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We measure delivery on one scoreboard that reads throughput beside quality, so speed never gets counted without quality next to it.\nOur platform runs on TypeScript services, React micro-frontends and a shared design system, on AWS across multiple regions.\nOur Product Development teams work across North America, the UK and Asia-Pacific. Each team works within one time-zone band, so its members share a working day.\nEngineering Director -- Accounting Platform\nActionstep is building the next generation of its platform for law firms, with AI built in from the start. The work is greenfield, and it sits at the core of how firms run their business, so accuracy, auditability and trust matter as much as speed. We build with AI-driven software development, i.e. AI writes most of the code, and team members decide what gets built, judge whether the result is right, and improve the system that builds it.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role. You lead a new and growing team of engineers, designers, QA and accounting specialists, and you act as its engineering manager as you build it out.\nLocation -- Denver, Colorado (hybrid).\nIn this role, you will:\nOwn delivery -- you own the plan, keep it honest, and explain progress, trade-offs and risk plainly to the executive team.\nSet the technical direction -- you work with the tech lead and senior engineers on the decisions that are expensive to reverse, including how AI agents act safely on financial data.\nRun an AI-first build -- you lead the spec-driven way of working, measure it, and make it faster as we learn.\nHire and grow the team -- you build the team and set the standards it works to.\nWork across teams -- you agree scope and dates with the teams the platform depends on, such as permissions, approvals and workflow.\nOther Responsibilities:\nUndertaking any other reasonable duties as required\nRequirements\nExperience & Qualifications:\nFinancial systems experience -- you have led engineering for accounting, billing, payments or other systems where the numbers have to be right, including regulated or audited money flows.\nGreenfield delivery -- you have taken a new platform from first commit to paying customers, and kept the plan honest along the way.\nSaaS experience -- you have built and run multi-tenant SaaS products.\nLed AI PDLC adoption -- you have moved an engineering org to AI-driven development and can show what changed, with data. 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