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.