Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Augment applies AI to logistics to automate freight brokerage, carrier management, and 3PL operations. The Engineering Manager will lead and scale a core engineering team, guide technical execution, remain hands-on with architecture and code, and collaborate with Product, AI, and Operations to build reliable autonomous systems.
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development
- Drive technical execution on key product and platform initiatives, ensuring the team ships high-quality, reliable systems
- Stay hands-on when needed — participate in architecture reviews, write production code occasionally, and support critical decision-making
- Partner closely with Product, AI, and Ops to define roadmaps, clarify requirements, and align priorities
- Experience building 0→1 products, with a willingness to stay hands-on while scaling and shaping the engineering function
- Improve engineering processes, rituals, and on-call practices to help the team move faster with increasing quality
- Create clarity through strong communication — ensuring teams understand goals, trade-offs, and success criteria
- Collaborate with other engineering managers to shape engineering culture, standards, and best practices
- Participate in hiring and onboarding to help scale our engineering organization, including building and leading our new Customer Support product team
Skills
- • 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in engineering leadership or people management
- • Strong technical foundation in building distributed systems and backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, or Python
- • Experience leading teams in fast-moving, high-growth environments
- • Ability to balance hands-on technical involvement with team leadership and execution oversight
- • Strong communicator who can explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- • Comfortable working through ambiguity and helping teams break down complex projects into deliverable milestones
- • Excited to work in a hybrid capacity from our office in San Francisco help continue to build a collaborative, high-energy engineering hub
- • Experience at early- or growth-stage startups
- • Experience working with AI agents, LLMs, or agentic architectures
- • Background in logistics, freight, or related industries
- • Experience scaling engineering teams or working across multiple offices
- • Open-source contributions, technical writing, or mentorship experience
Benefits
- Stock options
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits
- Flexible PTO
- On-site gym
- Monthly stipend
- Hybrid work arrangement
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