About the Company

Our client is a well-funded, venture-backed startup (founded 2024) building an AI-native platform for the finance and accounting space, automating workflows end to end so finance teams move faster and carry less risk. The company has raised significant capital from top-tier investors, serves customers from mid-market businesses to publicly listed enterprises, and is scaling quickly from roughly 70 people toward 200+.

Founded 2024 · ~70 people · Industry: Fintech, AI, Enterprise Software

The Role

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You would report to the Head of Engineering, manage a distributed team of 20 to 30 engineers across time zones, and work on-site in New York. It is a greenfield opportunity to build the managerial layer from scratch while staying deeply technical and shipping code daily.

What you will be doing

Designing and rolling out core engineering processes from scratch: performance reviews, feedback loops, reporting structures, and pod organization
Helping drive a major infrastructure migration (AWS to Kubernetes) alongside the SRE team
Making architectural decisions and writing code daily in a multiple-deploys-per-day environment
Partnering with Product on roadmap and prioritization while unblocking engineers and delivering major features

Tech stack: Python, Django, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS Fargate, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions

Requirements

5+ years in backend-heavy software engineering, with a track record moving from senior IC (staff/principal) into hands-on engineering management
Proven experience building and scaling an engineering team from the ground up, and eagerness to lead and grow a team of roughly 25 engineers while defining its performance metrics
Genuinely hands-on: you still write and ship code daily and want to keep doing so
Strong backend engineer with deep Python proficiency
BS in Computer Science or an equivalent technical degree
Thrive in fast-paced, low-structure environments; high agency, low ego, and quick, decisive judgment
Comfortable managing a distributed team of 20 to 30 engineers across multiple time zones
Able to work on-site in New York City five days a week

Nice to Haves

Background at a platform-as-a-service or fintech company
Hands-on experience with system architecture and infrastructure migrations (Kubernetes, AWS)
Frontend experience with React/TypeScript

Why Join

Join a fast-scaling, well-capitalized team backed by leading investors
Build the entire engineering management layer from scratch and shape how the org grows
Stay technical: this is a leadership role for someone who still loves to code and ship
Competitive compensation with meaningful equity