Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead an engineering team responsible for customer-facing products or backend systems. You will set direction for execution, technical decisions, hiring, and team development while partnering with Product and Design.

What you will do

• Lead an engineering team responsible for customer-facing product or systems and platforms.
• Set direction across execution, technical decisions, hiring, and team development.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and accounting experts.
• Drive complex projects from early thinking through launch and iteration.
• Develop a team that includes senior and Staff-level engineers.
• Hire great engineers and build a team that moves quickly.
• Stay close to the technical work and help shape the engineering organization.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, ideally at a high-growth startup or technology company.
• Experience leading teams through a period of rapid growth.
• Strong background as a software engineer.
• Experience leading a sizeable team that includes senior and Staff-level engineers.
• Track record of developing experienced engineers.
• Comfortable getting into the codebase, debugging issues, and reviewing architecture.
• Strong technical and product judgment.
• Actively learning how AI is changing software development.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling or splitting engineering teams during periods of rapid growth.
• Experience leading both product-facing and platform-oriented engineering teams.
• Recent hands-on experience with Kotlin, Java, or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, reliability, and modern software development practices.
• Experience building complex B2B or enterprise software where reliability, security, and scale matter.
• Background in fintech, ERP, accounting software, or other data-intensive products.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Meaningful equity
• Benefits designed to support health, wellbeing, time away from work, family, and long-term financial goals
• Team meals, events, and company gatherings

About the company

Rillet is an Agentic ERP for modern finance teams that helps automate closing the books, recognizing revenue, and reporting. The company has raised more than $200M and is valued at $1B.