Betterment
Sr Engineering Manager – API & Auth Platform
$200K–$230K
Betterment HQ - New York City +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Betterment HQ - New York City
61 West 23rd Street, Fifth Floor, New York, New York
About the job
Leads the API & Auth Platform team and sets technical direction for shared APIs, authentication, access control, and internal tooling across Betterment.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow senior and staff engineers building shared API, authentication, and internal tooling platforms.
- Drive GraphQL API strategy and balance reliability, security, developer experience, and platform capabilities.
- Partner with product, IT, security, operations, and business leaders on governance, permissions, incident response, and AI-related access patterns.
What they ask for
- Experience managing senior and staff individual contributors, with ability to coach, guide architecture, review code, and contribute hands-on.
- Track record leading a shared platform used by engineering, operations, and customer support; experience leading cross-team projects.
- Experience managing shared API platforms; hands-on experience with modern authentication and authorization patterns such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, or passkeys.
- Experience partnering with IT, security, and business leaders on governance, access, and permission models.
Nice to have
- GraphQL API platform experience is preferred.
Pay
$200,000 - $230,000 USD base salary
Tools
GraphQL, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, passkeys, MCP
AI focus
Shape how APIs safely support AI agents and tooling in a regulated financial-services environment, including agentic development workflows and AI identity, access, and permission patterns.
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