About the Company
Our client is a well-funded, venture-backed startup (founded 2024) building an AI-native platform for the finance and accounting space, automating workflows end to end so finance teams move faster and carry less risk. The company has raised significant capital from top-tier investors, serves customers from mid-market businesses to publicly listed enterprises, and is scaling quickly from roughly 70 people toward 200+.
Founded 2024 · ~70 people · Industry: Fintech, AI, Enterprise Software
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You would report to the Head of Engineering, manage a distributed team of 20 to 30 engineers across time zones, and work on-site in New York. It is a greenfield opportunity to build the managerial layer from scratch while staying deeply technical and shipping code daily.
What you will be doing
- Designing and rolling out core engineering processes from scratch: performance reviews, feedback loops, reporting structures, and pod organization
- Helping drive a major infrastructure migration (AWS to Kubernetes) alongside the SRE team
- Making architectural decisions and writing code daily in a multiple-deploys-per-day environment
- Partnering with Product on roadmap and prioritization while unblocking engineers and delivering major features
Tech stack: Python, Django, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS Fargate, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
Requirements
- 5+ years in backend-heavy software engineering, with a track record moving from senior IC (staff/principal) into hands-on engineering management
- Proven experience building and scaling an engineering team from the ground up, and eagerness to lead and grow a team of roughly 25 engineers while defining its performance metrics
- Genuinely hands-on: you still write and ship code daily and want to keep doing so
- Strong backend engineer with deep Python proficiency
- BS in Computer Science or an equivalent technical degree
- Thrive in fast-paced, low-structure environments; high agency, low ego, and quick, decisive judgment
- Comfortable managing a distributed team of 20 to 30 engineers across multiple time zones
- Able to work on-site in New York City five days a week
Nice to Haves
- Background at a platform-as-a-service or fintech company
- Hands-on experience with system architecture and infrastructure migrations (Kubernetes, AWS)
- Frontend experience with React/TypeScript
Why Join
- Join a fast-scaling, well-capitalized team backed by leading investors
- Build the entire engineering management layer from scratch and shape how the org grows
- Stay technical: this is a leadership role for someone who still loves to code and ship
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity
Details
- Location: New York, NY
- Work policy: On-site, 5 days/week
- Compensation: $250K–$375K + equity
- Visa sponsorship: Open to transfers and new sponsorships
- Employment type: Full-time