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About the Role

The Director of Engineering will own engineering execution at Outlast, focusing on the integrity and scalability of the core platform, internal tooling, AI-enabled products, and customer-facing integrations. This role involves architecting, directing, and reviewing AI-generated systems, leading a small, high-output engineering team as a player-coach, and working in person in Salt Lake City.

Responsibilities

• Scale the Core Platform: Harden and extend systems where finance, operations, and commercial data intersect, carrying platform volume 4x year over year while maintaining data trustworthiness.
• Move Operations onto the Platform and Automate It: Ship internal tooling for trading, logistics, finance, and sales teams, replacing manual spreadsheets with platform capabilities and automating them with agentic workflows.
• Own AI observability and cost, including per-feature spend tracking and model selection trade-offs.
• Build Customer-Facing Products and Integrations: Develop products and integrations that embed Outlast into supplier and buyer operations, deciding between agentic flows or embedded platform experiences.
• Measure success by effort removed and time saved for the customer.
• Direct AI-Native Development: Architect, direct, and review AI-generated systems, establishing practices for code review, AI feature evaluation, deployment discipline, and reliability.
• Lead and Level Up the Engineering Team: Lead a small, actively shipping engineering team as a player-coach, establish the engineering operating system, and serve as the engineering partner for the company.

Requirements

• Has built systems where finance, operations, and commercial data intersect: inventory, reconciliation, ledgers, procurement and fulfillment workflows, pricing data.
• Can describe a system they built across these domains, how it scaled, and what it took to keep the data trustworthy as volume grew.
• Has personally shipped AI and agent-powered systems in production.
• Understands LLM and agent architecture, evals, latency, and cost trade-offs.
• Builds primarily by orchestrating AI coding tools: architecting, prompting, reviewing, and shipping AI-written code.
• Can describe how AI changed how their team ships and how they keep AI-generated code correct and maintainable.
• Track record of building products that non-technical customers actually adopt.
• Integrates products into how customers already work, measuring success by effort removed and time saved.
• Has been the first or most senior engineering leader at a small company, comfortable doing the work without a platform, QA, or data team.
• Ships working systems, owns data correctness as the business scales, and is honest about strengths and gaps.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Salt Lake City, working in person with the team.
• Experience with data warehousing and pipelines, accounting or ERP integration, or supply chain, industrial, and marketplace businesses is a strong plus.

Skills

• AI
• Agentic Systems
• LLM Architecture
• AI-Native Development
• Orchestrating AI Coding Tools
• Prompting
• Code Review
• AI Feature Evaluation
• Deployment Discipline
• Reliability
• Data Warehousing
• Data Pipelines
• Accounting Integration
• ERP Integration
• Supply Chain Systems
• Industrial Systems
• Marketplace Businesses

Location

• Salt Lake City

Work Type

• In-person

Experience Level

• Director

About the Company

• Outlast is modernizing one of the largest markets in the world, the global recyclables industry, which represents a $1 trillion market historically operating with limited technology infrastructure.
• The company is building a digital platform that connects suppliers, buyers, and logistics into a unified ecosystem, enabling seamless transactions and providing integrated services like logistics coordination, financing, and quality control.
• Outlast has secured major commercial contracts and is growing 3-4x year-over-year with strong capital efficiency, focusing on building a business with strong unit economics and operational leverage.
• The company's focus is on building technology and systems that allow rapid growth and increasing efficiency.