Director Performance Engineering Jobs in San Ramon, CA

ABOUT ROCKET MONEY

Rocket Money's mission is to meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of millions of people. Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money - ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey.

Please note: We strongly encourage team members to be in the office 1-2 days per week, though there is no formal in-office requirement.

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 significantly deeper experts than you. You set direction, ask the right questions, build rapport, and trust the team to bring the depth.
• You have wide breadth and real depth in a few areas. You can dive into unfamiliar systems and trace a performance regression through GraphQL resolvers, ORM layers, or caching; you've led large-scale codebase migrations where "just rewrite it" wasn't an option; and you know how to break massive changes into safe, incremental steps that can each be reported on.
• You drive outcomes. You make decisions when they need to be made, clear blockers actively, and keep projects moving toward a quality conclusion. You're equally comfortable making the call and leaving room for the people closest to the work to shape the path as you are collaborating directly with ICs and diving into the code to get the results you're seeking.
• You tailor your management to the person. You recognize that great engineers have their own mix of breadth and deep specialties and ways of working; you match projects to their strengths, and you actively build growth plans aligned to where each person wants to go next.
• You treat developer feedback loops as a product. Save-to-screen, commit-to-CI, user-to-metric. You measure them, instrument them, and systematically shrink them. Experience with APM tools, GitHub Actions, E2E testing frameworks, mobile build toolchains, large-scale TypeScript + GraphQL stacks, pnpm workspaces, or FinTech/consumer apps are all plusses.

WE OFFER

• Health, Dental & Vision Plans
• Life Insurance
• Long/Short Term Disability
• Competitive Pay
• 401k Matching
• Team Member Stock Purchasing Program (TMSPP)
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Unlimited PTO
• Daily Lunch, Snacks & Coffee (in-office only)
• Commuter benefits (in-office only)

Additional Information: Salary range of $150,000 - $200,000/year + bonus + benefits. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Rocket Money is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.