Engineering Manager

Who We Are

Baton is seeking ambitious individuals who desire the autonomy and agility of a startup environment combined with the backing, power, reach, and stability of a highly respected logistics industry giant.

Baton is the Silicon Valley-based technology innovation lab for Ryder, a leading logistics company that owns 260k trucks and manages $7.4B of freight.

Prior to the September 2022 acquisition, Baton was a venture-backed start-up that operated a fleet of trucks and hung out at truck stops to truly understand the challenges at hand.

The Problem We’re Solving

Our mission is to eliminate supply chain waste by creating a digital platform to manage freight and eliminate supply chain waste.

There are 500 million hours wasted in trucking each year, over 3 billion gallons of fuel wasted per year from trucks idling, and 1 in 5 trucks on the road driving empty at any given point. This has a massive impact on the environment, the lives of millions of drivers, and ultimately, the cost of goods that we all pay. Baton is fixing that, and you will too through the impactful work you’ll do here.

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Role Engineering Manager

Location Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA

Basic Job Details

Office days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Work from home days: Monday, Friday
Job type: Full time

Job Description

Baton is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and grow our team of software engineers. This role requires driving innovation, optimizing processes, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products. Responsibilities include overseeing project execution, setting priorities, managing risks, and coordinating resources. The manager will ensure best practices in coding and design, align with tech leads and stakeholders, and implement coaching and mentoring programs to support team growth and development. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in web products featuring Python and React (or similar modern frameworks), excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing successful projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers while fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. Participate in the hiring process to attract top talent. Conduct regular performance reviews, provide feedback, and create professional development plans.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of projects and features. Help our team achieve their goals by setting clear priorities, controlling scope, managing risks, and coordinating resources effectively.
• Ensure the use of best practices in coding, architecture, and design, and help streamline our engineering planning and execution processes.
• Work closely with engineering tech leads and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment between engineering, product, design, and business goals.
• Develop and implement coaching and mentoring programs to support the growth and development of team members. Provide continuous support and guidance to help engineers improve their skills and advance their careers.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years managing a product engineering team with at least 6+ direct reports
• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a full-time software engineer or developer
• Strong working knowledge of distributed software systems
• Proficiency with Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience developing customer facing web applications utilizing Python, React, or similar modern web technologies

The Perks

• Competitive salary and bonus structure
• Annual bonus and Long Term Incentive Plan participation
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401k with matching
• Medical, Dental, and Vision health coverage
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount to market value)
• Hyper-stable, publicly traded enterprise
• Collaborative, fun, and tech forward office in Hayes Valley (San Francisco)

Compensation Range: The annual base salary range for this position is $205,000 - $307,000*. Compensation will vary based on factors including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. In addition to base salary, Baton's full-time employees are eligible for an annual performance bonus.

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Why You Should Join

• Have an immediate impact
  • With Ryder’s existing customer base of 50,000+ companies and an internal headcount of 43,000, the scale and impact of our products will be large and far-reaching, from day one.
• Opportunity to grow and lead in a Fortune 500 company
  • You’ll get to work in a rapidly growing, startup-like environment while having the stability and backing of Ryder and its full executive team.
• Creative, fast-paced environment to solve impactful problems in supply chain
  • We’re going to design completely new tools for an industry that hasn’t been rethought in decades. And to do this, we need people who think differently.