---
title: 'Software Engineering Manager at Mashgin'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineering-manager-mashgin-palo-alto-r1qfmz8nccgs'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-10-13'
---

# Software Engineering Manager at Mashgin

- **Company:** Mashgin
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$280k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/mashgin/b4296191-22e9-4a1f-a479-82dca6bf49b7

## Job description

## About Mashgin

Mashgin powers the world's best checkout experience for over 40 million users. Customers just place their items on our kiosks and our AI rings up their entire order in less than a second. With Mashgin, lines are now optional.

Mashgin's technology powers over 1 billion transactions at your favorite locations, including over half of all US professional sports teams, 4,000 convenience stores, major airports, universities, and more.

We’re not just building cutting-edge AI—we’re creating real-world impact and unforgettable experiences. Backed by a well-funded Series B, we’re also one of the rare AI startups that’s already profitable.

Our secret? A culture of extreme ownership, autonomy, and customer obsession. At Mashgin, we are building something extraordinary by challenging conventional wisdom. We’ve thrown out the old rules to focus on what truly matters: creating a kickass product that makes people say, 'Wow'. We don’t care about short-term wins; we build systems that stand the test of time. If you thrive in a culture of excellence without compromise and want to see your work have an immediate, remarkable impact, you’re in the right place.

Position Summary Have you led a team without giving up the parts of engineering you like most? We're looking for an Engineering Manager who also excels as a builder: someone who notices patterns that lead to better design, abstractions, and technical direction to elevate the entire team, while sitting down to ship a feature when needed. This role owns integrations that enable Mashgin's kiosks to operate as point-of-sale devices. That means the software running on our kiosks, the services behind them, and the customer-facing features that 40 million people touch. You'll work directly with the founders on what gets built, set technical direction for your area, and be accountable for both the quality of the work and the growth of the people doing it. We expect you to spend roughly a third to half your time hands-on. A note on titles, since it looks unusual from the outside. Every engineer at Mashgin carries the title Member of Technical Staff. We keep the org flat on purpose, and we don't use levels to decide whose ideas carry weight. Managing here doesn't mean sitting above that structure; it means holding a team's direction, hiring, and growth while remaining one of the engineers building the product. If you're looking for a role where management is the reward for no longer coding, this isn't it.

What We Value:

- Impact: You will own significant responsibility and have total ownership over your work. We stay lean and efficient, so your work directly impacts the product we ship every day.
- Simplicity: Complexity is a waste of time here—we take pride in building things that just work.
- Hard Work: Forget the glamorous research papers. We prioritize the hard work it takes to achieve real-world clarity and accuracy. You will innovate relentlessly to push the boundaries of what’s possible in visual automation.
- Humility: No task is beneath you. Whether it's high-level architecture or grunt work to fix a bug, we check our egos at the door and get real work done.
- Ruthless Prioritization: If everything is on fire, nothing is. You will be expected to prioritize ruthlessly, cutting through distractions to focus on the most impactful product improvements.
- Customer Innovation: We are customer-centric, not customer-pleasing. You won’t bend to every client demand; you will let innovation drive the product forward to solve the real problems our users face.
- Efficiency: Meetings suck. We keep them short and only use them for alignment, giving you your time back to focus on real work.

## What You'll Do

- Own the direction, delivery, and quality of a core area of the product, working directly with the founders from idea through ship

- Hire and grow a small team of strong engineers, creating space for uncertainty, making context switches cheap, and setting the bar for what gets through review

- Stay hands-on: design, write, and review code across the stack, with an emphasis on reading and reviewing code across the full stack

- Turn ambiguous product goals into technical plans your team can execute without close supervision

- Work with a small interdisciplinary team across hardware, software, and design on products that ship to an IoT fleet of physical kiosks actively operating in the field

- Decide what to rebuild for scale and what to leave alone, and make the case for either

- Carry production ownership and on-call alongside your team

- Mentor engineers on the team and across the wider engineering group

## Minimum Qualifications

- 8+ years building production software

- 3+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance, and career growth

- A track record of staying technical while managing: recent code, design reviews, or architecture you personally owned

- B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)

- Excellent knowledge of one or more of these languages: Python, Node.js, C++, Go, Java

- Comfortable learning new languages, libraries, and frameworks when the solution calls for it

- Experience building production-ready code that's used regularly by lots of people

## Preferred Qualifications

- Built a team from a few engineers into a functioning group

- Experience in a fast-paced work environment, shipping quality code quickly and iterating

- Comfortable with deploying and managing cloud infrastructure

- Worked on products with a hardware or edge-deployed component

- Experience working with memory-constrained and performant systems

- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures

## What We Offer

- An opportunity to work on a small, multidisciplinary team with the potential to break new ground in many different industries
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401k plan
- Flexible PTO policy
- Competitive salary and options in a small, rapidly scaling company

Mashgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at Mashgin are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Notice on fraudulent jobs We have been made aware of instances of fraudulent job postings and/or fraudulent recruiting activity by bad actors, claiming to represent Mashgin. These fraudulent schemes often seek monetary contributions or payments from job seekers (such as for "start up costs" or "equipment"), or seek to collect sensitive personal or banking information from job seekers. These job postings and offers are not authorized by Mashgin, and Mashgin is not responsible for fraudulent offers or requests for personal information or payments. Mashgin will never ask for any financial commitment or contribution from a candidate at any stage of the recruitment process. Candidates who have questions about the validity of Mashgin job postings or offers should consult the job postings on our mashgin.com career site. If you think you've been scammed, please reference this site for more information.

