About the Role

Lead a core engineering team building AI-powered products that transform complex tax documents into reliable structured data. This hands-on player-coach role combines technical contribution, team development, and product decisions in a growing financial software business.

What You'll Do

Manage and grow a team of senior, staff, and principal engineers while contributing code, reviewing designs, and debugging complex problems.

Ship customer-facing, evaluation-driven AI products for document processing and structured data extraction.

Coach engineers through direct feedback, support their technical and product judgment, and help them grow into broader roles.

Lead hiring, onboarding, and team development as the organization scales.

Partner with domain experts and customer-facing teams to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes.

What We're Looking For

10 or more years of software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on individual contributor work and formal engineering management.

Experience managing a team of at least five engineers, ideally including staff- or principal-level engineers, and building or scaling customer-facing products.

Backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-oriented full-stack expertise, with current production coding and technical review experience.

Strong coaching, feedback, performance management, hiring, and team-building skills.

Exposure to AI or machine learning systems, such as document AI, retrieval-based systems, agentic systems, or evaluation-driven development.

Python, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure experience are useful.

Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $415,000 to $450,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.