IT & Software

Software Engineering Manager - Hands-On & Product-Focused

Tipalti

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this hands-on Engineering Manager role, you will lead a small, autonomous team to build the Close product from discovery to delivery, using AI to automate reconciliation tasks. You stay hands-on in code and AI workflows while shaping the product direction and engaging with customers. You’ll influence how a lean, AI-native team operates and ships in small, impactful increments. This is a unique opportunity to tackle end-of-month closing challenges at scale and across US and European operations.

Responsibilities
  • Lead and grow a two-engineer team, staying hands-on while guiding direction, mentoring, and removing blockers
  • Own a substantial portion of the Close product end-to-end from discovery to delivery
  • Engage directly with customers and accountants, running discovery, demos, and translating feedback into features
  • Contribute to codebase and AI workflows, shipping functional AI-driven solutions
  • Investigate accounting processes (payroll, invoices, expenses, reconciliation) across regions to identify AI-driven improvements
  • Report progress to stakeholders in a minimally structured environment
  • Define operating model for a small, autonomous, AI-native team that could be scaled internally
Key requirements
  • Hands-on engineering ability with code and AI workflows
  • People-management or team-leadership experience with coaching and growth of two engineers
  • Extreme autonomy with ability to make decisions with incomplete information
  • Product instincts and comfort in talking to customers, running discovery, and live demos
  • Explicit enthusiasm for AI as a core part of building and work, not just a tool
  • Willingness to delve into accounting topics (payroll, reconciliation, regional differences)
  • Bias to ship with incremental delivery and public iteration
  • Customer-facing communication
  • Autonomy and decision-making under uncertainty
  • Coaching and mentorship
  • Hands-on software engineering
  • AI workflow implementation and tooling
  • Experience shipping products with AI components

Reference: WJ-747_30142323

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