Farsight · 1 month ago
Engineering Manager
New York City, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $220K/yr
8+ years expFarsight is an agentic AI platform for financial services, focused on automating workflows for investment banks and private equity firms. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to build and maintain the core platform, ensuring alignment between technical and product priorities while fostering team development and mentoring.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Financial ServicesSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead a small, high-performing team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining the core platform
Scope projects, set clear milestones, and ensure technical and product priorities stay aligned
Work closely with the CTO, GTM team, and product team to plan work, track progress, and remove roadblocks
Review designs and code, guide architectural discussions, and help the team make thoughtful trade-offs between speed and quality
Focus heavily on team development - mentoring engineers, creating clear expectations, and giving feedback that helps them grow
Shape and refine lightweight processes that let the team move quickly without sacrificing reliability
Engage in hands-on leadership, comfortable diving into technical conversations and guiding engineers through complex decisions
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams or managing multiple projects
Strong technical background in Python and cloud infrastructure, capable of understanding and evaluating architectural trade-offs
Proven ability to scope projects, define deliverables, set realistic timelines, and drive teams to execution
Experience leading technical design discussions and ensuring scalable, maintainable systems
Deep understanding of software architecture principles (microservices, event-driven systems, distributed design)
Experience implementing engineering processes - sprint planning, retrospectives, performance reviews, documentation standards, etc
Track record of mentoring engineers, providing career development feedback, and growing technical talent
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business perspectives
Strong judgment and prioritization skills - able to balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments and setting structure where needed
Passion for building world-class AI products and integrating emerging technologies into enterprise systems
Preferred
Prior experience as a Tech Lead or other engineering leadership role at an early-stage startup or high-scale tech company
Experience building and managing teams of 5–15 engineers across multiple product or platform areas
Demonstrated ability to establish engineering culture and best practices (code review standards, testing frameworks, branching strategy, etc.)
Previous experience with designing and building career ladders, employee incentives, and other organizational processes
Previous success designing hiring processes, hiring and onboarding top engineering talent
Benefits
Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
Unlimited PTO
Company
Farsight
Farsight is an AI company that builds workflow automation tools for financial and insurance data processing.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$16MKey Investors
SignalFireIntel Ignite
2025-06-11Series A· $16M
2024-04-02Non Equity Assistance
Leadership Team
Samir Dutta
Co-Founder and CEO
Kunal Tangri
Co-Founder
Recent News
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