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Why Numeric Every business runs on accounting, but the systems underneath it were built for a different era. Today’s ERPs don’t store a company’s financial data. They store a diluted copy of it. Every contract, lease, and invoice gets flattened into a journal entry, and the context that made it meaningful is thrown away. That’s why accounting teams spend every month re-checking numbers, stitching together spreadsheets, and waiting on engineering, and why AI struggles to do real accounting work. Accounting doesn’t have a reporting problem. It has a data problem. Enter Numeric: the data platform finance teams run on. We started with the month-end close, where the data problem hurts most, and hundreds of finance teams now run their close on Numeric. That work led us to rebuild the system of record itself. In September 2026 we launched the Financial Data Platform (FDP), a platform built for the agent era. Instead of a journal entry, the real business object enters the system and the accounting is derived from it. Every number is traceable to its source, reporting works on any dimension, and accountants and AI agents finally have enough context to work together. While others bolted AI features onto the old data model, we built a new one. We have a growing base of customers who love our product, including Anthropic, Plaid, Brex, Betterment, Wealthfront, and Asana. We’ve raised $89M from top-tier investors including IVP, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, and 8VC, along with founders and executives from Ramp, Segment, and other category-defining companies. We’re hybrid but in-office first, with teams in New York, San Francisco, and London, and we just shipped the product that will define our next decade. There’s never been a better time to join. The Role We're hiring our first dedicated Engineering Manager to help lead our engineering teams in SF. You'll manage and grow a team of engineers while staying close enough to the code and the system design to earn the trust of the people you lead. We're not looking for someone who manages from a distance — we're looking for someone who's done the work, still wants to be in the details when it matters, and gets energy from making other engineers better. What you might work on - Data platform: Lead the team building the ingestion, transformation, and lineage infrastructure that gives accountants traceable, source-connected access to their financial data at any level of detail. - Reporting engine: Own delivery of the experience for flexibly defining, composing, and drilling into structured financial reports, from high-level projections down to individual transactions. - Accounting automation: Guide the team developing the core engine that brings structure to messy financial data, automating large swaths of manual work and turning accountants into engineers. - Workflow, AI, and user experience: Lead a team building complex, cyclical accounting workflows with dependency management, automation, and AI-native experiences — all wrapped in a product we take pride in making delightful to use. You might be a fit if… - You've managed engineers before and you genuinely enjoy it. You take pride in developing people, building trust on teams, and making hard calls on people and priorities. - You still want to be technical. You can go deep on system design, review code and architecture decisions, and earn credibility with your team by being a good collaborator. - You find learning a new, complex domain to be an exciting challenge - You combine a commitment to high quality work with a desire to win and tackle ambitious goals - You want to help build the management function here: process, rituals, and bar-setting. You can balance scaling with pragmatism about the right amount of process for the stage of growth. - You care about good abstractions and about building good product. What you need - 6+ years of experience building software, including meaningful time as a hands-on engineer - 2+ years directly managing engineers, with real ownership of hiring, performance, and team output - High motivation and agency Bonus points for… - Experience managing teams in complex, technical domains - Fintech or accounting-adjacent/fintech experience - Experience founding a business, building products from scratch, or being an early engineering hire who grew into management - A track record in hiring This role is hybrid in San Francisco, in-office first. We believe the best company is the one with the best ICs, and we've built a culture to maximize great work — as an EM here, your job is to protect and amplify that, not manage around it. We believe great product & engineering come from a desire to win, a deep care for the craft, and a pragmatism in shipping for overall impact. We strongly believe we will only be successful if everyone on the team — managers included — is anchored in our core principles: - Own the Outcome: We own our results. We typically hire builders and give them large mandates with high trust. As a manager, you're responsible not just for your team's code, but for ensuring your team is solving the end problems of the users. - Brick by Brick: To win, our team needs to show up and execute in each domain every day. - Love the Game: We focus on the craft and a deep sense of giving a f*ck. We're building a company full of people who are equally engaged and motivated — that starts with how you lead. - Earn the Right: Our ability to rethink how things are done depends on the trust and reputation we build by shipping quality products and improving the lives of our users. - SALY: We refuse to accept "Same As Last Year." We bring fresh eyes to a stagnated and underserved domain, including in how we build and run engineering teams. Read some of our thoughts on engineering and company-building here. numeric.substack.com Estimated Base Salary: $225,000-300,000 plus a generous equity package

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What you might work on
Data platform: Lead the team building the ingestion, transformation, and lineage infrastructure that gives accountants traceable, source-connected access to their financial data at any level of detail.
Reporting engine: Own delivery of the experience for flexibly defining, composing, and drilling into structured financial reports, from high-level projections down to individual transactions.
Accounting automation: Guide the team developing the core engine that brings structure to messy financial data, automating large swaths of manual work and turning accountants into engineers.
You might be a fit if…
You've managed engineers before and you genuinely enjoy it. You take pride in developing people, building trust on teams, and making hard calls on people and priorities.
You still want to be technical. You can go deep on system design, review code and architecture decisions, and earn credibility with your team by being a good collaborator.
You find learning a new, complex domain to be an exciting challenge
You combine a commitment to high quality work with a desire to win and tackle ambitious goals
You want to help build the management function here: process, rituals, and bar-setting. You can balance scaling with pragmatism about the right amount of process for the stage of growth.
You care about good abstractions and about building good product.
What you need
6+ years of experience building software, including meaningful time as a hands-on engineer
2+ years directly managing engineers, with real ownership of hiring, performance, and team output
High motivation and agency
Experience managing teams in complex, technical domains
Fintech or accounting-adjacent/fintech experience
Experience founding a business, building products from scratch, or being an early engineering hire who grew into management
A track record in hiring
This role is hybrid in San Francisco, in-office first.
We strongly believe we will only be successful if everyone on the team — managers included — is anchored in our core principles:
Brick by Brick: To win, our team needs to show up and execute in each domain every day.
Love the Game: We focus on the craft and a deep sense of giving a f*ck. We're building a company full of people who are equally engaged and motivated — that starts with how you lead.

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