Engineering Lead, Transportation & Logistics

Pleasanton, California, United States. Posted 24 days ago

The role

You will build and run the Logistics and Transportation product on the Avathon platform. You will lead a team of engineers, own the technical architecture, and write code.

What you will do

Own the technical architecture for logistics services
Build and maintain integrations with TMS platforms, carrier and 3PL APIs, EDI feeds and visibility providers
Build streaming pipelines that process shipment events in near real time
Productionize ETA, anomaly detection and routing models
Model shipments, lanes, carriers and orders in the Computational Knowledge Graph
Work with the agent team on exception management
Turn customer-specific integrations into reusable connectors and product components
Lead and grow a team of engineers
Partner with the Logistics product manager on roadmap, scope and release planning
Own quality, performance and reliability for logistics services in production

Required qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years leading engineers
Built transportation, logistics or visibility software
Strong backend skills in Python, Java, Go or similar
Experience building APIs and integrations
Experience with event streaming and real-time data (Kafka, Pub/Sub or similar)
Working knowledge of EDI, carrier APIs, TMS data models and freight operations
Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Nice to have

Experience at a vendor such as Oracle (OTM), Blue Yonder, Manhattan Associates, e2open, project44, FourKites, Descartes, Flexport or Samsara
Geospatial data and graph data models

About the company

Avathon is an Industrial AI autonomy platform helping customers across heavy industries accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations.