Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager who will lead and grow engineering teams while staying hands-on with system design, architecture, and code. The role focuses on developing people, delivering financial data and accounting products, and building scalable management practices.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow engineering teams while remaining engaged in code and system design.
- Lead development of data ingestion, transformation, and lineage infrastructure for traceable financial data.
- Own delivery of flexible financial reporting, including drill-down from projections to individual transactions.
- Guide development of accounting automation that structures messy financial data and reduces manual work.
- Lead teams building accounting workflows with dependency management, automation, AI-native experiences, and polished user experiences.
- Develop engineers, build trust, and make decisions about people and priorities.
- Establish management processes, rituals, and engineering standards appropriate for the company’s growth stage.
- Support hiring, performance management, and team output.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building software, including meaningful hands-on engineering experience.
- 2+ years of direct engineering management experience with ownership of hiring, performance, and team output.
- Ability to work deeply on system design, code reviews, and architecture decisions.
- Strong motivation, agency, and commitment to high-quality work.
- Interest in learning complex domains and tackling ambitious goals.
- Ability to balance organizational scaling with pragmatic process.
- In-person work in San Francisco.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience managing teams in complex technical domains.
- Fintech or accounting-related experience.
- Experience founding a business, building products from scratch, or joining as an early engineering hire and growing into management.
- Strong hiring track record.
Compensation
- Estimated base salary: $225,000–$300,000.
- Generous equity package.
Skills
System Design, Code Review, Software Architecture, Data Ingestion, Data Transformation, Data Lineage, Financial Reporting, Accounting Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Dependency Management, Hiring, Performance Management
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