Sr. Engineering Manager – San Francisco, CA

We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to serve as a hands-on player-coach for an engineering team. The role will initially manage 4–6 engineers, with the team expected to grow to 10–12 engineers, primarily at the Staff and Principal levels. The Engineering Manager will remain an active technical contributor, particularly during the first 3–6 months.

The role focuses on raising the technical and product bar, developing exceptional engineers and future leaders, improving team output, and delivering measurable customer impact.

Technical Areas:

• Document ingestion and extraction
• Tax-data systems
• AI-native preparation and review
• Evaluation infrastructure
• Platform reliability
• AI-driven software development

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute directly to technical design, implementation, debugging, testing, and releases.
• Review designs and code while remaining technically engaged with the codebase.
• Guide effective AI-driven development across the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and coach experienced engineers and future technical leaders.
• Provide clear expectations, feedback, mentoring, and performance guidance.
• Establish evaluation frameworks, metrics, test cases, datasets, and regression guardrails.
• Translate production failures and customer feedback into actionable engineering improvements.
• Define ownership, milestones, delivery expectations, and operating rhythms.
• Improve forecasting and identify technical and delivery risks early.
• Work closely with tax professionals, customers, product teams, and engineering teams.
• Make informed product and technical decisions when a product manager is not present.
• Lead hiring, candidate assessment, onboarding, interviewer calibration, and team development.
• Build a high-talent-density engineering organization focused on customer impact.

Required Qualifications:

• Recent experience writing and delivering meaningful production software.
• Ability to review technical designs, read pull requests, debug complex issues, and participate in senior-level technical discussions.
• Experience directly managing experienced software engineers while continuing to contribute technically.
• Demonstrated ability to improve individual engineer growth and overall team output.
• Experience delivering customer-facing, evaluation-driven products.
• Strong product and customer judgment.
• Experience connecting engineering decisions to adoption, customer trust, revenue, or operational outcomes.
• Experience working in both startup environments and larger enterprise organizations.
• Strong understanding of engineering leadership, stakeholder management, governance, security, and technical dependencies.

Preferred Skills:

• Python
• TypeScript
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Agentic AI
• Retrieval-Based Systems
• Document AI
• Tax Technology
• Enterprise Data Products
• AI Evaluation Infrastructure

Work Location: Downtown San Francisco, CA
Work Schedule: 5 days per week onsite
Compensation: $300,000 – $400,000 annually
Relocation: Relocation assistance to the San Francisco area may be provided.

Core Values

• Championship-winning mindset
• Team First
• Tenacious
• Accountant Obsessed
• Genuine Fun