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.