Senior Engineering Manager

About this role

About the RoleLead a core engineering team building AI-powered products that transform complex tax documents into reliable structured data. This hands-on player-coach role combines people leadership with regular technical contributions as the team grows. What You'll DoManage and develop a team of senior, staff, and principal engineers, with plans to grow the team over the coming year.

Write and review production code, assess designs, and debug challenging technical problems alongside the team.

Ship customer-facing, evaluation-driven AI products for extracting structured information from unstructured tax documents.

Coach engineers on technical and product judgment, provide direct feedback, and support their career growth.

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

Work with tax professionals and customer-facing partners to connect engineering decisions to customer needs and business outcomes.

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

Experience managing a team of five or more engineers, ideally including staff- and principal-level engineers.

Current hands-on coding experience, with a track record of writing production software, reviewing designs and pull requests, and debugging complex issues.

Backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-leaning full-stack expertise.

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

Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, giving direct feedback, addressing performance concerns, and developing engineers into larger roles.

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 & BenefitsBase salary: $415,000 to $450,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LocationOn-site in San Francisco, California, United States.