Engineering Manager, Tax

Manage and grow the team. Coach engineers, run real 1:1s, set the bar, hire when it requires it, and performance manage when it doesn't. - Own the tax engine roadmap with your PM and tax leads. Sequence what gets built and when, decide what "done" means in partnership with the tax experts, and translate strategic priorities (new jurisdictions, new APIs, AI lab partner asks) into tractable engineering work. - Build the system that builds the engine. Your team owns the agent tooling, the test infrastructure, and the confidence metrics that let the engine grow at speed without sacrificing accuracy. Make the loop faster every cycle. - Work in the trenches with the tax experts. They've been doing this for decades. They're your closest collaborators and your toughest users. They build and verify coverage, own what "correct" means, and are on the hook when something isn't right. Spend real time with them, understand what it actually takes to file across federal and state jurisdictions, and translate that depth into the systems your team builds. - Operate cleanly. Cycle planning, change management, on-call, incident response, and the operating cadences that make execution legible across the org. ## What we're looking for

Engineering manager for 2+ years, leading teams of 5+. You've coached engineers, set the bar on a team, and grown people on it. You can name the people you've developed and describe how. - Manager-first. You can't get by here on being the strongest IC in the room. The value you deliver is through the team. If your default is to grab the keyboard when things get hard, this isn't the role. - Hands-on technical history in complex domains. Before you managed, you shipped real systems where correctness, edge cases, and domain depth mattered. You can talk credibly about architecture with the engineers on your team and earn their trust on the technical merits. - Demonstrated ability to bridge engineering and a non-engineering domain. Engineers and tax experts (or doctors, or lawyers, or any deep domain expert) think wildly differently. You've worked closely with non-engineering experts before, taken their judgment seriously, and built shared language and shared artifacts that let both sides do their best work. We've watched smart people struggle here, and this is the part of the job we look at hardest. - Operational excellence in your blood. You can describe the metrics your last team ran by, what was broken about them when you got there, and what specifically you did to move them. - Lived experience holding people accountable. You've built teams up by setting a real bar and managed people out when they didn't hold it. You can describe the timeline of the last person you managed out and what you learned. - AI-native fluency. AI tooling is woven into how you work and how your team ships, and you have a clear point of view on where it helps and where it creates noise. - Bonus: experience building or leading a rules engine, calculation engine, or comparable system. Tax, payroll, billing, pricing, underwriting, claims adjudication, compliance, benefits. Anywhere correctness is non-negotiable, the rules come from a domain outside engineering, and the system has to compose hundreds or thousands of those rules into an answer you can defend. - Bonus: tax industry experience. Direct work on a tax engine or in tax technology is a strong plus, but not required. ## What we offer

The chance to lead the team that owns one of the most consequential pieces of IP at Aiwyn, in an industry that's about to change permanently. - A direct, reflective leadership team that actively welcomes challenge and debate. - Real autonomy. Freedom to shape your team, your process, and your bar. - Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.