Quanta

Head of Engineering

San Francisco, CA · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$225k-$325kDetected 99 days ago

AccountingLeadershipPlain Language

About the role

We're fresh off a Series A led by Accel, with real budget to grow the engineering team and we need an engineering leader to do so.
You'll be leading a high-caliber team of 7 with backgrounds from Stripe, Affirm, Robinhood, Cash App, Meta, Airbyte, and more.
You'll also sit on the company leadership team, working closely with the CEO (who comes from an engineering background), and helping shape company strategy and how we operate - not just how engineering runs.

You'll own hiring end to end - sourcing, closing, and holding a high bar. Startup hiring is not passive
we expect you to bring your network and know how to sell the mission to engineers who have options. Once people are here, you'll invest in their growth: understanding what motivates each person, giving clear feedback, and helping them develop into their best.
Lead the company, not just engineering
You'll own hiring end to end - sourcing, closing, and holding a high bar.
Once people are here, you'll invest in their growth: understanding what motivates each person, giving clear feedback, and helping them develop into their best.
You'll create clarity on priorities and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
understanding what motivates each person, giving clear feedback, and helping them develop into their best.
You'll build the right level of process for where we are - structured enough to execute, light enough to move - and evolve it as we scale.

Experience managing and scaling engineering teams at a startup, ideally as the first or sole engineering leader
Track record of hiring strong engineers and closing candidates who had other options
Technical depth that earns respect - you can mentor on architecture, review hard problems, and engage seriously with a complex domain
Comfort operating in high-ambiguity environments where the playbook doesn't exist yet

experience in fintech, systems of record, or domains where correctness is non-negotiable
You're excited about working in person in San Francisco.

Quanta is an AI-powered finance platform built for fast-growing companies.
The result is a real-time, intelligent financial backbone that goes far beyond traditional accounting software.
Many of today's fastest-growing startups - Decagon, Braintrust, Browserbase, Mintlify - rely on Quanta as their financial foundation.

Competitive early-stage equity
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Take-what-you-need paid vacation
Commuter benefits
Wellness stipend
You'll own delivery across workstreams, balance short-term output with long-term technical health, and be a credible technical voice who can mentor engineers on architecture, craft, and production readiness.
Bonus: experience in fintech, systems of record, or domains where correctness is non-negotiable

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We are a tight-knit team of 17, working 4 days in-person in downtown San Francisco.
Our backgrounds sit at the intersection of finance and engineering.
As a group, we have built accounting systems at Affirm, ledgers at Stripe and Robinhood, and companies from the ground up.
We have passed CPA exams, built finance teams from one to dozens, shipped 0→1 products, and scaled systems that support billions in transactions.
We understand our customers because we have been in their shoes.
We care deeply about correctness, trust, and building systems that last.
We are defining the Operational Ledger, a new financial foundation for how businesses truly understand themselves.
If you want to work on deep, consequential systems, financial data is one of the hardest places to do it well.
Accounting sits at the center of every business, yet today it is slow, opaque, and stripped of the context needed to answer real questions.
We use accounting as the raw material, not the end goal.
By operating directly on real customer data and real workflows, we turn messy, judgment-heavy financial data into a reliable, queryable system of record.
We are building the Operational Ledger by staying unusually close to the real work.
Today, that means we do the accounting ourselves for a focused set of customers.

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