Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

Savvy is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead three engineering teams building the platform where AI meets fiduciary advice. You’ll inherit three established, high‑performing teams, each anchored by a senior tech lead who owns day‑to‑day technical direction. Your job is to keep those teams shipping high‑impact product and platform work, keep the engineers on them growing, and hold the technical and quality bar as we scale.

Key responsibilities

• Own delivery health across three teams: predictable shipping, sane scope, and unblocking engineers fast, in close partnership with Product and Design.
• Grow and retain a strong team: coaching, career development, substantive feedback, and keeping engineers engaged and leveling up.
• Drive our hiring process for these teams: raising the bar on who we bring in and running a tight, fair loop.
• Stay hands‑on with the code: review complex changes, set and hold engineering patterns and standards across product and platform work, and make architectural calls with your tech leads.
• Champion AI tooling across the team (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and whatever’s next), modeling it in your own work and raising the team’s velocity.
• Partner with Product and Design at HQ to shape scope and de‑risk execution on high‑ambiguity problems, and carry that context clearly to a remote team.

Required profile

• Experience managing remote or distributed engineering teams.
• 3+ years managing engineers, including owning delivery, performance, hiring, and growth.
• Aggressive use of AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex in daily workflow.
• Track record of shipping complex product and platform work end‑to‑end with measurable business impact.
• Strong full‑stack or platform engineering depth; comfortable with Rails, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL.
• Strong system‑design judgment: data models, service boundaries, failure modes, and scaling considerations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across functions in a startup environment.
• Based in or willing to relocate to NYC and work in person at our HQ.

Required skills

• Rails
• React
• Next.js
• PostgreSQL
• GraphQL
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• Codex

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays
• Holistic medical, dental, and vision plans
• Company 401(k), commuter, and HSA/FSA plans
• NYC office in the heart of Manhattan
• Lunch and snacks provided in the office
• Virtual mental health care (Spring Health) and health concierge (Rightway)
• Counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)