Senior Engineer

The Opportunity

Join as an early engineer to build the core backend systems, data pipelines, and integrations that power intelligent freight insights at scale. You'll work directly on the infrastructure and data systems that define the technical foundation of a company targeting $125M ARR in 5 years.

What You'll Build

• Backend Systems & APIs
• Build versatile, scalable backend services and APIs that power the platform
• Data Pipelines & Ingestion
• Design and build pipelines to ingest, clean, and transform messy real-world freight data at scale
• Database Infrastructure
• Design schemas, optimize queries, and build the data layer across Postgres and related systems
• Integrations
• Build integrations with TMS systems, external data sources, and strategic partners

What We're Looking For

• Product & Startup Mindset
• Comfort with ambiguity; builds MVPs quickly
• Strong product intuition — able to turn data and ideas into customer-facing insights
• Experience in early-stage startups ready for scale
• Pragmatic, fast, iterative, and relentlessly resourceful
• Curious and has the ability to learn on the job to use the right tool for the job
• Backend / Full Stack
• Deep experience building versatile backend systems and APIs
• Very strong Python skills (primary language)
• Experience with MVC frameworks and RESTful API design
• Understands distributed systems, event-driven workflows, caching, and logging
• Data Engineering
• Strong SQL and Postgres expertise, schema design and optimization
• Experience building data pipelines and ingestion systems at scale
• Skilled at cleaning, normalizing, and transforming messy real-world data
• Geospatial/location tracking data processing (nice to have)
• AI / Machine Learning / LLMs
• Experience working with LLM-powered workflows (agents, tool use, structured outputs)
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, JSON outputs, guardrails
• Exposure to ML systems in production (evaluation, monitoring)

Why Now

• Large Market Opportunity
• Underserved market with clear pain points and strong demand
• Product-Led Growth
• No onboarding friction – built for rapid adoption
• Proven Leadership
• Founder with successful exits and deep industry relationships, having been part of teams raising over $100M in prior ventures
• Capital Efficient
• Clear path to profitability with strong unit economics
• Ready to Build the Future of Freight?

Interested in this role? Reach out to us at: careers@getoptimus.ai