Senior Engineering Manager (Document AI)

An AI company that turns complex tax documents into dependable structured data for large accounting firms is hiring a hands-on engineering manager. The leader will run one of the core engineering teams, report to the company’s co-founder and CTO, and keep writing code while the team grows substantially over the next year. The culture is fast, practical and expects everyone, leaders included, to ship.

Responsibilities

• Manage a group of senior, staff and principal engineers while remaining an active contributor who codes, reviews designs and debugs hard problems every week
• Ship customer-facing AI products guided by evaluation results, converting unstructured tax paperwork into reliable data for enterprise clients
• Develop engineers through candid feedback and by coaching them on both engineering and product decisions, and cultivate future leaders
• Own hiring, onboarding and growth as the group expands, building an organization with high talent density
• Tie engineering choices to business outcomes by working with tax specialists and customer-facing teams

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in software engineering, reaching staff level as an individual contributor before moving into management where possible
• Formal management experience with five or more direct reports at a well-regarded product company
• Still writes production code frequently and reviews designs and pull requests
• Backend depth, or a full-stack profile leaning backend
• Track record building customer-facing products and scaling teams; exposure to ML systems, document AI or eval-driven development, Python and TypeScript are pluses

On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visa transfers considered.