Engineering Manager, Product
Baton
Who We Are
Baton is seeking ambitious individuals who desire the autonomy and agility of a startup environment combined with the backing, power, reach, and stability of a highly respected logistics industry giant.
Baton is the Silicon Valley-based technology innovation lab for Ryder, a leading logistics company that owns 260k trucks and manages $7.4B of freight.
Prior to the September 2022 acquisition, Baton was a venture-backed start-up that operated a fleet of trucks and hung out at truck stops to truly understand the challenges at hand.
The Problem We’re Solving
Our mission is to eliminate supply chain waste by creating a digital platform to manage freight and eliminate supply chain waste.
There are 500 million hours wasted in trucking each year, over 3 billion gallons of fuel wasted per year from trucks idling, and 1 in 5 trucks on the road driving empty at any given point. This has a massive impact on the environment, the lives of millions of drivers, and ultimately, the cost of goods that we all pay. Baton is fixing that, and you will too through the impactful work you’ll do here.
Role Engineering Manager, Product
Location Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA
Basic Job Details
Office days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Work from home days: Monday, Friday
Job type: Full time
Job Description
Baton is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a team of software engineers that is responsible for one of our most important product areas. Responsibilities include overseeing project planning/execution, setting priorities, managing risks, and coordinating resources to deliver high-quality products and features, fast. The manager will ensure best practices in coding and design, align with tech leads and stakeholders, and coach and mentor their team to grow its individuals. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in web products featuring Python and React (or similar modern frameworks), excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing successful projects.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of product features in one of our most important product areas. Help our team achieve their goals by setting clear priorities, managing scope, mitigating risks, and coordinating resources effectively.
- Guide and mentor a team of software engineers in designing and implementing high-quality solutions. Provide expert knowledge in software architecture and review team’s work to ensure that they follow best practices in coding and development.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to optimize project scope, define requirements, and help your team translate them into technical specifications. Ensure alignment between technical and business goals.
- Work closely with cross-organizational and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment between engineering, product, design, and business goals.
- Manage a high-performing team with a culture of resourcefulness, craftsmanship, sustainable work-life balance, collaboration, and having fun.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 1 year as a technical lead / manager or engineering manager
- Minimum of 6 years as a full-time software engineer or developer using modern web frameworks to build user-facing web applications
- Strong working knowledge of distributed software systems
- Proficiency with Python
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience developing customer facing web applications utilizing Python, React, or similar modern web technologies
The Perks
- Competitive salary and bonus structure
- Annual bonus and Long Term Incentive Plan participation
- Hybrid work schedule
- 401k with matching
- Medical, Dental, and Vision health coverage
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount to market value)
- Hyper-stable, publicly traded enterprise
- Collaborative, fun, and tech-forward office in Hayes Valley (San Francisco)
Compensation Range: The annual base salary range for this position is $188,000 - $277,000*. Compensation will vary based on factors including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. In addition to base salary, Baton's full-time employees are eligible for an annual performance bonus.
Why You Should Join
- Have an immediate impact
- With Ryder’s existing customer base of 50,000+ companies and an internal headcount of 43,000, the scale and impact of our products will be large and far-reaching, from day one.
- Opportunity to grow and lead in a Fortune 500 company
- You’ll get to work in a rapidly growing, startup-like environment while having the stability and backing of Ryder and its full executive team.
- Creative, fast-paced environment to solve impactful problems in supply chain
- We’re going to design completely new tools for an industry that hasn’t been rethought in decades. And to do this, we need people who think differently.