Head of Engineering

The role

You will lead engineering execution across product, platform, data, payments, and AI infrastructure. You will partner with the CEO to drive an AI-native software development lifecycle and recruit top-tier talent.

What you will do

• Own engineering execution across product, platform, data, payments, AI infrastructure, and internal developer tooling
• Recruit top-tier talent and raise the bar for excellence
• Drive the AI-native SDLC forward including shared skills libraries and agent review pipelines
• Design and improve evaluation systems for AI-generated software
• Set technical direction across the Rails API, data layer, payments business logic, and clients
• Make build-vs-buy and platform-investment calls
• Own platform reliability, uptime, data integrity, payment accuracy, security, and incident response
• Partner closely with the CEO on the product roadmap

Required qualifications

• 7-12 years building software
• Demonstrated engineering leadership in high-growth startups (Seed–Series B/C) or founder experience
• Background in hypergrowth startups
• Experience operating an AI-first engineering organization where coding agents are responsible for a significant portion of production software delivery
• Experience operating payments or financial systems at scale
• Deep technical credibility in architecture, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and evaluation systems
• Daily use of modern AI tooling including Claude Code, Cursor, coding agents, and prompt engineering
• Hiring instincts at the senior and staff level
• Willingness to work in-person at the San Francisco office 3-5 days/week

Nice to have

• Ideally Seed through Series C, or founder experience

Benefits

• Series A equity
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Transportation stipend

Before you apply

• Engineers who’ve worked with you choose to work with you again, and we’ll talk to them
• Technical systems design and AI engineering case study in the interview process
• Reference conversations

About the company

Tread is the AI-native operating system for the construction materials logistics market. It is a Series A company backed by Mucker Capital.