Director, Engineering

Millions in the U.S. continue to be underserved or ignored by traditional financial institutions. At Stash, an investing app for more than 2 million active subscribers, we are addressing that reality by giving everyday Americans the confidence to take charge of their money and financial future. Our plans—starting at just $3 a month—provide easy and affordable access to a suite of products including investing, banking, education, and advice. Stashers are 18% more financially literate than the average American, and customers rely on Stash’s unique tools, guardrails, and content to learn about money and build wealth for the long-term. 

In 2022, we made tremendous steps forward in the Stash customer experience, through the launches of Stash Core, a new banking account experience featuring access to an upgraded Stock-Back® Debit Mastercard®, enhanced customer support, and refreshed benefits, including increased rewards; and expanded access to cryptocurrency through a separate crypto account offering. 

Our Talented Team 

We are proud to attract phenomenal individuals who share our commitment to unlocking financial opportunity for a new generation of investors. Their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences have helped create a thriving and inclusive culture based on the notion of “Prioritizing People,” a Stash core value.  

Let’s solve complex problems and tackle wealth inequality.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering with a passion for building customer-centric, reliable, scalable, and performant software. In this role, you will provide strategic technical guidance and people development for your business unit’s Engineering teams and managers, with a focus on simplicity, scalability, problem solving and successful delivery.  Our ideal candidate will add a technical, mentoring, and mission-driven presence across the broader organization and help lead all of our software engineering efforts. We place great value on cross-functional collaboration skills. In this role, you will support and mentor engineering managers in their career development and work with our VP of Engineering on building processes around recruiting, onboarding, and ongoing employee development. A strong track record of recruiting and retaining high-performing engineering talent is preferred.

What You’ll Do:

TECHNOLOGY AND EXECUTION

• Frame and define the engineering vision for your org.
• Work with teams and stakeholders to ensure clear requirements and deadlines
• Guide engineering teams to continuously improve, meet deadlines, and consistently deliver high-quality software
• Direct and work with engineering teams to solve a class of highly technical problems, including:
• Architecture and design
• Code and code patterns, API design
• Testing and code quality
• Reliability, scalability, and security
• Infrastructure development and cloud cost management
• Deliver business results in accordance with quarterly OKRs
• Work with peers and senior leadership to standardize and evolve engineering methodologies and best practices

DEVELOP LEADERS

• Establish clear goals and standards for engineering managers and senior engineers to promote a culture of ownership; coach and develop these leaders
• Ensure technical and career growth opportunities for team members
• Mentor and sponsor engineers; oversee programs for engineering growth
• Mentor and develop engineers to confidently and capably perform incident management activities in support of our internal SLOs

DEVELOP TEAMS

• Inspire, build, develop, and lead sustainable and reliable engineering teams
• Build and foster a culture of “engineering excellence,” “operational excellence,” “customer obsession,” and ownership
• Build strong working and collaborative relationships with Product Management, UX Design, and Marketing
• Help develop and evangelize a strong engineering culture, including influence across the wider engineering organization
• Partner with the People Team to support and develop recruitment and hiring plans

DEVELOP SYSTEMS

• Build team competencies and processes to quickly react to resolve challenges and bottlenecks while developing these skills in engineering team members
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between our engineering teams and the rest of the organization
• Document and socialize best practices

What We’re Looking For:

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• 10+ years developing customer-facing software and mobile solutions
• BS/MS in Computer Science or relevant industry experience
• Highly proficient technical k