Engineering Manager
primisNew York (NY)
$200 K–$240 K
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Engineering Manager, AI Tax PlatformNYC · Toronto (hybrid) Our client is building the next generation of AI-powered software for tax and accounting professionals. The company was acquired by a global leader in professional information and software, so you get a startup team's speed and ownership with the data, distribution and resources of a major enterprise behind it. They're hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team building the AI and agentic systems at the core of their tax product. This is a builder-leader role, roughly 80% hands-on. You'll set the engineering bar for a team that starts at 4–5 engineers and grows to 10–12.
What you'll do:
- Build the team. Hire, mentor and develop a high-performing group of backend and AI engineers, and help grow the broader engineering organization.
- Set the engineering culture. Define what good engineering looks like, including code review, rituals and ways of working, so the team ships fast and with confidence.
- Shape the agentic roadmap. Partner with Product, Design and Research on the technical direction of agentic tax workflows, from early scoping through production.
- Stay deep in the work. Lead architecture discussions and design reviews, and write production code alongside your team.
- Remove friction. Resolve cross-team blockers and drive process improvements that scale.
- Grow domain depth. Build expertise in the tax ecosystem and the automation opportunities within it.
- What you bring 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally starting as a backend engineer and growing into a Staff, Lead or Manager role
- A track record of shipping AI products 0-to-1 in production, such as LLM orchestration, RAG, agent frameworks or evaluation pipelines. You should be able to walk through what you built.
- Strong backend fundamentals, preferably in Python and AWSCurrent fluency with modern LLM APIs and agentic tooling, including coding agents
- The ability to lead autonomously, set direction without waiting on PMs, and communicate clearly
- Experience at a strong product or SaaS engineering organization, whether a startup, scaleup or big tech
- Formal management experience is a plus but not required
Compensation: $200K–$240K base, plus a 15–20% annual bonus (NYC)
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