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Engineering Director, Systems

Rocket Money builds tools that help millions manage their finances. The Systems Group owns the foundational infrastructure — cloud, release engineering, developer experience, security, and frontend design systems — and is seeking an experienced engineering leader to grow and support leaders, own the systems roadmap, and ensure high reliability and performance for consumer-scale products.

Skills

  • Proven experience leading multiple engineering managers and large technical orgs
  • Deep technical fluency across frontend, backend, and infrastructure (React to cloud infra)
  • Strong background in building scalable consumer-facing systems and services
  • Hands-on experience with incident management, observability, and performance optimization
  • Experience driving developer experience, CI/CD, and release engineering improvements
  • Ability to distill business needs into technical roadmaps and execute cross-team initiatives

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow leaders across Cloud Infrastructure, Release Engineering, DevEx, IT & InfoSec, and Frontend Design Systems
  • Own reliability, performance, and quality for systems used by millions; act as escalation path for production incidents
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to translate business objectives into the Systems roadmap and ensure execution
  • Collaborate with Program Management to deliver cross-cutting, organization-wide projects
  • Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent and coach managers to support and grow their teams
  • Drive tooling and automation to increase team productivity and reduce operational overhead
  • Promote observability, performance tuning, and measurable SLAs/SLIs across systems

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Prefer graduate degree in technical or business field (optional)

Benefits

  • Health, dental & vision insurance
  • Life insurance and long/short-term disability
  • Competitive pay with bonus & equity
  • 401(k) matching and Team Member Stock Purchasing Program
  • Tuition reimbursement and learning & development programs
  • Unlimited PTO; commuter perks and daily in-office lunch/snacks (office locations only)
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Rocket Money allows parents to create skill-based challenges to motivate their children to earn real money. An allowance with a Purpose.

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