Director of Engineering

Director Of Engineering Outlast is building the digital infrastructure for the global recyclables industry. We are partnering with major market participants to modernize how materials are traded, financed, and moved through supply chains. The company has already secured some of the largest commercial contracts in the industry and is growing 3-4x year-over-year while maintaining strong capital efficiency. We are hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the next phase of the platform: scaling the core systems the business runs on and building the AI-enabled products that embed Outlast deeper into how the industry operates. Outlast is modernizing one of the largest markets in the world. The global recyclables industry represents a $1 trillion market that has historically operated with limited technology infrastructure. Outlast is building the digital platform that connects suppliers, buyers, and logistics into a unified ecosystem. Our platform enables market participants to transact materials seamlessly while providing integrated services including logistics coordination, financing, and quality control, creating a full-stack solution for the recyclables supply chain. In a short period of time, Outlast has secured some of the largest commercial contracts in the recyclables industry, validating both the scale of the opportunity and the strength of the platform we are building. The company is currently growing 3-4x year-over-year, a pace that exceeds traditional venture-backed benchmarks, while maintaining a disciplined approach to capital efficiency. Rather than relying on heavy capital burn, Outlast has focused on building a business with strong unit economics and operational leverage from the outset. As we continue to scale, our focus remains on building technology and systems that allow the business to grow rapidly while operating with increasing efficiency. The Director of Engineering will own engineering execution at Outlast. That means the integrity and scalability of the core platform, the internal tooling that operations, finance, and sales run on, the AI and agent automation that removes manual work from workflows, and the customer-facing products and integrations that embed Outlast with its suppliers and buyers. This role owns the seams where finance, operations, and commercial systems meet technology: inventory, reconciliation, ledgers, procurement and fulfillment workflows, pricing data, and the integrity that ties them together. Outlast builds in an AI-native environment where AI writes most of the code. The job is to architect, direct, and review AI-generated systems, not to hand-author them, and to lead a small, high-output engineering team as a player-coach. The role is based in Salt Lake City, working in person alongside the team and the business, with occasional travel to customers and sites to understand operator workflows firsthand.

Experience with data warehousing and pipelines, accounting or ERP integration, or supply chain, industrial, and marketplace businesses is a strong plus. Outlast sits at the intersection of technology, global supply chains, and sustainability, with the opportunity to modernize an industry that has historically lacked digital infrastructure. In this role, you will have the opportunity to: Help build the technology platform powering a $1T global market Own engineering at a profitable, capital-efficient company growing 3-4x year-over-year Build in a truly AI-native environment where AI writes most of the code and your leverage comes from directing itWork directly with customers across the recyclables ecosystem and ship systems they use every day Work directly with the CEO and shape how a global industry runs For the right builder, this is an opportunity to ship systems that deliver real economic value while helping define the technological foundation of a large and evolving industry.