Software Engineering Manager

About Mashgin

Mashgin powers the worlds best checkout experience for over 40 million users. Customers just place their items on our kiosks and our AI rings up their entire order in less than a second. With Mashgin lines are now optional.

Mashgins technology powers over 1 billion transactions at your favorite locations including over half of all US professional sports teams 4000 convenience stores major airports universities and more.

Were not just building cutting-edge AIwere creating real-world impact and unforgettable experiences. Backed by a well-funded Series B were also one of the rare AI startups thats already profitable.

Our secret A culture of extreme ownership autonomy and customer obsession. At Mashgin we are building something extraordinary by challenging conventional wisdom. Weve thrown out the old rules to focus on what truly matters: creating a kickass product that makes people say Wow. We dont care about short-term wins; we build systems that stand the test of time. If you thrive in a culture of excellence without compromise and want to see your work have an immediate remarkable impact youre in the right place.

Position Summary

Have you led a team without giving up the parts of engineering you like most Were looking for an Engineering Manager who also excels as a builder: someone who notices patterns that lead to better design abstractions and technical direction to elevate the entire team while sitting down to ship a feature when needed.

This role owns integrations that enable Mashgins kiosks to operate as point-of-sale devices. That means the software running on our kiosks the services behind them and the customer-facing features that 40 million people touch. Youll work directly with the founders on what gets built set technical direction for your area and be accountable for both the quality of the work and the growth of the people doing it. We expect you to spend roughly a third to half your time hands-on.

A note on titles since it looks unusual from the outside. Every engineer at Mashgin carries the title Member of Technical Staff. We keep the org flat on purpose and we dont use levels to decide whose ideas carry weight. Managing here doesnt mean sitting above that structure; it means holding a teams direction hiring and growth while remaining one of the engineers building the product. If youre looking for a role where management is the reward for no longer coding this isnt it.

What We Value:

• Impact : You will own significant responsibility and have total ownership over your work. We stay lean and efficient so your work directly impacts the product we ship every day.
• Simplicity : Complexity is a waste of time herewe take pride in building things that just work.
• Hard Work : Forget the glamorous research papers. We prioritize the hard work it takes to achieve real-world clarity and accuracy. You will innovate relentlessly to push the boundaries of whats possible in visual automation.
• Humility : No task is beneath you. Whether its high-level architecture or grunt work to fix a bug we check our egos at the door and get real work done.
• Ruthless Prioritization : If everything is on fire nothing is. You will be expected to prioritize ruthlessly cutting through distractions to focus on the most impactful product improvements.
• Customer Innovation : We are customer-centric not customer-pleasing. You wont bend to every client demand; you will let innovation drive the product forward to solve the real problems our users face.
• Efficiency : Meetings suck. We keep them short and only use them for alignment giving you your time back to focus on real work.

What Youll Do

• Own the direction delivery and quality of a core area of the product working directly with the founders from idea through ship

• Hire and grow a small team of strong engineers creating space for uncertainty making context switches cheap and setting the bar for what gets through review

• Stay hands-on: design write and review code across the stack with an emphasis on reading and reviewing code across the full stack

• Turn ambiguous product goals into technical plans your team can execute without close supervision

• Work with a small interdisciplinary team across hardware software and design on products that ship to an IoT fleet of physical kiosks actively operating in the field

• Decide what to rebuild for scale and what to leave alone and make the case for either

• Carry production ownership and on-call alongside your team

• Mentor engineers on the team and across the wider engineering group

Minimum Qualifications

• 8 years building production software

• 3 years managing engineers directly including hiring performance and career growth

• A track record of staying technical while managing: recent code design reviews or architecture you personally owned

• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)

• Excellent knowledge of one or more of these languages: Python C Go Java

• Comfortable learning new languages libraries and frameworks when the solution calls for it

• Experience building production-ready code thats used regularly by lots of people

Preferred Qualifications

• Built a team from a few engineers into a functioning group

• Experience in a fast-paced work environment shipping quality code quickly and iterating

• Comfortable with deploying and managing cloud infrastructure

• Worked on products with a hardware or edge-deployed component

• Experience working with memory-constrained and performant systems

• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work on a small multidisciplinary team with the potential to break new ground in many different industries
• Excellent health dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• 401k plan
• Flexible PTO policy
• Competitive salary and options in a small rapidly scaling company

$200000 - $280000 a year

For roles based in Palo Alto CA the overall market range for Mashgin is typically $200000 - $280000 USD annually. Note that total compensation for this position will be determined by candidates relevant qualifications work experience skills and other relevant factors. This estimate excludes the value of any benefits offered by Mashgin and the potential future value of any other long-term incentives.

Mashgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at Mashgin are considered without regards to race color religion national origin age sex marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status gender identity or sexual orientation.

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Manager