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Engineering Manager

214k – 248kSan Francisco, CANew York, NYLos Angeles, CASeattle, WARemote
Summary

Engineering Manager leads a small team of engineers on high-impact payroll systems including money movement, tax calculations, and AI automation. Directly contributes to system design, development, and operations while growing engineers in an ownership-driven culture.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Take on complex, high-impact problems and drive them to resolution
  • Develop engineers into stronger owners across changing areas of the business
  • Step into the work when needed: designing a new system, managing a project, or fixing a bug
  • Work directly with product and operations, including defining product behavior, clarifying requirements, and working support tickets when needed
  • Improve systems and developer workflows over time
  • Use AI tools to increase speed, improve the quality of what we ship, and raise the bar for how the team builds

Requirements

  • Experience owning and delivering production systems end-to-end
  • Experience leading and developing engineers into stronger owners
  • Comfort switching between coaching and doing based on need
  • A track record of driving outcomes in ambiguous environments
  • Strong technical judgment and ability to simplify systems
  • Willingness to step into messy or operational problems
  • Excitement about how AI is changing how teams build

Our Stack

  • Python / Django for our API
  • React and TypeScript for our frontends
  • AWS and Terraform for our cloud infrastructure
  • Postgres for our database
  • Temporal for workflow orchestration
  • GitHub for CI/CD

Compensation

In San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle, the expected range is between $225,000 and $247,500. For all other locations, the expected range is between $214,000 and $235,400.

Skills
PythonDjangoReactTypeScriptAWSTerraformPostgresTemporalGitHubAI
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