Senior Engineering Manager

About the Role

Lead a core engineering team building AI-powered products that transform complex tax documents into reliable structured data. This hands-on player-coach role combines technical contribution, team development, and product decisions in a growing financial software business.

What You'll Do

• Manage and grow a team of senior, staff, and principal engineers while contributing code, reviewing designs, and debugging complex problems.

• Ship customer-facing, evaluation-driven AI products for document processing and structured data extraction.

• Coach engineers through direct feedback, support their technical and product judgment, and help them grow into broader roles.

• Lead hiring, onboarding, and team development as the organization scales.

• Partner with domain experts and customer-facing teams to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes.

What We're Looking For

• 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on individual contributor work and formal engineering management.

• Experience managing a team of at least five engineers, ideally including staff- or principal-level engineers, and building or scaling customer-facing products.

• Backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-oriented full-stack expertise, with current production coding and technical review experience.

• Strong coaching, feedback, performance management, hiring, and team-building skills.

• 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.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $415,000 to $450,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.