Engineering Manager

About the position

Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us! We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Merchandising team at Afresh. This team plays a critical role in developing insights, products, and systems that empower our corporate users to optimize operations, product placement, assortment, and promotions to help grocers meet customer needs while minimizing waste.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of cross-functional engineers, fostering growth, collaboration, and engineering best practices.
• Define and communicate the team’s goals and roadmap, by balancing meeting short-term customer needs with long-term strategic product and engineering goals.
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and other Afresh stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions to the Afresh corporate customers.
• Guide system architecture and technical design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Evaluate and manage third-party tools and platforms that support initiatives within the Merchandising team.
• Create operational maturity in the team using metrics and data to support design-making and measure success.
• Be a culture carrier for Afresh. Set the tone for your team as a proactive, positive, and candid leader who thrives in solving hard challenges and motivates their team to do the same.

Requirements

• Management experience leading full-stack engineering teams across back-end, data, and front-end domains.
• Prior engineering and leadership experience with scalable backend and data systems.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and customer-facing functions with a keen focus on customer and business outcomes.
• Experience hiring, growing, and developing teams.
• Ability to balance technical expertise with a strong understanding of business goals.
• Experience managing complex projects and ensuring alignment across teams, functions, and disparate stakeholders.
• Eagerness to learn and continuously improve oneself, the team, and the organization.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building analytics products and systems.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment.
• Remote work flexibility for employees residing in specified states.