Engineering Leader, Core Product & AI Workflows

BackOps; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Comprehensive health, dental, and vis

401(k) plan and disability insurance

Flexible time off

Meals in the office

Job summary

BackOps is seeking an engineering leader to guide a team of product engineers building the core reusable workflow automations for our AI-native supply-chain platform. You will work closely with product and design, read code, and participate in design reviews to set high engineering standards.

You will own the evolution of the core product, ensure its reliability at customer scale, and partner with customers to deliver software that ships predictably in production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing engineers with hands-on engineering background.
• Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: system design, code quality, testing, release practice.
• Track record of shipping quality software predictably and raising engineering standards.
• Experience building with LLMs or AI agents in production.
• Genuine AI-first approach to engineering with practical tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own the evolution of BackOps core product and ensure scale, quality, and reliability.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of product engineers.
• Own end-to-end SDLC: architecture, design, code review, testing, release, production run.
• Drive predictable delivery and raise engineering quality.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design, and with customers.

Skills

Team leadership

System design

Code quality

Design reviews

AI agent experience

Product/Design collaboration

Communications

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Codex

Job description

BackOps is seeking an engineering leader to guide a team of product engineers building the core reusable workflow automations for our AI-native supply-chain platform. You will work closely with product and design, read code, and participate in design reviews to set high engineering standards.

You will own the evolution of the core product, ensure its reliability at customer scale, and partner with customers to deliver software that ships predictably in production.