Director Of Software Engineering

Role description: This role is with one of our portfolio companies.

We are hiring a Founding Engineer/Leader for one of our early-stage portfolio companies. This is not a typical engineering leadership role; you will be the first engineering hire. You will own the architecture, make irreversible technical decisions, and ship production systems in a domain where accuracy and compliance are essential.

In this role, you will collaborate directly with the founder to build AI agents that automate complex, multi-system finance workflows. This position focuses less on a feature roadmap and more on the challenge of making these agents effectively handle edge cases that can stump humans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture & Technical Direction Design the end-to-end system, including agent orchestration, multi-system integrations (ERP, banking, procurement, email), data pipelines, and compliance guardrails. Your decisions will be the foundation upon which the company builds.
• Agentic AI Systems Build, deploy, and iterate on production-grade AI agents capable of autonomous multi-step task execution, exception handling, and self-correction not demos, not prototypes.
• Ensure that auditability, data residency, and segregation of duties are integrated from day one. Given the regulated nature of this domain, correctness is a product requirement.
• Team Building Hire and retain a 58 person engineering team as the company scales. You set the bar on engineering culture, code quality, and technical hiring standards.
• Have experience with fast-paced, rapidly iterating, design-forward, product-focused companies.
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  Exhibit a roll-up-your-sleeves entrepreneurial spirit, be a team player, and have a track record of leading and mentoring employees.

What Were Looking For:

Must-Haves

• BS/MS/Phd degree in engineering/technology.
• 814 years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a hands-on technical leadership role (led a team, owned architecture, drove delivery).
• AI-Native Builder Has designed and shipped production agentic or multi-step AI systems.
• Full-Stack Systems Thinking Comfortable across the stack: backend services, data engineering, API integrations, and infrastructure. Able to dive deep as needed.
• Prior experience building on top of ERP or enterprise SaaS APIs. Understands the pain of working with legacy systems, inconsistent schemas, and enterprise IT constraints.
• Worked at an AI-native company or a high-velocity startup not just an AI feature inside a large org.

Strong Differentiators

• Prior experience as a founding engineer or in an early-stage startup (0?1 journey).
• Background in fintech, ERP automation, or enterprise workflow automation
• Experience with LLM fine-tuning, RAG architectures, or agent frameworks (such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent)
• Exposure to finance and accountingworkflows AP, AR, reconciliation, month-end close
• Has hired and managed engineers before

Note: We will check the fitment for multiple roles across our portfolios.