[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @Afresh

Role Description

As Senior Engineering Manager for DC Buying, you'll lead engineering for Afresh's AI-powered fresh buying product. Buyers at grocery distribution centers use it to decide what to buy, how much, and when. Every order a DC buyer places determines what lands in the stores it serves. Get it right and shelves stay full and less food goes to waste across the whole network.

DC Buying is live with enterprise customers and scaling fast. Your job is to make it the tool DC buyers can't work without. You'll own engineering end to end and partner with product, design, data engineering and applied science on one roadmap. You'll also work directly with customers to make sure what we build supports buyers' daily work.

We're looking for someone who has demonstrated excellence as an engineering manager, thinks beyond their own team, and wants to own the outcome, not just the delivery.

What You'll Do

• Lead engineering
• Hire, develop and retain a senior team of product engineers. Set clear expectations, invest in their careers, and address performance directly and on time.
• Set the technical bar. Review architecture, push back on unnecessary complexity, and be deliberate about where we take on and pay down tech debt.
• Build strong relationships with peer engineering leaders across platform, data and AI, so DC benefits from shared tooling instead of reinventing it.
• Build the roadmap
• Own the DC Buying roadmap with product, design and science leads. Balance customer asks, technical investment and business goals.
• Know the business deeply. Understand what matters to users, moves key metrics and how to delight customers.
• Execute effectively
• Make clean commitments, internally and with customers, then hit them. Tell people early when something is going to slip.
• Turn broad goals into scoped plans with a sequence, a cost and a date.
• Keep leadership and partner teams aware of what's happening, and drive decisions to clarity.
• Own reliability, on-call health and data quality for a product buyers rely on every day.
• Be a great example
• Build a culture where engineers and scientists own problems, not tickets. Bring them in early with customers, product and design rather than handing them a predetermined solution.
• Be creative in your problem solving.
• Build innovative product that delights DC buyers and drives massive customer impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience developing, scaling and supporting mission critical products in production.
• Strong technical range across multiple functional domains (front-end, back-end, data pipelines and applied science).
• Experience hiring, growing and managing performance on a team.
• Clear, direct communication with stakeholders, executives and customers.
• Comfort with ambiguity and growth-stage pressure.
• Use of AI-native development practices day to day.

Nice to Have

• Supply chain, retail or grocery experience, especially demand forecasting, replenishment or inventory optimization.
• Experience shipping forecasting, optimization or recommendation products.
• Experience taking a product from early design partners to production at enterprise customers.
• Familiarity with our stack: Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Databricks, Azure.

Salary Band in U.S. (USD)

$203,745 - $275,655 + meaningful early-stage equity + benefits

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh.
• Dedicated mental health support and counseling services.
• Competitive base salary, meaningful equity (U.S. employees), and a 401(k) program with a generous company match.
• Home office stipend and "Coworking Wallets" for flexible workspace access.
• Annual professional development budget to master new skills.
• Monthly stipends for "Betterment" (wellness/lifestyle) and telecommunications.
• Flexible paid time off to recharge.