Senior Engineering Manager
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Lead a core engineering team building AI-powered products that transform complex tax documents into reliable structured data. This hands-on player-coach role combines people leadership with regular technical contributions as the team grows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Manage and develop a team of senior, staff, and principal engineers, with plans to grow the team over the coming year.
- Write and review production code, assess designs, and debug challenging technical problems alongside the team.
- Ship customer-facing, evaluation-driven AI products for extracting structured information from unstructured tax documents.
- Coach engineers on technical and product judgment, provide direct feedback, and support their career growth.
- Own hiring and onboarding while building a high-performing engineering team.
- Work with tax professionals and customer-facing partners to connect engineering decisions to customer needs 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 five or more engineers, ideally including staff- and principal-level engineers.
- Current hands-on coding experience, with a track record of writing production software, reviewing designs and pull requests, and debugging complex issues.
- Backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-leaning full-stack expertise.
- Experience building or leading external, customer-facing products and scaling engineering teams.
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, giving direct feedback, addressing performance concerns, and developing engineers into larger roles.
- Exposure to AI or machine learning systems, such as document AI, retrieval-based systems, agentic systems, or evaluation-driven development; Python, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure experience are useful.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $415,000 to $450,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.