[Remote] Engineering Manager

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

Company Overview

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