Tread
Head of Engineering
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
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About the role
- Most of the work still happens on paper tickets, phone calls, and disconnected scale houses.
- Tread is the most important software they use.
- We're a Series A company backed by Mucker Capital.
Responsibilities
- Own engineering execution across product engineering, platform, data, payments, AI infrastructure, internal developer tooling, and the AI-native software development lifecycle.
- Drive the AI-native SDLC forward. Personally invest in the shared skills library, namespaced agent review pipelines, devcontainers, CI, and cloud agent infrastructure that lets a small team operate at scale.
- Design and continuously improve evaluation systems for AI-generated software, including quality gates, benchmark suites, regression testing, rollout strategy, rollback procedures, and model performance monitoring.
- Make build-vs-buy and platform-investment calls that balance speed with long-term leverage.
- They're the operators who actually build the roads, bridges, and buildings around us.
- We're building the software they run on.
- You will partner directly with the CEO on building the category-defining operating system for construction materials logistics.
- The team you lead today is under 10 engineers shipping at aggressive velocity.
- We're investing heavily in an AI-driven SDLC - which you will help drive - with the product specs, architecture documentation, code review, and quality gates in place to make ~100% AI-generated code work.
- Partner closely with the CEO on the product roadmap and serve as a key thought partner. The roadmap includes deepening AI agents into customer workflows and embedding fintech throughout the app (instant funding, ACH for B2B payments, financing).
Requirements
- Experience operating payments or financial systems at scale.
- You can identify, calibrate, and close engineers who are stronger than you in their domain.
Skills
- how work flows from specification through implementation using agents
- how architecture, code quality, and correctness are reviewed
- how evaluation frameworks prevent regressions and hallucinations
- how AI integrates into CI/CD and release management
- where human judgment remains essential
- Recruiter conversation
- Meeting with the CEO
- Meeting with the Engineering team
- Board Member
- Reference conversations
- Offer
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, 401(k), unlimited PTO, and a transportation stipend.
Company info
- Tread is the AI-native operating system for the $660B construction materials logistics market: the aggregate, asphalt, and concrete behind every road, bridge, and building in the country.
- We crossed $1Bn in monthly delivered load value on the platform in March 2026.
- Our enterprise customers reconcile real money, real freight, and real P&L against our data every day.
- We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader who can help define and operate the next generation of our AI-native engineering system, partnering directly with the CEO to evolve how software is built at Tread.
This listing is sourced directly from Tread's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.