Vestmark is a leading provider of wealth management solutions and services which enable financial advisors and institutions to efficiently manage and trade their clients' portfolios using an innovative SaaS ecosystem. With over $1+ trillion in assets and 3+ million accounts, we are a trusted partner to some of the largest and most respected players across the wealth management industry. 

Our team of over 400 employees is made up of highly skilled software and quality engineers, implementation specialists, business strategists, and visionaries who maintain an eye toward the future of financial technology. Our employees are our most valuable assets and the reason we have been named Best Places to Work by Boston Business Journal five years in a row. Your energy, enthusiasm, technical curiosity, combined with your appreciation and support of our core values, will be leveraged to help us build the next generation of our wealth management solutions. 

About the Position

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager who will report into our Quality Engineering organization. Our Quality Engineering organization is responsible for championing a ‘Quality first’ mindset across our cross-functional scrum teams, expanding our testing tools and technologies, ensuring the success of our implementation and client delivery teams, and leading the investigation and resolution of production-critical issues.

At the core, this position is focused on leading a team of people who are passionate about using technology to drive quality and ensure an excellent customer experience. This includes QA Automation Engineers and Software Engineers.

In addition to leading a team, our managers have additional responsibilities that align with their interests and expertise. Through their technical or organizational leadership, their mission is to ensure that their area of focus is continually evolving and is well understood and supported throughout engineering and other departments. We are looking for someone that is always thinking about continuous improvement, draws upon their experience and observations, and is willing to be a vocal advocate for change. We want someone that will make us better!

What you will do as a Software Engineering Manager in the QE Dept:

• Serve and collaborate as a team leader in a distributed work environment
• Monitor and determine various staffing and professional development needs
• Recruit, hire, mentor, coach, and energize engineering staff members
• Contribute to the growth and development of our core values: We Before Me, Positive Energy, Knowledge Explorer, and Own It
• Contribute to the growth and development of our Scrum organization by promoting Scrum’s values: Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Openness
• Lead an area of focus or a discipline within Quality Engineering. Additional responsibilities will be defined based on an area of focus, but may include:
  • Organize/lead a Chapter
  • Ensure thorough documentation and knowledge transfer
  • Define metrics
  • Represent your area of focus in meetings with Scrum teams, Products, Senior Management, external teams, department meetings, etc.

Some areas of focus and leadership opportunities for this position include test automation, application performance and scalability, application monitoring and alerting, test data management, release management, or other aspects of quality engineering.

Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:

• S. or M.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of proven experience leading quality or software teams
• 2+ years of hands on leadership experience with Scrum

Additional beneficial experience:

• Issue tracking systems, Jira a plus
• Test automation or performance testing tools, Selenium and JMeter a plus
• Source control and CI tools, Bitbucket and Jenkins a plus
• Application monitoring tools, AppDynamics, Solarwinds and Splunk a plus
• Release management tools, Nexus a plus

Vestmark supports a flexible office/remote work environment for our team members and this position.

Vestmark is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Vestmark prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability status, protected military or veteran status, and genetic information.