Instawork - Engineering Manager/Senior Engineering Manager

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in engineering management or people leadership. • Deep backend and distributed-systems background, with range across the stack, including frontend and ML infrastructure. • Experience running Kubernetes in production, ideally across more than one cloud, with an eye on storage and compute cost. • Proven experience managing and mentoring engineering teams and building high-performing teams from the ground up or at scale. • Strong track record of hiring and building engineering teams, including sourcing, interviewing, and closing strong technical talent. • Strong technical depth with the ability to engage in architecture and system design discussions and make sound technical decisions. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across Engineering, Product, Operations, Robotics, and Business teams. • An AI-first mindset and experience with data-intensive systems such as video, computer vision, or ML training data. Robotics experience is a plus. • You thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced, 0-1 environments. You act like an owner, practice high-velocity decision-making, and know how to ship product quickly without sacrificing quality. • Our Values • Empathy, Trust & CandorWe put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback. • Empathy, Trust & Candor • Bias for ActionWe practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct! • Bias for Action • Always Be LearningWe’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry. • Always Be Learning • Act Like an OwnerWe work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description. • Act Like an Owner • Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started! • Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale. • Personnel Privacy Policy