Engineering Manager

Full Harvest is solving the $2.6 trillion global food waste problem through technology and innovation. We run the only business-to-business online marketplace connecting farmers with commercial produce buyers where they can purchase imperfect and surplus produce. 

This mission helps reduce climate change by lowering CO2 emissions and water use and delivers incremental revenue to farmers. A win-win-win for farmers, food companies, and the planet. 

Full Harvest is recognized as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, the top 2020 Fast Company World Changing Idea, and Forbes Most Innovative Agtech Startup. 

Want to join a super friendly, hard working, and passionate team that is determined to solve food waste? Check out our job opening below!

The Role:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager.

You will help manage a team of engineers to execute and plan against company goals & initiatives. You possess strong leadership and communication. The Engineering Manager will work very closely with design and product management to ensure sprints are efficiently planned and executed upon. You must be a proven technology leader who possesses technological creativity to problem solving, a strong ability to innovate and think outside the box, and an exceptional manager of talent and developer of leadership. You will report directly to the future CTO or Director of Engineering. This role requires you to be based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our ideal candidate has:

• A passion for the Full Harvest vision and a desire to leave a positive impact on the planet
• Experience empowering engineers, building engineering teams, and aligning technical and business goals
• 5+ years as a Software Engineer, 2+ years as an Engineering Manager
• Familiarity with:
• Scrum and agile development practices
• DevOps and information security best practices
• Heroku, AWS, Ruby on Rails, React, Salesforce, HubSpot, Cloudflare
• Experience with agtech, e-commerce, food, and/or marketplaces (B2B preferred)
• Possesses exceptional communication skills and able to articulate technical decisions to key product and business stakeholders 
• Managing and growing successful engineering teams.

You Will:

• Be confident in making deadlines for yourself and move fast. Have insight to prioritize objectives and delegate other responsibilities 
• Ensure we have the technological infrastructure to achieve our business goals
• Collaborate with the Product team to translate customer requirements into reality
• Function as a coach and mentor of high-performing, entrepreneurial, and product-focused engineers enabling them to make sound architecture and process decisions
• Inspire the entire team by bringing new ideas to the table
• Help build and execute technology vision and roadmap. 
• Ensure we improve our productivity and culture as we grow rapidly
• Demonstrate expertise by providing deep technical guidance across the stack and lead architectural discussions to scale the product
• Display leadership qualities in managing a small team. Expected to increase team size, establish autonomy, and lead an outsourced group of engineers.

How We Operate:

As a team, we are focused on our mission of empowering sustainability solving food waste and we strive to do this by executing in the following ways:

• We are results-focused and work together to accomplish our goals
• We deliver consistently strong performance
• We go to great lengths to understand and delight customers
• We admit mistakes openly and are not afraid to ask for help
• We look for solutions in unexpected places

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work on a great mission- solving food waste
• A fun, challenging environment that will give you the chance to significantly grow and learn
• Competitive salary & meaningful equity
• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 401k benefits 

Full Harvest is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

Looking for more info about us? Take a look at our recent article featured in TechCrunch