Senior Engineering Manager

Company: Confidential - AI tax and accounting software company
Location: San Francisco, CA (downtown office, 5 days per week)
Compensation: $415,000 - $450,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfer); TN accepted

About the Company

An AI company automating how tax and accounting firms process complex documents, now part of a major global information-services company and used daily by the largest US accounting firms.

The Role

Our client is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager (10+ years) as a hands-on player-coach leading one of its core engineering teams. You will manage 4-7 senior, staff and principal engineers, scaling to 10-12 over the next year, while contributing directly to the codebase, and report to the CTO and co-founder. Everyone ships here, including leadership.

What You Will Do

• Manage 4-7 staff- and principal-level engineers (growing to 10-12) while writing code, reviewing designs and debugging hard problems every week.
• Ship customer-facing, eval-driven AI products that turn unstructured tax documents into reliable structured data.
• Develop engineers through direct feedback and coaching, and grow future leaders.
• Own hiring, onboarding and team growth to build a high-talent-density org.
• Connect engineering decisions to business outcomes with tax professionals and customer-facing teams.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including managing senior engineers
• Active hands-on technical contribution as a manager
• Experience shipping AI/ML or document-AI products
• Experience hiring and scaling teams
• Ability to work in the San Francisco office 5 days a week

Tech Stack

Python, TypeScript, cloud infrastructure, document AI, agentic systems, retrieval-based systems