Engineering Manager, AI-Driven SaaS for Law & Finance

Nylon; Auckland; On-site; NZD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nylon is building AI research tools that transform how lawyers and accountants work. We're growing quickly and seeking our first Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building the Nylon product and to shape the team around them.

You will own product engineering for the Core Nylon experience, drive delivery with product, source top talent, set engineering standards, and grow squads as we scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing software engineers in a high growth SAAS environment.
• Hands-on with AI tooling and development workflows.
• Experience establishing operational excellence in engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage Nylon engineers: 1:1s, growth plans, performance and leveling.
• Own delivery, ensure squads ship against plan with early trade-off visibility.
• Hire senior-heavy team with Talent Lead on sourcing.
• Set engineering standards: code review, release quality, on-call and postmortems.
• Stand up squads as team grows: Core, Auth & Billing, Growth.
• Stay close to the work: review PRs, design reviews, pager shifts without blocking code.

Skills

People management

SAAS engineering

AI tooling awareness

Delivery leadership

Tools

Node.js

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Jest

Docker

Datadog

GitHub Actions CI/CD

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Job description

Nylon is building AI research tools that transform how lawyers and accountants work. We're growing quickly and seeking our first Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building the Nylon product and to shape the team around them.

You will own product engineering for the Core Nylon experience, drive delivery with product, source top talent, set engineering standards, and grow squads as we scale.