Backed by Techstars.
About the role
Own engineering execution across product engineering, platform, data, payments, AI infrastructure, internal developer tooling, and the AI-native software development lifecycle. Recruit top-tier talent and raise our bar for excellence. Push the team to strike the balance between speed and a reliable product. Have the hard conversations early.
What they're looking for
- 7-12 years building software, with demonstrated engineering leadership in high-growth startups (Seed–Series B/C) or founder experience
- Background in hypergrowth startups. Ideally Seed through Series C, or founder experience
- Strong engineering judgment around speed vs. correctness. You know where to intentionally optimize for rapid iteration, where correctness is non-negotiable, and how to build systems that recover safely when things fail
- Experience operating payments or financial systems at scale
- Deep technical credibility. Comfortable discussing architecture, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, evaluation systems, developer tooling, and modern software delivery practices at every level of the organization
- Lives in modern AI tooling every day. Claude Code, Cursor, coding agents, prompt engineering, context management, evaluation workflows, and multi-agent collaboration are part of your daily engineering practice—not technologies you've merely experimented with
More about this role
Tread is the AI-native operating system for the $660B construction materials logistics market: the aggregate, asphalt, and concrete behind every road, bridge, and building in the country. Our customers run the gamut: enterprise producers and contractors that supply the world's largest infrastructure projects, alongside the family-owned hauling fleets that have moved the material this work depends on for generations. They're the operators who actually build the roads, bridges, and buildings around us. Most of the work still happens on paper tickets, phone calls, and disconnected scale houses. We're building the software they run on.
We crossed $1Bn in monthly delivered load value on the platform in March 2026. We’re at ~$XM ARR, and growing fast. Our enterprise customers reconcile real money, real freight, and real P&L against our data every day. Tread is the most important software they use.
We’re a Series A company backed by Mucker Capital.
We’re in growth mode. If you are fulfilled by ownership and a life-changing outcome, let’s connect.
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