JavaScript · React · Node.js · SQL · MongoDB
ABOUT THE ROLE
Lead a core engineering team building AI-powered products that turn complex tax documents into reliable structured data. This hands-on player-coach role combines team leadership with active technical contribution as the team grows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Manage and develop a team of senior and staff-level engineers while contributing code, reviewing designs, and debugging challenging problems.
- Ship customer-facing, evaluation-driven AI products for processing unstructured tax documents.
- Coach engineers on technical and product judgment, provide direct feedback, and help them grow into larger roles.
- Lead hiring, onboarding, and team growth as the engineering organization scales.
- Work with tax professionals 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 individual-contributor work and formal engineering management experience.
- Experience managing a team of at least five engineers and leading senior-level talent.
- Current hands-on production coding experience, with a background in design reviews, code reviews, and debugging.
- Backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-leaning full-stack expertise.
- Experience building or leading external, customer-facing products and hiring or scaling engineering teams.
- Exposure to AI or machine learning systems, such as document AI, retrieval-based systems, agentic systems, or evaluation-driven development.
- Python, TypeScript, and cloud infrast