Agave connects your construction software systems, automates Accounts Payable workflows, and gives field and finance teams real-time visibility across projects — without replacing your ERP or PM system. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
tl;dr: Fresh off a $15M Series A led by Accel (total funding now $20M+), Agave is experiencing hockey-stick growth. We’re looking for a world-class engineering manager who still loves to build. You’ll lead a team of strong full-stack engineers shipping AI and agent products on top of IC work yourself. In-person: This role is in-person from our office in San Francisco 5 days per week. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years as a back-end/full-stack engineer, including 1+ years managing or leading engineers (as a manager, or as a tech lead with mentoring responsibility)
- A strong IC who wants to stay one: you’ve designed and built production systems yourself, with real experience in cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and distributed systems
- Has debugged hard production issues end-to-end: DB performance, memory, concurrency, third-party API failures
- Has led projects with other engineers: scoped the work, split it across the team, and delivered it
- Has mentored engineers and given direct feedback, including the hard conversations
- Can explain tradeoffs to founders and customers, not just engineers
More about this role
tl;dr: Fresh off a $15M Series A led by Accel (total funding now $20M+), Agave is experiencing hockey-stick growth. We’re looking for a world-class engineering manager who still loves to build. You’ll lead a team of strong full-stack engineers shipping AI and agent products on top of IC work yourself.
In-person: This role is in-person from our office in San Francisco 5 days per week.
Agave builds applied AI for construction, a $12T global industry run on financial software built 20-50 years ago, much of it on-premise with no APIs and no documentation.
We spent 4 years building proprietary rails that read and write across those systems. Our AI agents run on those rails and take over the back-office work contractors still do by hand: invoice matching, expenses, compliance, billing, and financial reporting. Contractors keep the systems they already use; our agents work across them.
550+ contractors run on Agave, including teams building hyperscaler data centers, mass transit systems, and other critical infrastructure. We're backed by Accel and Y Combinator, who both reinvested in our $15M Series A, plus execs from Procore, Autodesk, PlanGrid, and Plaid.
Early-stage, yet de-risked: we...
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