Software Engineer, Technical Lead

About MashginMashgin 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 SummaryAre you a former Founder or Engineering Manager looking to return to hands-on technical work? Or a senior engineer passionate about developing hardware and software products that leverage AI to enhance customer experience? We offer an opportunity to step away from leadership or team management and directly contribute to creating new features and managing a core part of Mashgin’s product. 
We’re looking for people who enjoy building products and tools and are comfortable juggling multiple tasks. You will develop customer-facing products that impact the business and help define our long-term technical goals, all while upholding high-quality standards. This role isn’t highly specialized — it’s about end-to-end ownership of projects, involving you in every stage from idea, design, and prototyping to execution and shipping. You’ll also work across various parts of the codebase in multiple languages.
We maintain a flat, high-impact engineering culture where every engineer who joins our team carries the title of Member of Technical Staff.

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.

You Will Be

• Leading and owning major feature development and working directly with the founders on product development from end to end
• Technical leadership and direct responsibilities of specific products and features.
• Mentoring other engineers
• Working with a small interdisciplinary team in hardware, software and design to build new versions of products from scratch
• Work full stack on building new features and dreaming up new architecture to solve challenging problems
• Rethinking and recreating existing codebases for scale
• Continuously improving and maintaining code that’s already in production

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant coding experience
• 3+ years of technical or people leadership in a fast-paced engineering environment
• 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, C#, 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

• Experience in a fast-paced work environment, shipping quality code quickly and iterating
• Comfortable with deploying and managing