Senior Engineering Manager

Savvy•New York, NY

1d•$240,000 - $265,000•Onsite

About The Position

Savvy is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead three established engineering teams building a platform where AI meets fiduciary advice. Each team has a senior tech lead responsible for day-to-day technical direction. The role focuses on sustaining high-impact product and platform delivery, developing engineers, and maintaining technical and quality standards as the company scales. This is a hands-on management role based in person at Savvy’s New York City headquarters, working alongside Product Managers, Product Designers, and other stakeholders. The engineering team is fully remote across LATAM and works the same hours as the HQ team. The manager bridges product direction and engineering execution, contributes technical context to planning, reviews complex changes, and makes architectural decisions with the tech leads. Savvy expects the manager to use AI tools to remain technically engaged while leading.

Requirements

Experience managing remote or distributed engineering teams.
At least 3 years of experience managing engineers, including responsibility for delivery, performance, hiring, and growth.
Aggressive daily use of AI tools, such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex; technical proficiency with emerging tools and ability to apply them to team workflows.
A track record of shipping complex product and platform work end-to-end with measurable business impact while maintaining quality.
Strong full-stack or platform engineering expertise sufficient to lead and review credibly; familiarity with Rails, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL, or the ability to close gaps quickly.
Strong system-design judgment, including data models, service boundaries, failure modes, and scalability, applied to architecture guidance and developing team instincts.
Strong written and verbal communication, effective feedback skills, and the ability to collaborate across functions in a startup environment, including with a remote team.
Based in or willing to relocate to NYC and work in person at the headquarters.

Nice To Haves

Experience building production AI-powered features customers rely on, such as LLM integrations, agentic workflows, or intelligent automations, and understanding tradeoffs involving reliability, latency, cost, and failure modes.
Fintech domain knowledge, including financial services, wealth management, regulatory compliance, or financial data integrations.
Experience leading in an early-stage, high-ambiguity startup environment.

Responsibilities

Own delivery health across three teams, including predictable shipping, appropriate scope, and quickly unblocking engineers in partnership with Product and Design.
Coach engineers, support career development, provide substantive feedback, and help maintain engagement and growth.
Lead hiring for the teams, raise the hiring bar, and run an effective and fair hiring process.
Stay hands-on with code by reviewing complex changes, setting and maintaining engineering patterns and standards, and making architectural decisions with tech leads.
Champion AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex by using them in personal work and improving team velocity.
Partner with Product and Design at HQ to shape scope and reduce execution risk on ambiguous problems, and communicate that context clearly to the remote team.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity package.
Generous relocation package for moving to the NYC office.
Unlimited PTO and paid company holidays.
Medical, dental, and vision plans.
Company 401(k), including Mega backdoor Roth options.
Commuter benefits and HSA/FSA plans.
NYC office in Union Square.
Lunch and snacks provided in the office, and dinner if staying late.
Access to virtual mental health care through Spring Health and a health concierge through Rightway.
Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues through Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP.