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 .
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