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Senior Team Leader of AI Engineering Rocket Money
Smart financial management and spending analysis app.
Permanent
Washington
Fully-remote
200K to 280K $ a year
> 5 years
Continuous improvement
Shiny
GraphQL
React
React Native
+1
You'll be part of
294 employees
Logiciels
Finance
Our take
Managing finances has become increasingly difficult in the last couple of decades, despite access to online banking and other financial apps. The mass of subscriptions, standing orders and utility bills the average American is subject to ultimately makes it difficult to assess and manage their finances within one place. Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) provides a mobile application that includes a variety of tools that aim to simplify financial management. Tools include an automatic subscription tracker which aims to increase transparency and simplicity for canceling unwanted subscriptions, in addition to monthly spending analytics and budgeting plans. Whilst there seems to be an app for just about every form of financial management, Rocket Money has taken much-needed action by unifying everything into a single app. The company initially focused on financial management tools, it's now branched out to more direct financial tools such as utility bill comparison services, autopilot saving and paycheck advance loans.
You'll be working on
- Rocket Money’s mission is to meaningfully improve the financial lives of millions of people. We help customers understand their money, reduce waste, stay on top of bills and subscriptions, and take action with more confidence
- The Rowan team is building the next generation of that work: a personal finance assistant that can notice what matters, reach out at the right moment, and help finish the job. Rowan’s goal is to be useful in the moments when people need help but do not have the time, energy, or context to do everything themselves
- Rowan’s already serving users with capabilities such as organizing someone’s finances, helping cancel or negotiate a bill, or surfacing the next action that gives a customer time, money, or peace of mind back
- As the Team Leader, Engineering for Rowan, you will lead the engineering team behind one of Rocket Money’s most ambitious product bets: building an agentic personal finance assistant that works over text message and, over time, potentially other surfaces too
- This role owns the engineering craft, execution, and growth of the engineers on Rowan
- Rowan’s promise is not “can it answer the question?” The promise is “can it safely, accurately, and verifiably solve the problem?” That means the work sits at the intersection of LLM-powered conversation, deterministic execution systems, human-in-the-loop operations, money movement constraints, trust and safety, and consumer-grade product craft
- You will set technical direction for the engineering team in service of the Rowan strategy, partner with other functional leaders on Rowan’s roadmap, grow senior engineers, and stay close enough to the product and systems to know what is actually working
- You will help the team decide when a task should be handled by AI, by programmatic behavior, by a human, or by a hybrid workflow
- You will also help create the operating system for how Rowan’s engineers builds: how we evaluate quality, recover from mistakes, earn customer trust, and turn ambiguous AI capabilities into dependable product experiences
- Lead, develop, and grow the Rowan engineering team, setting a high bar for technical judgment, product quality, customer trust, and steady execution
- Partner with product leadership to translate Rowan’s strategy (be the agent that finishes the job) into engineering plans and shipped capabilities that create measurable customer value
- Stay close to the full Rowan experience: conversational interfaces, orchestration, memory, app surfaces, detection systems, operational rails, human escalation paths, and the safety models required to act on someone’s finances
- Help the team build agentic capabilities that do consistent, correct and reliable work end-to-end
- Drive projects to a conclusion by making decisions, clearing blockers, aligning stakeholders, and helping the team consistently ship high-quality work customers can feel
- Build the systems and habits that make AI work dependable: eval frameworks, observability, approvals, fallbacks, recovery paths, human-in-the-loop workflows, and clear ownership
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Operations, Legal, Support, and Engineering leadership to help choose the highest-leverage bets, make crisp tradeoffs, and bring an engineering point of view to what Rowan should and should not take on
- Create a team environment where senior engineers can stretch across product, AI, systems, operations, and trust while doing some of the best work of their careers
- Hold regular 1:1s, deliver performance reviews, build individualized growth plans, and tailor your coaching to each person’s strengths, ambitions, and working style
- Help raise the product bar beyond chat toward proactive, rewarding, trustworthy experiences that make Rowan feel like one assistant everywhere
- Stay curious about the frontier of AI engineering and help the team adopt new workflows, tools, and patterns where they make the work better
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Plans
- Unlimited PTO
- Life Insurance
- Long/Short Term Disability
- Parental Leave
- 401k Matching
- Team Member Stock Purchasing Program
- Learning & Development Opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
We're looking for
- This is a role for an engineering leader who is excited by and experienced in AI as an execution layer, not just a conversation layer
- This is a good fit for someone who likes hard, slightly messy problems; who can move with urgency without turning urgency into panic; and who believes the less glamorous parts of agentic products (orchestration, approvals, evals, observability, operational fallbacks, and recovery paths) are not overhead. They are the product
- Have experience shipping production agentic software and a strong track record leading engineering teams, including senior ICs working in complex or ambiguous domains
- Have technical depth and range across some combination of backend services, product surfaces, data systems, AI workflows, operational tooling, or consumer fintech products
- Are an engineer who leads engineers. You can set direction and grow people while staying close enough to the work to pair on hard problems, review system design, write code at the right moments, and model strong engineering judgment
- Are energized by continuous improvement. You notice where a workflow is quietly painful, where an eval is too vague, where a recovery path is missing, or where the team has accepted too much uncertainty as normal
- Are excited by AI as an execution layer. You understand that LLMs are powerful, but that real customer value comes from orchestration, tools, workflows, evaluation, approvals, observability, and recovery
- Have hands-on or deeply practical familiarity with LLM applications, agentic systems, workflow orchestration, evals, and the tradeoffs involved in moving from prototype to production
- Have strong product judgment. You can reason from customer need to product experience to technical architecture, and you know the difference between a clever demo and a durable customer-facing system
- Are comfortable with urgency, but not recklessness. You can help a team move quickly in a short strategic window while keeping both hands on the wheel
- Are comfortable driving outcomes in ambiguity. You can take a broad strategic mandate, identify the crux, sequence the work, make tradeoffs, and keep a team moving without waiting for perfect clarity
- Hold a high bar for quality and trust. You know that an assistant acting on personal finances has to be accurate enough to earn the right to act, and you are comfortable slowing down when the alternative would spend customer trust
- Are a tenacious learner. You stay engaged with what is changing in AI, team workflows, product expectations, and operational systems without chasing every shiny object
- Lead through clarity. You explain the why, create alignment across functions, and give engineers enough context to make good local decisions
- Experience building or leading teams that combine probabilistic AI systems with deterministic execution paths, operational workflows, or human-in-the-loop review
- Experience with TypeScript, Node, React, React Native, GraphQL, Postgres, LLM applications, agentic systems, workflow orchestration, or consumer fintech products
- Experience partnering deeply with Product, Design, Data, Operations, Legal, Support, or other cross-functional teams in a sensitive customer domain
- Experience improving reliability, observability, alerting, incident response, operational quality, or other systems that make software safer and more dependable over time
- A track record of creating team infrastructure from the ground up: hiring practices, onboarding, technical playbooks, coaching systems, review rituals, or quality frameworks
- A visible habit of raising the bar for both product craft and engineering rigor without making the team feel buried under process
- Firsthand experience building products where customer trust, permissions, explainability, and recovery paths are central to the experience