Engineering Manager

The Engineering Manager leads a team building either customer-facing finance products or the platforms and systems behind them. They set technical and execution direction, develop engineers, and partner with Product and Design while staying involved in technical decisions.
* Permanent* Hybrid
* 4+ years### Skills and expertise

Software engineering

Technical architecture

Kotlin Java Type Script CI/CDObservability

Reliability### Key responsibilities
* Lead an engineering team building customer-facing products or the systems and platforms behind them.
* Set direction for technical decisions, execution, hiring, and team development.
* Partner with Product, Design, and accounting experts to deliver projects from planning through launch.## How this job compares

Compared with 203 open manager engineering jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay:
This job pays $230K to $300K a year. The 113 open manager engineering jobs that publish US pay start at $199K on average, so this job starts about 16% higher.

Similar open jobs:
We Love AI Jobs lists 203 open manager engineering jobs at 92 companies.

Remote work:
This job is hybrid. 31 of the 203 manager engineering jobs (15%) are remote.

AI in this role:
Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The team builds Rillet’s finance platform, described as an AI-native ERP, and the manager is expected to consider how AI tools affect software development. The role focuses on engineering leadership and product systems rather than AI model development.## Full description

What We DoRillet serves accounting and finance teams, the financial brains of their companies. Our job is to help them run the numbers with impossible speed, accuracy, and insight.

Rillet is the Agentic ERP built for modern finance teams. We help companies automate the most critical parts of finance, from closing the books and recognizing revenue to consolidating entities and reporting to investors. More than 600 companies run on Rillet, including Mercor, Scribe, and Function Health, and we partner with leading accounting firms including EY and KPMG.We’re building in one of the largest software markets in the world, with the momentum to match.

Rillet has raised more than $200M, is valued at $1B, and is backed by Sequoia, a16z, ICONIQ, Bain Capital Ventures, Oak HC/FT, and other leading investors. We’re using that backing to build the financial infrastructure for the next generation of companies and help every business run its numbers at the speed of AI.Who We Are Rillet’s pace is not for everyone.

Intelligence is table stakes. To succeed here, you need extreme speed, agency, and flexibility.

The people who thrive at Rillet do not wait for assignments. They internalize the mission, design a strategy, and bring back results that are better, faster, and more creative than a manager could have asked for.

Our work revolves around our customers. The people who succeed here are energized by delivering what matters most, even when it was not part of the original plan.

Rillet is built on deep accounting expertise, and it takes people from many disciplines to build a category-defining company. You do not need to be an accountant to thrive here. You do need to care deeply about the problems we solve and the impact our customers can create. Together, we combine the precision of accounting with the speed, creativity, and ambition of AI-native software to power the financial core of the world’s fastest-growing companies while redefining what finance teams should expect from their software.

Who We Need Rillet is building a new financial system for modern companies, and we’re looking for Engineering Managers to help scale both the product and the team.

Depending on your background, you could…