AI · tax documents
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