Director of Engineering

The role

The Director of Engineering will lead a small engineering team as a player-coach to scale core systems and build AI-enabled products. This role owns engineering execution, including platform integrity, internal tooling, and customer-facing integrations.

What you will do

• Harden and extend systems for finance, operations, and commercial data
• Carry platform volume 4x year over year while keeping data trustworthy
• Ship internal tooling for trading, logistics, finance, and sales teams
• Replace manual spreadsheets with platform capabilities and agentic workflows
• Own AI observability and cost
• Build products and integrations that embed Outlast into supplier and buyer operations
• Architect, direct, and review AI-generated systems
• Stand up practices for AI-written code correctness and maintainability
• Lead and grow a small engineering team as a player-coach
• Establish engineering operating systems including delivery cadence and reliability standards

Required qualifications

• Has built systems where finance, operations, and commercial data intersect
• Has personally shipped AI and agent-powered systems in production
• Understands LLM and agent architecture, evals, latency, and cost trade-offs
• Builds primarily by orchestrating AI coding tools
• Track record of building products that non-technical customers adopt
• Has been the first or most senior engineering leader at a small company
• Based in or willing to relocate to Salt Lake City

Nice to have

• Experience with data warehousing and pipelines
• Experience with accounting or ERP integration
• Experience with supply chain, industrial, and marketplace businesses

About the company

Outlast is building the digital infrastructure for the global recyclables industry. The company is growing 3-4x year-over-year and provides a platform connecting suppliers, buyers, and logistics.