO
- Daily Lunch, Snacks & Coffee (in-office only)
- Commuter benefits (in-office only)
Additional information: Salary range of $200,000 - $240,000 bonus & equity benefits. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Rocket Money, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary : $200,000 - $240,000