Quanta is the AI accounting platform for modern finance teams—combining in-house accountants with a general ledger built to scale with your business. Backed by Accel.
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.
What they're looking for
- 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
- Opinionated about engineering culture and effectiveness, and willing to push on it
- Bonus points for experience with financial systems, ledgers, or accounting workflows. You are excited about working in person with a collaborative team in San Francisco
More about this role
We're building a new system of record for finance, one that understands not just the numbers, but the business context behind them. At its core is our Operational Ledger: a financial data layer that preserves every event, calculation, policy, source, and decision behind the financials, rather than reducing them to contextless entries.
Questions that once took weeks to answer become as routine as a Google search: Why did margins change? Which customers are actually profitable? How are we tracking against budget? We're not bolting AI onto legacy software. Quanta was built from the ground up around granular financial data, flexible primitives, and systems that agents can safely understand and act on.
We've spent years closing the books for real, fast-growing companies and turning what we learn into product. We've already replaced much of what QuickBooks and NetSuite can do and the manual work surrounding them. Customers are now turning off legacy accounting systems and moving to Quanta.
We're still early. The problems are hard, the ambition is enormous, and there's no playbook for what we're building.
We're a small tight-knit team working together in person in downtown San Francisco....
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