Senior Engineering Manager

About the Role

Lead a core engineering team building AI-powered tax and financial software that transforms complex documents into structured data for professional users. This hands-on player-coach role combines technical contribution, team leadership, and close collaboration with customer-facing colleagues.

What You'll Do

• Manage and develop a team of 4 to 7 senior, staff, and principal engineers, with plans to grow the team.

• Contribute to production code, review designs, read pull requests, and debug challenging technical issues alongside the team.

• Ship customer-facing AI products using evaluation-driven development to improve the reliability of document data extraction.

• Coach engineers through direct feedback, strengthen technical and product judgment, and support their growth into larger roles.

• Lead hiring and onboarding while building a high-performing engineering team.

• Work with tax professionals and customer-facing teams to connect engineering decisions to customer and business needs.

What We're Looking For

• 10 to 20 years of software engineering experience, including hands-on individual contributor work and formal engineering leadership.

• Experience leading customer-facing products and managing a team of engineers, ideally including staff or principal-level colleagues.

• Strong backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-leaning full-stack experience, with a record of contributing to production software regularly.

• Experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, and setting clear performance expectations for engineers.

• Exposure to AI or machine learning systems, such as document AI, retrieval-based systems, agentic systems, or evaluation-driven development.

• Python, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure experience are useful.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $415,000 to $450,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.