## About Mashgin

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mashgin builds the world’s fastest AI-powered self-checkout system, using patented 3D computer vision and deep learning to instantly identify items without barcodes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding $73.8M across 7 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Retail technology / AI self-checkout
- **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprises including Fortune 500 retailers, stadiums (NFL, MLB), and food service operators (e.g., Aramark)
- **Mission**: “Reduce the friction between customer desires and their ability to be on their way.”

## Products & Services
- **Mashgin AI Checkout**: A hardware+software system that uses multiple 3D cameras and deep learning to recognize items in real time. Customers place items, tap to pay, and go in ~5 seconds. Trained on 1.5B+ transactions with >99.99% accuracy. Integrates with 50+ payment networks, POS systems, and loyalty platforms. Purpose-built hardware and proprietary software.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $5.4M (estimated); total funding $73.8M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Matrix (led Series A), Highway1 (convertible note), plus support from 8 seed investors; partners include NFL, MLB, Aramark, Circle K, and 50+ payment/POS providers
- **Growth Signals**: 108 employees (+18.9% YoY), 4,000+ locations worldwide, 40M+ monthly users, 200+ years of customer wait time saved

## Competitive Advantages
- **Patented 3D computer vision** – creates 3D models of items in real time, achieving 99.99% accuracy even with crowded carts and hard‑to‑distinguish items.
- **Purpose-built hardware** – all hardware and software designed in‑house, delivering a faster, more reliable experience than third‑party solutions.
- **24/7/365 US‑based phone support** – expert assistance within 2‑3 minutes, a critical differentiator for mission‑critical checkout operations.
- **Easy onboarding** – pre‑trained on 100k+ common items; new items can be taught in seconds.
- **Deep integrations** – works with 50+ payment networks, POS systems, and loyalty programs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand location footprint** – already in 3,500+ locations (including stadiums, convenience stores, corporate cafeterias) and scaling rapidly.
- **Continue AI accuracy improvements** – leveraging each transaction to further train models.
- **White‑glove deployment** – hands‑on field support to ensure fast, successful rollouts for enterprise clients.
- **Talent acquisition** – actively hiring senior software engineers (product, computer vision, backend, ML) and technical product managers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & mission**: Work on cutting‑edge computer vision and deep learning that directly impacts millions of shoppers every day.
- **Hybrid remote environment**: Spend time working remotely and come to the office as needed (Palo Alto HQ).
- **Competitive compensation**: Strong equity packages in a rapidly scaling private company; flexible PTO, 401k, and comprehensive health/dental/vision benefits.
- **Engineering focus**: Small, growing team where every hire has outsized impact; technical roles span product, CV/DL, ML, backend, and integrations.
- **Employee ratings**: 3.9/5.0 on LinkedIn (33 reviews), with high marks for compensation (4.5) and culture (4.0).

## Sources
1. [mashgin.com](https://www.mashgin.com/)
2. [mashgin.com/careers](https://www.mashgin.com/careers)
3. [jobs.lever.co/mashgin](https://jobs.lever.co/mashgin)
4. [linkedin.com/company/mashgin](https://linkedin.com/company/mashgin)
5. [mashgin.com/resources/why-join-mashgin](https://www.mashgin.com/resources/why-join-mashgin)

## Other roles at Mashgin

- [Electrical Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/electrical-engineer-mashgin-san-jose-e84g8mw2srtx) — San Jose, CA
- [Hardware Operations Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/hardware-operations-specialist-mashgin-san-jose-8s6wk1ppqyny) — San Jose, CA
- [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-mashgin-palo-alto-a987weygqnpy) — Palo Alto, CA
- [Software Engineer, Full-Stack](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-full-stack-mashgin-belo-horizonte-9g6mrmjs2gjw) — Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- [Software Engineer, Full-Stack](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-full-stack-mashgin-curitiba-2gpf0xefphag) — Curitiba, Brazil
- [Builder](https://feeny.ai/job/builder-mashgin-palo-alto-ah6w5t3y6ppw) — Palo Alto, CA
- [Software Engineer, Infrastructure](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-infrastructure-mashgin-palo-alto-m7fanyxp0w2s) — Palo Alto, CA
- [Software Engineer, Full Stack](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-full-stack-mashgin-palo-alto-13fpmq80nvsn) — Palo Alto, CA
- [Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence-mashgin-bnn2ek2w5r04) — Palo Alto, CA
- [Senior Software Engineer, Computer Vision and Deep Learning](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-computer-vision-and-deep-learning-mashgin-palo-alto-5wtk4ybxfjns) — Palo Alto, CA