Sr. Software Engineering Manager

ZenBusiness, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Military leave

401k with match

Annual bonus

RSUs

Pet insurance

Paid holidays

Job summary

ZenBusiness, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive outcomes beyond velocity, setting product roadmaps and ensuring delivery against business metrics. You will hire, coach, and retain remote engineers and junior managers while guiding design reviews and incident postmortems.

The role emphasizes building scalable, AI-enabled automation, data-driven decisions, and reusable patterns that accelerate multiple teams. Strong writing and strategic focus are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading engineering teams shipping web-based products, including managing managers
• 8+ years software engineering experience with recent hands-on modern web stack work
• Daily hands-on use of agentic workflows such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex
• Proof of using AI and automation to improve delivery speed or quality
• Track record tying team work to business results
• Clear, concise writing

Responsibilities

• Own team outcomes tied to business metrics, not just velocity or team health
• Set the roadmap with product and say no to work that won't move the numbers
• Hire, coach and retain high-performing remote engineers and junior managers
• Lead technically: review designs and code, ship when it unblocks the team, run incident reviews
• Raise quality and speed with automation and AI agents carrying more of the delivery load
• Decide with data using experiments, evals and customer feedback
• Build reusable agent-working patterns that other teams adopt

Skills

Team leadership

Web architecture

Data-driven decision making

AI/automation expertise

Managing managers

Technical writing

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own team outcomes tied to business metrics, not just velocity or team health
• Set the roadmap with product and say no to work that won't move the numbers
• Hire, coach and retain high-performing remote engineers and junior managers
• Lead technically: review designs and code, ship when it unblocks the team, run incident reviews
• Raise quality and speed with automation and AI agents carrying more of the delivery load
• Decide with data using experiments, evals and customer feedback
• Build reusable agent-working patterns that other teams adopt

Requirements

• 3+ years leading engineering teams shipping web-based products, including managing managers
• 8+ years software engineering experience with recent hands-on modern web stack work
• Daily hands-on use of agentic workflows such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex
• Proof of using AI and automation to improve delivery speed or quality
• Track record tying team work to business results
• Clear, concise writing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience shipping LLM-powered products, agents or evaluation frameworks
• Experience building internal tooling for engineers and agents
• Experience at a high-growth startup or lean small team
• Fintech, compliance or small business domain experience

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, disability and life insurance
• Parental and military leave, employee assistance program
• 401k with match, annual bonus, RSUs, pet insurance
• 10 paid holidays

About the Company

ZenBusiness helps entrepreneurs launch and run their businesses by removing forms, taxes and ongoing compliance hassles. It is a remote company based in Austin, Texas.