Vestwell

Manager, Software Engineer (AI)

New York, NY | Austin, TX

Sponsorship not specified$195k-$205kDetected 14 days ago

Code ReviewGitPostgreSQLAWSDockerCI/CDJenkinsMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAI OrchestrationJiraLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy.
Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and over 2M active savers, with over $50B in assets saved across all 50 states.
To learn more, visit vestwell.com Who Are We Looking For?

Responsibilities

Drive engineering execution by establishing priorities, managing delivery, and ensuring predictable, high-quality outcomes.
Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Security, and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
Architect, build, and oversee the delivery of production-grade AI services with a focus on reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
Establish engineering best practices for software development, testing, deployment, code quality, and operational support.
Recruit, coach, and develop engineering talent while helping shape the long-term growth of the AI Engineering organization.
The Engineering team is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our AI Engineering organization.
This leader will be responsible for building and scaling the engineering team that delivers AI-powered products and enterprise capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3+ years leading engineering teams.
Experience leading engineering teams responsible for AI/ML-enabled products or platforms.
Experience integrating AI services using leading LLM providers and modern AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or similar technologies.
Experience designing cloud-native applications using AWS, Docker, and modern deployment and CI/CD practices.
Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including testing, observability, security, code review, and operational excellence.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working in Agile development environments using tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Jenkins (or equivalent).
Experience in financial technology or regulated industries.
Experience leading engineering organizations through rapid growth or organizational change.

Nice to have

Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and distributed application architectures.

Compensation

The expected base salary range for this position is $195K - $205K base.

Benefits

At Vestwell, we prioritize employee wellbeing through comprehensive health benefits, generous time off, and a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee.
Our platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs.

Company info

And, of course, as a company focused on helping people save for the future, we offer a competitive 401(k) plan.

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