Senior Engineering Manager

About this role

About the RoleLead a core engineering team building AI-powered tools that transform complex tax documents into reliable structured data. This hands-on player-coach role combines people leadership with regular technical contribution as the team grows. What You'll DoManage and grow a team of senior, staff, and principal engineers while contributing code, reviewing designs, and debugging challenging problems.

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

Coach engineers through direct feedback, support their technical and product judgment, and help develop future leaders.

Own hiring, onboarding, and team growth as the organization scales.

Work with domain experts and customer-facing teams to connect engineering decisions to product and business outcomes.

What We're Looking For10 or more years of software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on individual contributor work and formal engineering management experience.

Experience managing a team of engineers, ideally including staff or principal-level reports, while remaining actively involved in production software development.

Backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-leaning full-stack expertise, with current experience writing code, reviewing designs and pull requests, and debugging.

Experience building or leading external, customer-facing products and hiring, onboarding, and scaling engineering teams.

Ability to set clear expectations, give direct feedback, address performance concerns, and help engineers grow.

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 & BenefitsBase salary: $415,000 to $450,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LocationOn-site in San Francisco, California, United States.