Engineering Manager; Platform

Company Description

Sabanto is a venture-backed technology company on a mission to bring autonomy into agriculture. We believe the agriculture industry's lack of labor will drive the adoption of autonomous equipment. It's this very spirit that drives us to build a robotic machinery platform, delivering a system that brings unprecedented efficiency, productivity, and cost savings to farmers. Join our fast-growing, industrious, and passionate team of innovators as we continue to disrupt the multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry.

We are looking for a hands‑on Engineering Manager to be on the forefront of defining, prototyping and implementing software experiences across a full stack of web, mobile and cloud applications that increase the productivity and safety of vehicle automation within the agricultural industry. Specifically, this role will be focused on Sabanto's Vehicle Mission Control (vMC) platform of products, which consists of a React application and a React Native application, backed by AWS native Node.js

and Python services.

• Define and own the technical vision for the vMC platform, making architectural decisions across React, React Native, Node.js, and Python services on AWS
• Lead system design reviews, establish coding standards, and drive engineering best practices across the team
• Actively contribute code — writing, reviewing, and shipping production features alongside the team, not just directing from the sideline
• Identify and resolve technical debt strategically, balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term platform health
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and AWS services that improve reliability, scalability, and developer velocity

• Hire, onboard, and retain strong engineers; build a team culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement
• Hold regular 1:1s and conduct meaningful performance reviews; provide direct, actionable feedback that accelerates individual growth
• Identify skill gaps and create development plans that align team members' growth with platform needs
• Mentor engineers from junior to senior, fostering technical depth and career progression

• Own the team's roadmap and sprint execution from planning through release, ensuring consistent, high‑quality delivery
• Break down ambiguous product requirements into well‑scoped engineering work with clear acceptance criteria
• Track and report on key delivery metrics; proactively surface risks and trade‑offs to stakeholders before they become blockers
• Champion testing, observability, and deployment practices that support a regular, reliable release cadence

• Partner with Product and Operations to align the vMC roadmap with field realities and farmer workflows
• Collaborate with Hardware and Autonomy teams to ensure tight integration between software platform and vehicle systems
• Represent the platform team clearly in leadership forums — communicating progress, capacity, and technical trade‑offs

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Proven experience as a hands‑on leader of small teams with a focus on cloud, web, or mobile applications.
• Hands‑On Engineering: You write and ship code regularly. Solid proficiency in at least one of the team's core languages (Type Script/JavaScript, Python) and a working understanding of the full stack — React or React Native on the front end, Node.js or Python services on the back end. You're comfortable in a pull request, not just a planning doc.
• Cloud Proficiency: Proficiency in cloud‑native technologies, including AWS core services (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Dynamo
  
  DB, S3, Cloud Watch) to create scalable, observable platforms is required.
• Technical Proficiency: Some proficiency in front‑end technologies, including HTML, CSS, Type Script, and JavaScript, to create web and mobile products is desired. Ability to understand and work within the technical constraints of web and mobile development is desired.
• Architectural Judgment: Experience making…