Sr. Software Engineering Manager

The role

Lead a team of engineers and the AI agents they work with to ship products that help small business owners start, run, and grow their businesses. Partner with product, design, and marketing to decide what to build, then own delivery from idea to production to ongoing maintenance.

What you will do

• Own whether your team's work moves the business metrics it is tied to
• Set the roadmap with your PM and say no to work that won't move the numbers
• Hire engineers, give direct and frequent feedback, and act quickly on performance issues
• Develop senior engineers and junior managers into leaders
• Review designs and code, ship code when it unblocks the team, and run incident reviews
• Ship tested, observable code that releases safely, with agents and automation carrying more of the load
• Run experiments in LaunchDarkly and measure AI features with evals and customer feedback
• Build reusable patterns for working with agents that other teams adopt
• Use AI tools and coding agents in your daily work and set the standard for your team's AI use
• Track your team's AI adoption, impact, and spend

Required qualifications

• 3+ years leading and growing high-performing engineering teams that ship web-based products, including managing other managers
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with recent hands-on time in a modern web stack
• Daily, hands-on fluency with agentic engineering workflows and tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex
• Proof you have used AI and automation to measurably improve a team's delivery speed or quality
• A record of tying your team's work to business results, with the metrics to show it
• A record of building teams people want to work on again, including engineers grown into leaders
• Clear, concise writing

Nice to have

• Experience shipping LLM-powered products, agents, or evaluation frameworks
• Experience building internal tooling that helps engineers and agents work together
• Experience at a high-growth startup or on a lean, small-team setup
• Fintech, compliance, or small business domain experience
• Experience building shared AI context for a team: skills, MCP servers, and agent instructions
• Experience evaluating and rolling out new AI tools as they emerge

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance
• Parental and military leave
• Employee assistance program
• 401k with match
• Annual bonus
• Pet insurance
• RSUs (equity)
• 10 paid holidays
• Paid parking for in-office employees
• Weekly All Hands meeting and social events

Before you apply

• Paid parking applies to in-office employees only

About the company

ZenBusiness helps people start, run, and grow their own businesses by keeping the process simple and avoiding common pitfalls like forms, taxes, and ongoing state compliance. It is a remote company with a team spread across the United States.