Engineering Manager

**About TrashLab**

TrashLab is the AI-native operating system for waste and recycling haulers across the US and Canada. We replace legacy point solutions with modern technology and AI agents that do real work — in the truck, at the scale house, and on the phones. Our platform runs the full operational stack: CRM, billing, dispatch, routing, scale and recycling workflows, driver app, and customer portal. Haulers use TrashLab to grow revenue and better serve their customers.

Since launching in 2023, TrashLab has scaled rapidly: live in 40+ states across hundreds of haulers, revolutionizing a $100B+ category with cutting-edge technology. We recently completed our Series A from top-tier investors, and we're hiring a smart, ambitious team that will define what modern hauler technology looks like for the next decade. We move fast and care deeply about the operators we serve. Learn more at [<trashlab.com>](http://trashlab.com/).

**About the Role**

Roughly 70% of the job is managing agents, 30% managing people. On the agent side, you run a fleet to ship features, design the workflows they run in, make the architecture calls, and review their output. On the people side, you coach and manage a distributed team, and act as a sharp technical partner to the CTO.

It's built for an EM or tech lead manager who wants to get more hands-on, not less. If management pulled you away from building, agents put you back in it while the team keeps scaling.

**Responsibilities**

• Run a fleet of agents to build, research, and ship in production
• Drive architecture, including what the agents produce
• Partner with the CTO to reimagine the software stack for the agentic world
• Coach and grow the engineers on the team
• Drive a high performance culture across the US and Remote team.
• Partner with CTO on company level special projects across security, compliance, and cost management.

**You're a Great Fit If**

• You already run 10+ agents to build and research, daily
• You've managed engineers as an EM or tech lead manager, and want to get more hands-on
• You're a sharp engineer, not a manager who stopped coding
• You dive into the details and drive the business outcomes
• You coach engineers well and people want to work for you
• You've managed a distributed team across time zones

**Nice to Have**

• Vertical SaaS, logistics, or billing experience
• Real-time or high-reliability systems: dispatch, telephony, payments
• Built agent workflows into a production product
• TypeScript/Node and Postgres (our stack)
• Early-stage startup experience