Engineering Manager

What you'll do: Build the team. Hire, mentor and develop a high-performing group of backend and AI engineers, and help grow the broader engineering organization. Set the engineering culture. Define what good engineering looks like, including code review, rituals and ways of working, so the team ships fast and with confidence. Shape the agentic roadmap. Partner with Product, Design and Research on the technical direction of agentic tax workflows, from early scoping through production. Stay deep in the work. Lead architecture discussions and design reviews, and write production code alongside your team. Remove friction. Resolve cross-team blockers and drive process improvements that scale. Grow domain depth. Build expertise in the tax ecosystem and the automation opportunities within it.

What you bring: 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally starting as a backend engineer and growing into a Staff, Lead or Manager roleA track record of shipping AI products 0-to-1 in production, such as LLM orchestration, RAG, agent frameworks or evaluation pipelines. You should be able to walk through what you built. Strong backend fundamentals, preferably in Python and AWSCurrent fluency with modern LLM APIs and agentic tooling, including coding agents The ability to lead autonomously, set direction without waiting on PMs, and communicate clearly Experience at a strong product or SaaS engineering organization, whether a startup, scaleup or big tech Formal management experience is a plus but not required

Compensation: $200K–$240K base, plus a 15–20% annual bonus (NYC)