Employer description & source details
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5+ engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning. Drive technical execution across the full software development lifecycle, from architecture and design to production. Partner closely with Product, Operations, Robotics, and Business teams to translate customer and business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Drive initiatives across Ops, QA, ML, and platform teams: keep context across workstreams, track progress, and make sure work lands. Stay hands-on (about 20% of your time) and contribute to architecture, design reviews, technical discussions, and complex engineering problems. Partner with ML teams on data quality, throughput, and the formats models train on. Build and scale engineering teams through proactive hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and talent development. Identify and develop strong engineering talent through regular feedback, coaching, and career development. Establish strong engineering practices around code quality, system reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Protect the team’s focus: set priorities, push back on unplanned requests, and keep delivery commitments. Help shape the engineering culture and technical direction as Instawork Robotics continues to scale. Technical Mentorship: Act as a technical pillar for the team. Earn the respect of staff engineers and guide mid- and senior-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions to raise the bar for engineering excellence. 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in engineering management or people leadership. Deep backend and distributed-systems background, with range across the stack, including frontend and ML infrastructure. Experience run
Extracted skills: kubernetes, operations