Senior Engineering Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE Lead a core engineering team building AI-powered products that turn complex tax documents into reliable structured data for professional users. This hands-on player-coach role combines technical contribution, team development, and product delivery. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Manage and grow a team of senior, staff, and principal engineers while contributing code and reviewing designs. - Ship customer-facing, evaluation-driven AI products for extracting structured information from unstructured tax documents. - Coach engineers through direct feedback, helping them strengthen technical and product judgment and grow into leadership roles. - Lead hiring, onboarding, and team growth as the organization scales. - Partner with tax professionals and customer-facing teams to connect engineering decisions to user needs and business outcomes. - Work alongside senior engineers to debug challenging technical problems and guide implementation. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including progression from senior individual contributor work into formal engineering management. - Experience managing at least five engineers, ideally including staff- or principal-level engineers, and scaling teams through hiring and onboarding. - Current hands-on software development experience, with a background in production coding, design reviews, pull request reviews, and debugging. - Backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-leaning full-stack expertise. - Experience building or leading customer-facing products in product-focused technology organizations. - Strong coaching and performance management skills, including setting expectations and addressing issues directly. - Exposure to AI or machine learning systems, such as document AI, retrieval-based or agentic systems, or evaluation-driven development. Python, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure experience are useful. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $415,000 to $450,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.