Engineering Manager

About the role

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.

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

Requirements

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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Competitive Salary + Stock Options
Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Benefits
Flexible PTO
About Augment

Benefits

About Augment
At Augment, we set out to create a fully autonomous AI platform that streamlines operations and reclaims the human element in logistics.
Our founders recognized a pattern: talented professionals were stuck handling manual data entry, phone calls, and repetitive tasks, instead of focusing on high-impact problem-solving and strategic decision-making.
That insight became our mission—to free logistics professionals from busywork so they can focus on what truly drives business growth.
Augment isn’t just about efficiency; it’s about transforming an entire industry by empowering teams with AI-driven solutions that make logistics smarter, faster, and more adaptive.
Join us on this journey!

Pay

Competitive Salary + Stock Options

Schedule

Hybrid Work