Engineering Director- Accounting Platform

Actionstep•Denver, CO

3d•$200,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Actionstep is hiring an Engineering Director for its Accounting Platform, a greenfield initiative building the next generation of its legal practice management platform with AI built in from the start. The platform is central to how law firms run their businesses, so accuracy, auditability and trust are important alongside delivery speed. This hands-on leadership role leads a new and growing team of engineers, designers, QA professionals and accounting specialists, while also serving as the team’s engineering manager. The director owns delivery planning and reporting, helps set technical direction with the tech lead and senior engineers, leads an AI-first development approach, builds and develops the team, and coordinates scope and dates with dependent teams. Actionstep teams use AI throughout the development lifecycle: engineers and product managers define and review the work and own what ships, while AI agents perform much of the building and testing. The company measures throughput alongside quality. Its platform uses TypeScript services, React micro-frontends and a shared design system on AWS across multiple regions. Product Development teams work across North America, the UK and Asia-Pacific, with each team operating within one time-zone band. The role is based in Denver, Colorado, with a hybrid work arrangement.

Requirements

Experience leading engineering for financial systems such as accounting, billing or payments, including regulated or audited money flows where numerical accuracy is essential.
Experience taking a new platform from its first commit to paying customers while maintaining an honest delivery plan.
Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS products.
Experience leading AI-driven development adoption in an engineering organization and demonstrating the changes with data.
Hands-on use of AI coding tools and experience leading a team that builds with them.
Experience leading distributed teams across time zones, including contractors.
Ability to explain trade-offs and delivery risks clearly to senior executives.
Ability to lead through managers and tech leads, raise the hiring bar, make and revise decisions using available data, communicate complex technical trade-offs simply, build trust across teams and time zones, and take ownership of quality and outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience with legal, trust or professional-services accounting software.

Responsibilities

Own delivery by maintaining an honest plan and clearly explaining progress, trade-offs and risks to the executive team.
Set technical direction with the tech lead and senior engineers, including decisions that are expensive to reverse and safe use of AI agents on financial data.
Lead and measure the spec-driven, AI-first development approach and improve it based on results.
Hire and grow the team and establish its working standards.
Coordinate scope and dates with dependent teams, including teams responsible for permissions, approvals and workflow.
Coach and develop engineers and engineering managers.
Undertake any other reasonable duties as required.