Engineering Manager, AI-First Product Leader

BackOps AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Health coverage

401(k)

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Flexible time off

Meals in office

Job summary

BackOps AI is building the core product for reusable workflow automations in supply-chain operations. We seek an engineering leader to guide a team of product engineers, shaping both product and architecture in close collaboration with Product and Design.

You will stay close to the work—reading code, joining design reviews, and maintaining a high bar on how software is built. You’ll drive reliability, iteration, and real customer impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• Strong fundamentals in system design, code quality, testing, and release practices.
• Proven track record shipping quality software with high standards.
• Strong product and design instincts with own opinions.
• Experience building with LLMs or AI agents in production.
• AI-first approach using coding agents in workflow.
• Comfort with evolving requirements and uncertain answers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of product engineers.
• Own the evolution of BackOps core product, and its end-to-end surface.
• Own the SDLC end to end: architecture, design, code review, testing, release, and production afterward.
• Drive predictable delivery and raise the engineering quality bar. Be accountable for what ships, when it ships, and how well it holds up.
• Partner with Product and Design in a fast loop. Bring your own product opinions, decide quickly, ship, and measure.
• Work directly with customers and design partners. Their operations change constantly, and the product has to change with them.
• Drive how we plan, evaluate, and improve our AI agents, and build the team's fluency in doing it.
• Champion reliability, safety, and performance of the systems running in live customer environments.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

LLMs / AI agents

Product thinking

Design reviews

Code quality

Communication

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Codex

Job description

BackOps AI is building the core product for reusable workflow automations in supply-chain operations. We seek an engineering leader to guide a team of product engineers, shaping both product and architecture in close collaboration with Product and Design.

You will stay close to the work—reading code, joining design reviews, and maintaining a high bar on how software is built. You’ll drive reliability, iteration, and real customer impact.