Software Engineering Manager

Palo Alto · USD 200,000-280,000 / year · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 1, 2026

At a glance

Mashgin powers the world's best checkout experience for over 40 million users. Customers just place their items on our kiosks and our AI rings up their entire order in less than a second. With Mashgin, lines are now optional.
Mashgin's technology powers over 1 billion transactions at your favorite locations, including over half of all US professional sports teams, 4,000 convenience stores, major airports, universities, and more.
We’re not just building cutting-edge AI—we’re creating real-world impact and unforgettable experiences. Backed by a well-funded Series B, we’re also one of the rare AI startups that’s already profitable.
Our secret? A culture of extreme ownership, autonomy, and customer obsession. At Mashgin, we are building something extraordinary by challenging conventional wisdom. We’ve thrown out the old rules to focus on what truly matters: creating a kickass product that makes people say, 'Wow'. We don’t care about short-term wins; we build systems that stand the test of time. If you thrive in a culture of excellence without compromise and want to see your work have an immediate, remarkable impact, you’re in the right place.
Mashgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at Mashgin are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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Mashgin is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to own the direction, delivery, and quality of a core area of the product while working directly with the founders.
This role involves staying hands-on by designing, writing, and reviewing code across the stack, as well as hiring and growing a small team of strong engineers.

Own the direction, delivery, and quality of a core area of the product, working directly with the founders from idea through ship
Hire and grow a small team of strong engineers, creating space for uncertainty, making context switches cheap, and setting the bar for what gets through review
Stay hands-on: design, write, and review code across the stack, with an emphasis on reading and reviewing code across the full stack
Turn ambiguous product goals into technical plans your team can execute without close supervision
Work with a small interdisciplinary team across hardware, software, and design on products that ship to an IoT fleet of physical kiosks actively operating in the field
Decide what to rebuild for scale and what to leave alone, and make the case for either
Carry production ownership and on-call alongside your team
Mentor engineers on the team and across the wider engineering group

8+ years building production software
3+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance, and career growth
A track record of staying technical while managing: recent code, design reviews, or architecture you personally owned
B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
Excellent knowledge of one or more of these languages: Python, Node.js, C++, Go, Java
Comfortable learning new languages, libraries, and frameworks when the solution calls for it
Experience building production-ready code that's used regularly by lots of people

Built a team from a few engineers into a functioning group
Experience in a fast-paced work environment, shipping quality code quickly and iterating
Comfortable with deploying and managing cloud infrastructure
Worked on products with a hardware or edge-deployed component
Experience working with memory-constrained and performant systems
Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures