Rocket Money
FinTech
TeamLeader,Engineering-Performance&DeveloperExperience
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“Team Leader, Engineering - Performance & Developer Experience at Rocket Money. Skills: leading engineers, shipping production systems, setting direction, asking the right questions, driving outcomes, developer feedback loops as a product. Lead Team Boost. triage incoming problems”
What You'll Achieve.
shaves milliseconds off app startup time; seconds off a critical database query; minutes off a colleague's feedback loop; ship faster and with more confidence; make the right thing the easiest thing; easier, more efficient, and less frustrating experience for team members and users alike; turn those metrics into durable habits; codebase stays buildable and maintainable as it grows; systematically shrink developer feedback loops
Industry & Context.
technical depth to triage them confidently; judgment to know which deserve real investment; dive into unfamiliar systems; trace a performance regression
in-office 1-2 days per week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years of experience shipping production systems, track record of leading senior ICs
Nice to Have
some combination of Node/TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, and Postgres, APM tools, GitHub Actions, E2E testing frameworks, mobile build toolchains, large-scale TypeScript + GraphQL stacks, pnpm workspaces, FinTech/consumer apps
What You'll Do.
triage incoming problems
stay close to the code
drive projects to a conclusion
support and grow the team
establish performance and quality as measurable practices
keep the foundation solid
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
build trusted partnerships with your Group Director; counterparts across the organization; product engineering; collaborating directly with ICs
Communication Scope
build rapport
Process & Methodology
own the roadmap, drive projects to a conclusion, make decisions, clear blockers, hold the bar for delivery, breaking massive changes into safe, incremental steps
Full Job Description
ABOUT ROCKET MONEY 🔮 Rocket Money's mission is to meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of millions of people. 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. Please note: We strongly encourage team members to be in the office 1-2 days per week, though there is no formal in-office requirement. ABOUT THE TEAM 🤝 Team Boost sits at the intersection of user-facing performance and developer productivity. We make Rocket Money fast and reliable for the millions of people who use it, and we make the codebase a joy to work with. We own the tooling, infrastructure, and best practices that help every engineer at Rocket Money ship faster and with more confidence. We believe that the best outcomes happen when we make it easy for engineers to build performant software by default. If you're the kind of leader who gets excited about building a team that shaves milliseconds off app startup time, seconds off a critical database query, and minutes off a colleague's feedback loop, you could be a great fit as the Team Leader who will set the vision, shape the strategy, and grow Boost’s role as a force multiplier for every engineer at Rocket Money. IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL: Lead Team Boost. Every week brings a flood of incoming problems — five-minute fixes that save hundreds of engineer-hours sit next to multi-day efforts with dubious payoff. Apply the technical depth to triage them confidently and the judgment to know which deserve real investment. Stay close to the code. Trust your engineers with the critical path, apply your own coding chops to the high-leverage edges, and keep metrics, project status, and stakeholders in clear view. Own the roadmap. Self-source work from internal feedback across engineering, build trusted partnerships with your Group Director, counterparts across the organization, and product engineering to evaluate a
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