• Lead and Mentor: Guide the team through organizational changes, challenges, and uncertainties, maintaining productivity and morale. Drive the team's success with hands-on coaching, guidance, and troubleshooting, as you are passionate about mentoring and developing engineering talent. • Execution and Delivery: Manage projects with shifting priorities and ensure the team adapts quickly to evolving organizational structures and processes to deliver high-quality work. • Strategy and Vision: Understand the organization’s objectives and direction, aligning the team’s priorities accordingly. You will advocate for changes that benefit the team and the broader organization. • Technical Guidance: Lead architecture discussions, review code, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to technical discussions to maintain a high bar for technical excellence. • Collaboration: Contribute to team and organizational goals, working with immediate team members and cross-functional stakeholders (10-20 individuals) to ensure alignment. • Direction: Provide clear direction to your team, translating high-level goals into actionable tasks, providing feedback, and ensuring everyone is aligned. You will have autonomy within your team's scope to decide how to allocate work and solve problems while aligning with the overall engineering strategy. • Hiring: Own the hiring process for the team, including interviewing, closing candidates, and ensuring a diverse and high-performing team structure.

Role Description We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed engineering organization while driving scalable, high-quality technology execution aligned with business and product priorities. This role blends people leadership, technical expertise, and business acumen, with a strong focus on customer outcomes, operational excellence, and thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies, including AI. The ideal candidate is both a leader and a builder — someone who can guide teams, influence architecture, and remain hands-on when needed. If you thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment and enjoy building both high-performing teams and scalable platforms, this role is for you. What You’ll Do - Strategic Engineering Leadership: - Establish scalable processes, standards, and operating rhythms to support a distributed, global team. - Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, tools, and delivery standards to improve quality, velocity, and reliability. - Partner with Product and executive leadership to align engineering priorities with business goals. - Team Leadership & Development: - Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering team across multiple geographies. - Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement. - Promote strong engineering practices with a focus on quality and customer impact. - Business & Operational Excellence: - Manage engineering budgets, including infrastructure and platform costs. - Ensure cost-effective decision-making while maintaining scalability and performance. - Collaborate cross-functionally to align technical investments with company objectives. - AI Innovation & Exploration: - Enable teams to adopt AI tools and contribute to AI-driven initiatives. - Explore emerging technologies through experimentation and low-risk validation. - Identify opportunities to integrate AI into internal workflows and customer-facing products. - Professional Standards: - Maintain compliance with company policies, practices, and procedures. - Communicate effectively across teams and leadership. - Manage shifting priorities and deadlines in a dynamic environment. - Review work for accuracy, completeness, and quality. - Perform additional duties as assigned. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, OR - Non-technical degree with relevant certifications, OR - Advanced degree (MBA, MA, etc.) with applicable experience. - 5–8 years of related experience, including: - 6+ years of software development experience (web/mobile, data-driven applications). - 3+ years leading and managing engineering teams. Requirements - Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager. - Experience leading remote, globally distributed teams. - Strong background in building scalable engineering processes and systems. - Experience managing budgets and optimizing infrastructure costs. - Familiarity with AI technologies and experimentation mindset. - Experience building and scaling SaaS products. - Strong experience with API development. - Advanced proficiency in Python and JavaScript (including TypeScript). - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure). - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows. - Experience with SSO implementation (preferred). - Familiarity with ReactJS and Node.js (a plus). Supervisory Responsibilities - Directly supervises and leads a team of approximately 3–15 engineers. - Responsible for performance management, coaching, and development. - Operates with limited supervision and high autonomy. Organizational Authority - Holds budgetary responsibility for a mid-size department. - Influences technical direction, investment decisions, and operational outcomes. - Decisions impact multiple teams and functional areas. Decision-Making & Judgment - Exercises significant discretion in interpreting policies and making operational decisions. - Solves complex problems where precedent may not exist. - Balances technical, business, and strategic considerations. Interpersonal Skills - Strong ability to influence, motivate, and lead across teams. - Skilled in conflict resolution and cross-functional collaboration. - Builds trust and drives alignment across multiple stakeholders. Physical Requirements - This is a sedentary role requiring sitting, reaching, talking, hearing, and visual acuity. - Occasional lifting of up to 25 lbs. Work Environment - Business-casual office environment. - Fast-paced and collaborative, with a potentially lively atmosphere. Travel - Minimal travel (up to 10%). - Occasional travel to Dallas, Orange County, or Boise offices may be required.

• Lead a high-performing mobile team: Manage a team of 4 to 7 iOS or Android engineers embedded in a cross-functional accounting squad. Nurture their growth, remove blockers, and create the conditions for them to do their best work. • Own your squad's success end-to-end: Work hand-in-hand with Product Managers and Designers to define strategy, shape the roadmap, and ship features that make a real difference for SMEs and accountants — from invoicing and bookkeeping to expense management and tax workflows. • Drive engineering excellence on mobile: Set the bar for code quality, architecture, and mobile best practices across your team — from Swift/Kotlin fundamentals to CI/CD and automated testing. • Build for scale: Hire top mobile talent, foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, and actively break silos between iOS, Android, and backend disciplines. • Champion your engineers: Give regular feedback, run 1:1s, facilitate growth reviews, and advocate for your team's visibility — internally and externally.

• Build and lead the Cloud Optimization Engineering function • Influence decisions across engineering teams regarding cost drivers • Act as a translator between engineering, finance, and leadership • Own the company’s approach to cloud cost visibility and optimization • Identify and drive opportunities to improve efficiency • Establish scalable frameworks for cost allocation and detection • Build and lead a team focused on cloud optimization and cost-aware systems