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Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, we foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and measurable impact.\nThe Role\nCore Product Engineering sits at the core of BackOps, building the product that turns complex supply-chain operations into reusable workflow automations. We are seeking an engineering leader to guide a team of product engineers building the systems our customers run their operations on.\nThis role is for leaders who think in products as much as in systems. This product area does not have settled patterns yet, so a large part of this job is product and design thinking done alongside Product and Design, not execution handed down from a roadmap. You should want to be close to the work: read code, sit in design reviews, and hold a high bar on how the software gets built.\nYour Impact\nIn this role, you will own the evolution of BackOps core product, making sure it meets the next wave of customer scale, quality, and reliability needs. You will partner with product, design, and customers to deliver software that ships predictably and holds up in production.\nHire, Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of product engineers.\nOwn the evolution of BackOps core product: the reusable workflow automations customers run their operations on, and the product surface end to end.\nOwn the software development lifecycle end to end: architecture and design, code review, testing, release, and what happens in production afterward.\nDrive predictable delivery and raise the engineering quality bar. Be accountable for what ships, when it ships, and how well it holds up.\nPartner with Product and Design in a tight, fast loop. Bring your own product opinions, decide quickly, ship, and measure.\nWork directly with customers and design partners. Their operations change constantly, and the product has to change with them.\nDrive how we plan, evaluate, and improve our AI agents, and build the team's fluency in doing it.\nChampion reliability, safety, and performance of the systems running in live customer environments.\nWhat We're Looking For\n5+ years managing engineers, on top of a strong hands-on engineering background.\nDeep grounding in software engineering fundamentals: system design, code quality, testing, and release practice. You can go deep with your engineers on a design decision.\nA track record of shipping quality software predictably, and of raising the engineering standard of a team.\nStrong product and design instincts. You can hold your own in a design review and you bring your own opinions about what the product should do.\nExperience building with LLMs or AI agents in production, and a clear view on how to tell whether they are working.\nA genuine AI-first approach to engineering. You use coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex) in your own workflow and you can teach it.\nComfortable when requirements evolves and the right answer is not known yet.\nClear written and verbal communication with engineers, designers, customers, and founders.\nNice to Have\nDepth in evals, agent orchestration, multi-agent architectures, or RAG in production.\nZero-to-one experience: built a product from an idea to product-market fit.\nBuilt with design partners, where the customer is in the loop weekly.\nGrown a team through a step change in size, and hired well while doing it.\nExposure to operationally complex industries (logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, retail).\nWhat Success Looks Like\nEvery cross-team initiative has an owner, a definition of done, and a status you can trust.\nIntake has a front door, and unplanned work is measured weekly rather than estimated once a year.\nThe org plans and re-plans without it being an event.\nEscalation paths are designed, 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