Team Leader, Engineering - Performance & Developer Experience

ABOUT THE TEAM 🤝

Team Boost sits at the intersection of user-facing performance and developer productivity. We make Rocket Money fast and reliable for the millions of people who use it, and we make the codebase a joy to work with. We own the tooling, infrastructure, and best practices that help every engineer at Rocket Money ship faster and with more confidence. We believe that the best outcomes happen when we make it easy for engineers to build performant software by default.

If you're the kind of leader who gets excited about building a team that shaves milliseconds off app startup time, seconds off a critical database query, and minutes off a colleague's feedback loop, you could be a great fit as the Team Leader who will set the vision, shape the strategy, and grow Boost’s role as a force multiplier for every engineer at Rocket Money.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:

• Lead Team Boost. Every week brings a flood of incoming problems — five-minute fixes that save hundreds of engineer-hours sit next to multi-day efforts with dubious payoff. Apply the technical depth to triage them confidently and the judgment to know which deserve real investment.
• Stay close to the code. Trust your engineers with the critical path, apply your own coding chops to the high-leverage edges, and keep metrics, project status, and stakeholders in clear view.
• Own the roadmap. Self-source work from internal feedback across engineering, build trusted partnerships with your Group Director, counterparts across the organization, and product engineering to evaluate and absorb cross-organizational requests and make clear calls about what the team will and won't take on.
• Drive projects to a conclusion. Make decisions, clear blockers, and hold the bar for delivery so the team consistently ships high-quality, high-impact work across the org.
• Support and grow the team. Hold regular 1:1s, deliver performance reviews, and build individualized growth plans that match each engineer's strengths and ambitions.
• Champion DX and UX. Make the right thing the easiest thing. From user-facing performance to developer feedback loops, build the programs and projects that follow this core principle. You'll sponsor the RFCs, migrations, and architectural changes that span the codebase and the organization, always pushing us toward an easier, more efficient, and less frustrating experience for team members and users alike.
• Establish performance and quality as measurable practices. Define what 'good' looks like across client rendering, server latency, and CI, and lead the team in the instrumentation, automation, and quality gates that turn those metrics into durable habits.
• Keep the foundation solid. Ensure the team thoughtfully manages critical dependencies, breaking changes, pnpm catalogs, patches, and overrides across our package graph so the codebase stays buildable and maintainable as it grows.

ABOUT YOU 🦄

• You're an engineer who leads engineers. You have 6+ years of experience shipping production systems — ideally with some combination of Node/TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, and Postgres — and a track record of leading senior ICs, including in areas where your reports are significant contributors.