Avathon
Engineering Lead, Transportation & Logistics
$160K–$220K
Pleasanton, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineers.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Leads a hands-on engineering team building Avathon’s logistics and transportation product, including shipment integrations, real-time event processing, delay prediction, and AI-assisted exception management.
What you'll do
- Own architecture and build logistics services, integrations, streaming pipelines, and reusable product components.
- Integrate logistics data with the Computational Knowledge Graph and productionize ETA, anomaly detection, and routing models with AI scientists.
- Lead and mentor engineers; own delivery, production reliability, customer go-lives, and escalations.
What they ask for
- Strong backend skills in Python, Java, Go or similar, including API and integration development.
- Experience with event streaming and real-time data, such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
- Working knowledge of EDI, carrier APIs, TMS data models, and freight operations.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Nice to have
- Geospatial data and graph data models.
- Experience with transportation, logistics, or visibility software from a vendor such as Oracle (OTM), Blue Yonder, Manhattan Associates, e2open, project44, FourKites, Descartes, Flexport or Samsara.
Pay
$160,000-$220,000 USD base salary annually
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Kafka, Pub/Sub, GCP, AWS, EDI
AI focus
Productionizes ETA, anomaly detection, and routing models and collaborates on AI-agent exception management.
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