Engineering Manager

About Us

Estate planning is vital for anyone who wants to ensure their loved ones are cared for when they’re gone. But traditional estate planning is broken. It’s confusing, expensive, and tedious, and it’s often done without regard to a person’s financial plan. Vanilla is here to change all that. We are reinventing estate planning for financial advisors, attorneys, and their clients. We’re transforming it into an ongoing conversation, where dense legal documents are brought to life through easy-to-understand visualizations, and considered  in concert with clients’ financial plans and evolving life milestones and goals.

Vanilla is the world’s first estate advisory platform, built by advisors and estate professionals to help deliver a modern, visual estate planning experience to their clients. Harnessing a purpose-built AI engine called VAI, the Vanilla platform provides valuable insights to advisors and attorneys while demystifying the planning process for clients at all levels of wealth. Vanilla supports the entire estate planning process, including understanding client goals and current plans, visualizing the plan, and strategizing on taxes. Clients can even create trusts, healthcare directives, powers of attorney, and more through Vanilla. The Vanilla platform enables advisors, planners, and attorneys to foster stronger relationships, achieve greater retention, and help their clients build meaningful legacies.

Job Summary

As the Engineering Manager at Vanilla, you will lead a dynamic team of engineers, provide technical direction, foster collaboration across various teams within the company and support the professional growth of your team members. This role demands a leader with a solid technical foundation, outstanding leadership abilities, and a passion for nurturing innovation in a fast-paced, start-up environment.

This role is a remote position, you must be based out of one of the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WA D.C.

Responsibilities 

• Provide technical and product leadership guiding your team in delivering high-quality, innovative products by setting clear goals, ensuring alignment with company objectives, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

• Lead frontend and backend development teams and their projects

• Hire talented engineers from various backgrounds, ensuring an inclusive work environment that encourages different perspectives and ideas

• Support the career development of your team members through mentorship, training, and growth opportunities. 

• Work cross functionally with other departments (e.g., product management, design, marketing, sales, customer support) to ensure alignment and support for engineering initiatives

• Implement metrics and KPIs to track and improve engineering performance and product quality

• Partner with Legal and Security to ensure compliance with security regulations

• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 5+ years of experience as an engineering manager

• Experience at SaaS start up or scaling companies is preferred 

• Demonstrated track record of designing, building, and operating software products and great user experiences

• Enjoy dealing with ambiguity and working independently, driving impact across teams

• Strong written and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off policy and 12 company-wide paid holidays 

• Parental leave, 4 weeks for all full-time employees and up to 12 weeks for birthing parents

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits coverage for employees and their families 

• 401K and employer match eligibility after one month of employment

• Budget for learning & development, health & wellness, and home office setup 

• Paid parking or transit for hybrid and in office employees

The salary range for this role is $185,000 to $215,000. Our compensation packages also include a performance based bonus and equity.  Compensation is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Vanilla Technologies Inc. (dba "Vanilla") provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Vanilla participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.