Engineering Manager, Agent Builder

The role

You will lead the Agent Builder team to develop the Agentic Automation Platform Alwin. You will own the technical direction of the agent lifecycle, including knowledge management, definition, testing, and governance.

What you will do

• Lead through outcomes and set clear goals for the team
• Hire, grow and retain senior engineers in New York
• Own the technical direction of Agent Builder end-to-end
• Build the context layer that grounds agents in firm methodology
• Decide abstraction levels and guardrails for builders
• Design lifecycle processes including versioning, approvals, and rollout
• Make evaluation, observability and auditability part of the product
• Partner with Agent Runtime, Evals, Document Intelligence, Product, Design and audit methodology experts
• Work with Forward Deployed Engineers, Solution Architects and GTM teams to turn enterprise feedback into platform capabilities
• Shape how DataSnipper engineering uses AI

Required qualifications

• 3+ years leading engineering teams
• 5+ years as a software engineer
• Empowerment style of leadership
• Track record of hiring and building high-performing teams
• Hands-on experience with agentic or LLM systems in production
• Experience with context engineering and retrieval
• Experience building platform products with a lifecycle
• Strong fundamentals in software architecture, distributed systems, APIs and cloud-native development
• Strong product aptitude
• Hands-on fluency with AI coding tools and agentic harnesses
• Comfortable leading across time zones and offices
• Clear written communication

Nice to have

• Knowledge management or enterprise search
• Knowledge graphs or structured representations of policies, procedures and rules
• Experience building low-code / configuration products, workflow designers, rule engines or DSLs
• Agent evaluation in practice
• Experience in regulated domains (audit, financial services, healthcare or similar)
• Governance at scale
• Python, Azure and observability tooling
• Domain experience in audit methodology, accounting or fintech

Benefits

• Equity (Stock Appreciation Rights)
• Flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 401K match
• Paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored lunch
• Access to continuous learning and development initiatives
• Engage with a vibrant international team
• Access to the mental health and wellness platform
• Multiple social activities for team building

Before you apply

• Recruitment Screen (30 minutes, online)
• Hiring Manager Interview (30 minutes, online)
• System design interview (60 minutes, online)
• Product Insight Discussion (60 minutes, on-site)
• Final Interview (30 minutes, online)

About the company

DataSnipper builds AI solutions that empower audit and finance professionals. The platform is used by more than 600,000 professionals across 3,000+ organizations in 175 countries.