About Us:

SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice that powers SmartAdvisor, a national marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors. Reaching approximately 75 million people each month (as of Sept. 2021) through its educational content and personalized calculators and tools, SmartAsset’s mission is to help people make smart financial decisions. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ lists of fastest-growing companies in 2021, SmartAsset recently closed a $110 million Series D round, valuing the company at over $1 billion. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator’s list of Top 100 Companies of all time and Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2020. For more information, please visit SmartAsset.com.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and guidance to our software engineers in the development of their careers
• Collaboratively work within the technology organization and other stakeholders to apply the principles of the Agile methodology in developing and executing the product roadmap
• Continuously improve the process of delivering software at scale
• Partner in the career growth our technical team, including your own
• Improve the capacity of your teams by aggressively hiring and identifying key roles
• Partner in technical decision making and provide technical direction to your scrum teams
• Understand and anticipate the needs of engineering managers to ensure multiple scrum teams are able to perform at their peak

Required Skills and Experience:

• 12+ years experience in a highly technical role
• 5+ years experience providing leadership and management to software engineers
• 2+ years experience in managing managers
• Demonstrated proficiency in communicating technical needs as part of collaborating with Product leaders as they define product roadmaps
• Articulate in a variety of modern web and non-web technologies
• Familiarity with software architecture principles
• A love of computer programing - the role is mainly leadership but an occasional proof of concept or bug fix may be necessary
• Leadership in promoting best practices and high quality code through your managers to your teams
• Extensive experience in interviewing good-fit engineering candidates
• Demonstrated proficiency of planning, prioritizing and realizing technical improvements in the coordination of a technical scrum team
• Skillful in communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• You thrive in learning from colleagues and mentoring others