Lead Full Stack Engineer

Posted Dec 21

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 🤝

The New User Experience team is responsible for surfacing the features that our users need most, as early as possible in their experience using Rocket Money.

We believe first impressions matter. This team aims to raise the bar for first impressions!

IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL:

  • Create experiences that connect users to the most impactful features of our personal finance management platform.
  • Maintain our Dashboard – the highest-traffic, highest-visibility section of our app.
  • Support and grow a small team of highly-skilled full-stack engineers who love shipping quality software, via regular 1:1s and performance reviews.
  • Own the delivery of your team’s work – they are responsible to deliver, but as a leader, ownership of that delivery is yours.
  • Design and extend systems that scale to millions of users and are straightforward to reason about.
  • Collaborate with the product team on a roadmap that evolves this system into the finance management platform of the future.

ABOUT YOU:

  • You have 6+ years of experience in product engineering, working with some combination of Node.js/TypeScript, React (or similar framework), GraphQL, and Postgres (or similar relational database).
  • You’ve led a team of engineers and feel accountable for the output and quality of your team’s work. You empower your team to take the lead and own the work that they do.
  • You love to build and observe healthy distributed systems.
  • You understand that organizations are at their best when engineering effort is aligned to business outcomes. You strive to make that alignment engaging, exciting, and eminently achievable.
  • You’re pragmatic and have a bias for action, even when solutions are less than perfect. You are comfortable galvanizing others toward the right action in healthy and positive ways.
  • You want to help engineers at all levels grow into their best selves.

Additional information: Salary range of $150,000 - $175,000/year + bonus + benefits. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Rocket Money 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.