The Challenge
At Digit, we are on a mission to make financial health effortless for everyone. We are building the world’s first intelligent bank account to help millions of American consumers become financially healthy. Our challenge is clear: managing personal finances is hard. As of 2019, 70% of Americans struggle with at least one aspect of financial stability and over 40% don’t have $400 in their savings account. We believe automation is our path to delivering our mission, and we are working towards it every day.
We have a collaborative, diverse, and supportive culture and we look for people who are curious, ambitious, and mission-driven. If you’re passionate about building something that’s never been built before and helping real people every day we’re excited to meet you!

The Role
We are looking for experienced engineering leaders with a passion for developing people, driving product development and engineering excellence, and scaling teams. Your role will primarily be people focused, while helping drive the development of Digit’s core products. 
What You’ll Do:

• Recruit and coach strong product engineers, helping them advance in their careers
• Build trust with your direct reports by managing with empathy and setting clear expectations
• Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and other engineering leads to build the roadmap, strategy, and priorities for your team
• Drive strong engineering practices around product development execution, operational excellence in observability, quality, reliability, and developer efficiency
• Align with tech leads and Product Managers to commit and execute on an ambitious product roadmaps
• Empower and delegate effectively to grow individuals on your team into new leaders
• Drive strong communication and strategic alignment up, down and sideways within the organization
• Be a champion for Diversity and Inclusion by sourcing, hiring, and advocating for a diverse group of engineers

Who You Are:

• Experience managing an engineering team in a high impact, high growth environment
• Track record of recruiting, building, and growing high performing engineering teams, encouraging a healthy work environment that’s both supportive and challenging
• 5+ years of individual contributor engineering experience in a modern tech stack with meaningful experience as a tech lead, leading projects through completion
• You love helping engineers develop new skills and advance in their careers. You don’t shy away from performance conversations and you recognize the relationship between constructive feedback and career growth
• You possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• You are very organized and work very well cross-functionally - in a fast moving company, strong organizational skills for both yourself and your team is needed to be successful
• You have growth mindset and continually look to improve and expand your skill set
• You have an eye for great products, and can work effectively with engineers, product managers, and designers to build them

Who We Are:
We want to eliminate the stress and anxiety people feel about their finances so they can focus on what’s most important in their lives. We first mastered saving for near-term goals, helping members automatically save over $6B in cumulative savings and prevented $170M in overdraft fees. Today, we are harnessing machine learning technology to give our members the first intelligent bank account that manages all of their personal finances.
We’re committed to doing the best work of our lives together. Come see if Digit is right for you.
What We Offer You:

• Competitive salary and stock options with robust equity refresh program
• 100% paid medical, dental, & vision benefits
• 100% paid life & disability insurance
• Fertility reimbursement
• Daily lunch stipend
• Internet, commuter, and wellness benefits
• Take what you need PTO policy
• 401k plan
• Flexible, hybrid work environment

Digit is a proud equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative. We welcome people of different backgrounds, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and perspectives. We don’t discriminate based upon any protected class and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply. Digit considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Digit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].