Software Engineer, Lead

About UsMarble is building an AI-powered tax assistant and preparation platform that transforms how accounting firms and their clients handle taxes. We're targeting the pain points of mid-to-large size accounting firms with intelligent tools designed to streamline complex tax workflows. We're early stage, highly collaborative, and deeply focused on solving real, high-impact problems for our customers.About the RoleWe're hiring an Engineering Lead to grow and guide Marble's engineering team as we scale our AI-first tax platform. You'll split your time between hands-on technical work and leading a small, high-performing team — owning complex systems while helping engineers around you do their best work. You'll work closely with the CTO and founding team to shape how we build, how we hire, and how we operate as an engineering organization.This role sits at the intersection of technical leadership and people management. If you are a strong engineer who wants to lead without stepping away from the work, and you thrive in early-stage environments where the problems are genuinely hard and unsolved, you will be a great fit.What You'll DoLead a team of engineers across one or more product areas — setting direction, unblocking work, and raising the barOwn complex, enterprise-scale technical problems end to end — from architecture decisions to productionPartner with the CTO to define engineering processes, hiring standards, and team structure as we growDrive technical decisions across the stack with a bias for pragmatism and long-term scalabilityActively recruit, onboard, and develop engineers on your teamWork directly with product and founders to translate business needs into technical roadmapWhat We're Looking For10+ years of engineering experience with a track record of leading or managing high-performing teamsExperience owning complex, enterprise-grade technical systems end to endStrong full-stack background with depth in TypeScript, Node.js, and ReactComfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the problems are not yet definedLow-ego, high-ownership mindset — you lead by doing, not by delegatingBonus PointsExperience building AI or agentic productsBackground in tax, legal, fintech, or another highly regulated domainExperience scaling an engineering team from small to mid-sizeTech We UseFrontend: React, Remix (React Router)Backend: TypeScript, Node.js (Fastify), Postgres, WeaviateInfra: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AirflowObservability: Grafana, OpenTelemetryWhy Join Us?Own the technical direction of a product solving one of the most complex, high-stakes workflows in a $500B+ industryBuild and lead a team from the ground up alongside a CTO who values autonomy and trusts you to operate independentlyWork on genuinely unsolved problems — agentic AI applied to tax is a new frontierHighly competitive compensation, equity, and benefitsCompensation Range: CA$160K - CA$230KOriginally posted on Himalayas