Senior Engineering Manager
True Talent Solutions Partners San Francisco, California, United States · $415K–$450K/yr
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About the role
Lead a core engineering team in building customer-facing AI products for tax document processing while remaining hands-on with the codebase. Manage team growth, provide technical mentorship, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive product decisions.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 10 to 20 years of software engineering experience with a strong background in backend infrastructure and team leadership. Candidates should have experience scaling engineering teams and working with AI or machine learning systems.
Benefits
Full description
About the Role
Lead a core engineering team building customer-facing AI products for tax document processing. This hands-on player-coach role combines technical contribution, team development, and product decisions that help tax professionals turn complex documents into structured data.
What You'll Do
- Manage and grow a team of 4 to 7 senior, staff, and principal engineers, with plans to scale the team.
- Stay active in the codebase by writing production software, reviewing designs, and debugging challenging technical problems.
- Ship and improve AI products using evaluation-driven practices to produce reliable results from unstructured tax documents.
- Coach engineers through direct feedback, support their technical and product judgment, and help them grow into broader roles.
- Lead hiring and onboarding, and partner with tax professionals and customer-facing teams on product and engineering decisions.
What We're Looking For
- 10 to 20 years of software engineering experience, including individual contributor work and formal engineering leadership.
- Experience managing a team of engineers while remaining a hands-on technical contributor.
- Background building or leading external, customer-facing products at product-focused technology companies.
- Strong backend, backend infrastructure, or backend-leaning full-stack skills.
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and scaling teams, ideally with staff- and principal-level engineers.
- 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
Annual salary: $415,000 to $450,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
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