Engineering Manager

About the company Our client is a fast-growing, AI-native enterprise software company rebuilding core financial infrastructure for mid-market and public companies. The platform combines AI agents, real-time accounting workflows, and rapid ERP migrations to replace manual finance operations at scale. Founded in 2024 by two entrepreneurs who previously built a $100M-revenue business, the company has raised more than $100M from leading technology investors. It is headquartered in New York City, has grown to approximately 90 employees, and plans to scale beyond 200 people. The role This is a hands-on Engineering Manager role reporting to the Head of Engineering. You will initially lead 20 to 30 remote engineers across Eastern Europe and South America while building the managerial systems for a rapidly growing engineering organization. You will define performance reviews, feedback loops, reporting structures, pod organization, hiring processes, and delivery metrics while continuing to make architecture decisions and ship code. What you will do • Lead and scale a distributed engineering organization of approximately 20 to 30 engineers. • Build performance-management, feedback, reporting, hiring, and team-structure systems from the ground up. • Partner with Product on roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution. • Make architecture decisions and contribute production code in a high-velocity environment. • Guide a major infrastructure migration from AWS Fargate toward Kubernetes. • Establish measurable engineering-health, quality, delivery, and team-performance metrics. • Hire, coach, and develop strong backend and full-stack engineers across multiple time zones. Requirements • 5 or more years of backend-heavy software engineering experience with progression from a strong individual contributor into hands-on management. • A record of building and scaling an engineering team through meaningful growth. • Strong Python experience and the ability to write and ship production code regularly. • Experience making architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, containers, databases, and distributed systems. • Experience with Kubernetes and AWS or a comparable cloud platform. • Familiarity with Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, GitHub Actions, React, and TypeScript or adjacent technologies. • Product-company ownership in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment. • High agency, low ego, and the ability to make fast decisions and pivot quickly. • Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent technical discipline. • Ability to work on-site five days per week at 7 World Trade Center in New York City or willingness to relocate. Location and compensation • On-site five days per week at 7 World Trade Center in New York City. • $250,000 to $375,000 base salary. • Approximately $100,000 to $120,000 in competitive equity value. • Visa sponsorship and existing transfers, including OPT, H-1B, and TN, may be considered.