Trunk Tools - Integrations Team Lead

Salary: $180K - $220K Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

Trunk Tools is a leading AI company revolutionizing the construction industry. We are building the future of construction through intelligent automation, embedding AI directly into job sites. Our mission is to transform this $13+ trillion industry, which still operates primarily in analog. Founded by experienced builders and technologists from Stanford and MIT, our team has a proven track record of delivering software used by over 140,000 field professionals, impacting millions of users and contributing to over $10 billion in built projects. We are experiencing rapid growth, doubling our size in the last 12 months and launching multiple AI agents this year.

The Integrations team is central to our strategy, responsible for syncing RFIs, Submittals, and Drawings, and processing millions of files and documents across various systems. This team is foundational to embedding our product deeply into customer workflows.

What You Will Do and Achieve

Lead a Mission-Critical Team

• Manage and grow a high-impact team of engineers focused on integrating with external construction and document management systems.
• Define technical direction, set clear goals, and ensure team alignment with company milestones and product roadmap.

Own and Expand Our Integration Platform

• Oversee the architecture and scalability of a multi-tenant integration layer that ingests structured and unstructured data at high volume and velocity.
• Ensure robustness and observability across integrations with third-party APIs, file systems, authentication flows (OAuth, SAML), and data pipelines.

Drive Partner-Facing Engineering

• Collaborate with strategic partners and third-party developers to ensure smooth onboarding to our integration frameworks.
• Develop tools and documentation that make our platform more extensible, secure, and performant for partner usage.

Ensure Data Quality and System Reliability

• Enforce SLAs and observability standards that ensure uptime, traceability, and auditability across integrations.
• Champion data validation, schema normalization, and error recovery systems that preserve trust in downstream workflows.

Shape Cross-Team Workstreams

• Work closely with the Customer Experience, ML, and Product teams to ensure that integrated data is usable, timely, and valuable for AI-powered insights.
• Participate in scoping and planning major system evolutions.

Who You Are

Experienced Leader

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years of management experience.
• Proven experience building and scaling backend-heavy systems and leading teams through complex integration challenges.

Technically Fluent

• Proficient in TypeScript/Node.
• Familiar with integrations-related concepts such as rate limiting, pagination, retries, and token refresh strategies.

Systems Thinker

• Comfortable thinking in terms of system boundaries, third-party variability, and data mapping across ecosystems.

Execution-Oriented

• Proven record of shipping production-grade integrations and driving continuous improvement in development speed, stability, and quality.

Customer-Driven

• Passionate about solving real-world problems and helping teams in the field.
• Bonus if you have experience in construction or enterprise SaaS.

What We Offer

• A startup environment where your impact is felt immediately—currently at ~60 team members and growing fast.
• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Health Benefits: 3 health plans to choose from (100% covered).