Senior Manager, Software Engineering
About the role
At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact because when one Nerd levels up, we all do. NerdWallet's RIA (Registered Investment Advisory) team builds and operates the platforms that power our financial advisory experiences. They own our lead generation marketplace, content rendering infrastructure, and the systems supporting our wealth management firms’ business and website. These platforms ensure accurate, compliant, and high-performance experiences across web and mobile for users seeking financial guidance. We are looking for a Senior Manager, Engineer to help shape the evolution of our advisory and marketplace systems into scalable, reliable platforms that enable faster iteration, stronger observability, and continued growth in our investment advisory business. In this role you will lead and support a team of engineers and product managers delivering high-quality, scalable, and secure software that advances NerdWallet’s product and business goals. You’ll drive product and work with cross-functional collaborators to shape the roadmap, prioritize work, and remove obstacles, while fostering strong engineering practices and a culture of continuous learning. You’ll be accountable for technical quality, team health, and day-to-day execution—mentoring and developing engineers, making thoughtful technical decisions, and balancing near-term delivery with long-term maintainability, compliance, and reliability. This role reports to the Senior Director, General Manager. Where you can make an impact: Lead, coach, and develop a product and engineering team responsible for NerdWallet’s Advisory systems, including the lead gen marketplace, content, and top of funnel Partner with Product Managers and other cross-functional stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and execute against the product roadmap Drive consistent execution of software development best practices, including code quality, testing, documentation, and operational excellence Contribute to and guide technical and architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant with SEC regulatory