Team Leader, Engineering - Performance & Developer Experience

Rocket Money•Washington, DC

2d•$150,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This role involves setting the vision, shaping the strategy, and growing Boost’s role as a force multiplier for every engineer at Rocket Money.

Requirements

6+ years of experience shipping production systems.
Experience with Node/TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, and Postgres is ideal.
Track record of leading senior ICs, including in areas where reports are deeper experts.
Ability to dive into unfamiliar systems and trace performance regressions.
Experience leading large-scale codebase migrations where a full rewrite is not an option.
Ability to break massive changes into safe, incremental steps.
Ability to make decisions, clear blockers, and keep projects moving toward a quality conclusion.
Ability to tailor management to the individual, matching projects to strengths and building growth plans.
Treat developer feedback loops as a product, measuring, instrumenting, and systematically shrinking them.

Nice To Haves

Experience with APM tools.
Experience with GitHub Actions.
Experience with E2E testing frameworks.
Experience with mobile build toolchains.
Experience with large-scale TypeScript + GraphQL stacks.
Experience with pnpm workspaces.
Experience in FinTech/consumer apps.

Responsibilities

Lead Team Boost, triaging incoming problems and determining which deserve real investment.
Stay close to the code, applying coding chops to high-leverage edges and keeping metrics, project status, and stakeholders in clear view.
Own the roadmap by sourcing work from internal feedback, building partnerships, and making clear decisions about team capacity.
Drive projects to a conclusion by making decisions, clearing blockers, and holding the bar for delivery.
Support and grow the team through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and individualized growth plans.
Champion DX and UX by making the right thing the easiest thing, sponsoring RFCs, migrations, and architectural changes.
Establish performance and quality as measurable practices by defining 'good' and leading instrumentation, automation, and quality gates.
Ensure the team thoughtfully manages critical dependencies, breaking changes, pnpm catalogs, patches, and overrides across the package graph.