Technical Engineering Manager_Core AI

FloQast; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

FloQast is hiring an AI Engineering Manager on the Core AI team in India to lead a growing group of software and AI engineers building production AI systems for our accounting automation platform.

You will drive technical direction, talent development, and cross-functional collaboration to scale our AI footprint, with a focus on governance, model routing, vector search, and robust DevOps practices in a B2B SaaS setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering management experience or equivalent.
• 5+ years as individual contributor in software/backend
• Production AI experience with LLMs, RAG, and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop AI software engineers and teams.
• Guide architecture and delivery of scalable production AI products.
• Recruit and grow AI engineering talent in India.
• Collaborate with product, QA, architecture, and security teams.
• Foster lean software development, Agile, and robust LLMOps/DevOps practices.
• Ensure compliant, observable AI products integrating with accounting systems and APIs.

Skills

Team Leadership

Python

Cloud-Native

LLMOps

RAG

Agile methodologies

Communication

Distributed teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

MongoDB

Express

React

Node.js

Job description

As an AI Engineering Manager on our Core AI team in India, you will be a cornerstone of FloQast's AI transformation and a key leader in our growing global engineering organization. You will manage and scale a team of high-performing software and AI engineers responsible for architecting and deploying production AI systems—powering our accounting automation platform and bringing our vision of an AI accountant teammate to life.

This role requires a balance between people leadership, operational excellence, and technical leadership in modern AI paradigms. You will partner with global engineering leadership, product management, and architecture teams to establish technical standards for agentic workflows, model context protocols (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLMOps across FloQast. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will play a critical role in expanding FloQast’s AI footprint by recruiting, mentoring, and developing top-tier engineering talent in India.

What You'll Be Doing

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, manage, mentor, and develop teams of AI software engineers. Grow your team members’ career paths through consistent coaching, performance management, and continuous feedback.

• AI Technical Direction & Delivery: Guide your team in the architecture and delivery of scalable production AI products, including intelligent chatbots, document processing systems, and agentic workflows using Python and modern AI frameworks.

• Recruiting & Site Growth: Actively recruit, interview, and retain top-tier AI engineering talent to build out FloQast's Core AI capabilities in India.

• Global Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with product managers, QA, architecture, security, and global engineering leaders to design and implement our centralized AI platform (model routing, provider management, vector search).

• Process & Culture: Cultivate an engineering culture of innovative, egoless, high-trust problem solving. Champion lean software development, Agile principles, and robust LLMOps/DevOps practices for AI systems.

• Production Excellence: Ensure your team builds robust, compliant, and observable AI products that integrate seamlessly with diverse technologies (accounting systems, external APIs) in a B2B SaaS environment.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of software engineering management experience, with a track record of leading teams to deliver complex backend or AI products to a paying customer base.

• 5+ years of experience as an individual contributor as a software engineer, with a strong background in Python, backend development, and cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).

• Production AI Experience: Familiarity with LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), conversational AI, and scalable system design for AI products.

• Distributed Team Leadership: Proven experience leading and managing teams that are geographically distributed, driving alignment across time zones.

• Recruiting & Mentorship: Hands-on experience recruiting and interviewing engineering personnel, alongside a strong track record of managing individuals' performance and career growth.

• Agile & Delivery Mastery: 5+ years working on teams using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) with a strong commitment to automated testing, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

• Communication & Alignment: Strong ability to communicate complex system designs and AI strategies to both technical and business stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing managers of software engineering teams.

• Hands-on experience with advanced RAG architectures, reranking systems, semantic search systems, or AI observability/monitoring tools.

• Experience working on B2B SaaS products, particularly in the financial or accounting space.

• Familiarity with our broader web stack (MongoDB, Express, React, and Node) to facilitate seamless integration between AI services and core applications.

• Knowledge of model context protocols (MCP) or reinforcement learning techniques (RLHF).

FloQast is the leading AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform, uniquely built by former accountants for accountants. We automate complex, recurring accounting workflows—transforming preparers into strategic reviewers and relieving accountants from tedious manual work. Our cloud-based solution is trusted by over 3,500 world-class accounting teams, including Lululemon, Doordash, and the MLB, to drive collaboration and financial accuracy. Driven by a mission to continuously elevate the profession, FloQast is redefining both the practice and the perception of accounting on a global scale.

Our values act as a guiding compass, shaping every decision we make, and are non-negotiable, particularly in our hiring process. Alongside our employees, partners, and customers, we embody these values every day:

Unwaveringly Authentic

Ambitious with Integrity

Empowered to Grow

Committed to Collaboration

Customer Obsessed in All Ways

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