Engineering Leader - Platform

Overview

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About Basis

Basis equips accountants with a team of AI agents to take on real workflows. We have hit product-market fit, have more demand than we can meet, and recently raised $34m to scale at a speed that meets this moment. Built in New York City. Read more about Basis here.

The Team

The Platform Engineering team at Basis designs, builds, and operates the infrastructure that powers our AI research and products. Were a lean team that loves architecting large-scale distributed systems from first principles. We obsess over clarity : clean abstractions, simple mental models, and crisp interfaces that let our product and research teams move fast without breaking things. Were not building featureswere building capabilities for an AI accountant. That means modeling the world the agent lives in (accounting concepts, workflows, and constraints) and providing rock-solid foundations : scalable services, efficient data pipelines, and end-to-end observability.

About The Role

As an Engineering Leader on the Platform team, your job is to make the team successful to achieve ambitious technical goals and to build the people and systems that make that success sustainable.

Youll be responsible for shaping technical direction, building world-class engineers, and ensuring that what we build today still feels right a year from now.

This is a highly hands-on leadership role : youll design systems, review architecture, debug hard problems, and set standards for technical excellencebut youll also coach, grow, and unblock others so that great things happen without you.

What Youll Be Doing

• Drive impact at the company level

Translate company priorities into clear technical goals for the platform team.

Hire, mentor, and grow exceptional engineers.

Be deeply technical : design architectures, review critical code, and guide standards for performance and reliability.

Location

Location : NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.

What Wed Love To See

What Success Looks Like In This Role

Salary range : $100,000 $300,000. This range represents our broad compensation philosophy and covers various responsibility and experience levels. Additionally, all employees are eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. We are committed to meritocratic and competitive compensation.

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