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title: 'Engineering Manager at TrashLab'
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# Engineering Manager at TrashLab

- **Company:** TrashLab
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $170k–$210k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/trashlab/am9icG9zdDoNlHX2wX_xB_B8sSIRcmsE

## Job description

## About TrashLab

TrashLab is the AI-native operating system for waste and recycling haulers across the US and Canada. We replace legacy point solutions with modern technology and AI agents that do real work — in the truck, at the scale house, and on the phones. Our platform runs the full operational stack: CRM, billing, dispatch, routing, scale and recycling workflows, driver app, and customer portal. Haulers use TrashLab to grow revenue and better serve their customers. Since launching in 2023, TrashLab has scaled rapidly: live in 40+ states across hundreds of haulers, revolutionizing a $100B+ category with cutting-edge technology. We recently completed our Series A from top-tier investors, and we're hiring a smart, ambitious team that will define what modern hauler technology looks like for the next decade. We move fast and care deeply about the operators we serve. Learn more at [trashlab.com](http://trashlab.com/).

## About the Role

Roughly 70% of the job is managing agents, 30% managing people. On the agent side, you run a fleet to ship features, design the workflows they run in, make the architecture calls, and review their output. On the people side, you coach and manage a distributed team, and act as a sharp technical partner to the CTO.

It's built for an EM or tech lead manager who wants to get more hands-on, not less. If management pulled you away from building, agents put you back in it while the team keeps scaling.

## Responsibilities

- Run a fleet of agents to build, research, and ship in production
- Drive architecture, including what the agents produce
- Partner with the CTO to reimagine the software stack for the agentic world
- Coach and grow the engineers on the team
- Drive a high performance culture across the US and Remote team.
- Partner with CTO on company level special projects across security, compliance, and cost management.

You're a Great Fit If

- You already run 10+ agents to build and research, daily
- You've managed engineers as an EM or tech lead manager, and want to get more hands-on
- You're a sharp engineer, not a manager who stopped coding
- You dive into the details and drive the business outcomes
- You coach engineers well and people want to work for you
- You've managed a distributed team across time zones

## Nice to Have

- Vertical SaaS, logistics, or billing experience
- Real-time or high-reliability systems: dispatch, telephony, payments
- Built agent workflows into a production product
- TypeScript/Node and Postgres (our stack)
- Early-stage startup experience

## About TrashLab

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: TrashLab provides an all-in-one operating system for waste haulers, integrating dispatch, billing, routing, CRM, AI order taking, and driver tracking to streamline operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: John Tan (Co-Founder & CTO) and one other co-founder (name not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Waste management software / Technology, Information and Internet
- **Target customers**: B2B – waste haulers (SMB, mid-market, municipal)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Improve the bottom line of waste haulers and sustainability in our waste system through modern software solutions.” [trashlab.com](https://trashlab.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **TrashLab Platform (SaaS)**: A cloud-based, all-in-one system that combines dispatch, route optimization, CRM, billing, customer portals, driver proof of service, reporting, and AI‑powered order taking. It replaces multiple disconnected tools and automates workflows. [trashlab.com](https://trashlab.com/careers)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: **$4M total** – Seed round of $3M (Dec 2023, led by Harlem Capital) and Pre‑Seed round of $1M (Aug 2022). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/trash-lab)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Harlem Capital (lead investor)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount growing: 13 employees (+13.3% YoY) per LinkedIn, with 3 active job postings and a +200% quarterly job posting trend.
  - Distributed workforce across 6 countries (US, Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Bulgaria, Uruguay).
  - LinkedIn followers: 2,040 (+54.3% yearly).
  - First company offsite held in Mexico City (Jan 2025). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/trash-lab)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus**: Built exclusively for the waste hauling industry, addressing workflows that general‑purpose software cannot handle (e.g., dumpster tracking, driver proof, AI order taking).
- **Integrated platform**: Replaces multiple legacy tools (QuickBooks, HubSpot, Google Maps, etc.) with a single operating record, reducing friction and data entry.
- **AI‑first approach**: Embeds AI agents into dispatch, order taking, and sales workflows, giving haulers a modern edge.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the sales organization (hiring Head of Sales, Director of Demand Generation), expanding product engineering and AI agent capabilities, and building out customer success and implementation teams.
- **Direction**: Deepen AI‑optimized routing and agentic workflows, grow the customer base across SMB, mid‑market, and municipal haulers, and continue to reduce administrative overhead for operators.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Growth mindset, autonomy, ownership, and a remote‑first hybrid environment. The team values learning and collaboration, with a recent offsite in Mexico City.
- **Remote / hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote work with on‑site time at the San Francisco HQ. Many roles are open to remote candidates in LATAM and Eastern Europe.
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**:
  - Small, distributed team (13–19 people) with a flat structure and direct impact.
  - Tech stack: Python, React, React Native, TypeScript, Postgres, Mapbox, Stripe, and AI/ML tools.
  - Active hiring for Product Engineer, Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, and GTM Engineer.
  - Emphasizes AI‑driven product development and agentic systems. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/trashlab)

## Sources
1. [trashlab.com/careers](https://trashlab.com/careers)
2. [trashlab.com/about-us](https://trashlab.com/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/trash-lab](https://linkedin.com/company/trash-lab)
4. [builtin.com/company/trashlab](https://builtin.com/company/trashlab)
5. [builtin.com/company/trashlab/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/trashlab/jobs)

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