Nylon builds AI research tools that are changing how lawyers and accountants work. 2,000+ firms across New Zealand, Australia and the UK trust our platform, from the biggest firms in the world to small specialist practices. Backed by Australasia's top VCs, we're expanding into the new markets while deepening our position in the UK and Australia.
Our engineering team is about to grow quickly. We're looking for our first Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building the Nylon product and to build the team around them.
The roleYou'll own product engineering for the Core Nylon experience: the research and answer experience, identity and billing, growth. You'll own line management, delivery and hiring for this group.
The team is small tody, with a handful of passionate engineers and a funded hiring plan for you to build out your team and populate new capability squads.
What you'll be doingManaging the Nylon engineers: 1:1s, growth plans, performance and levelling against our six-level engineering framework
Owning delivery, so squads ship predictably against a plan agreed with product and trade-offs are surfaced early
Hiring a senior-heavy team, working with our Talent Lead on sourcing.
Setting the engineering bar: code review, release quality, on-call, incident response and postmortems that change how we work
Standing up squads as the team grows (Core, Auth & Billing, Growth)
Staying close to the work: reading PRs, sitting in design reviews and taking a turn on the pager, without being the critical path for code
You've managed software engineers for 3+ years in a high growth SAAS environment.
You're still technical and occassionally hands on through new AI development tooling
You treat operational excellence as a management discipline, not something that happens to whoever is on call
You already use AI tooling (we're passionate Claude Code builders) and have views on what it changes about how engineering teams should be shaped
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Skills Required
- Managed software engineers for 3+ years in a high-growth SaaS environment
- Still technical and occasionally hands-on with new AI development tooling
- Experience or commitment to operational excellence as a management discipline
- Uses AI tooling and has perspectives on its impact on engineering team structure
What We Do
Nylon is a New Zealand-built AI company developing research tools for tax and law professionals. Its platform answers difficult legal and tax questions with technical responses and hyperlinked citations, serving accountants, lawyers and other professionals. Formerly known as Law Cyborg, Nylon says its tools are trusted by more than 1,800 firms globally, with customers across New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
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