About this opportunity
Optimus lists this Senior Engineer opportunity in austin, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Optimus is building the logistics industry's first AI-powered autonomous revenue engine – exclusive shipper intelligence that helps freight brokers find customers, identify expansion opportunities, and close deals automatically.
We're using cutting-edge AI to transform a $3B+ problem where 87% of brokerages aren't growing their customer base.
We just sold another venture-backed tech company and we're about to do it again.
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
Build versatile, scalable backend services and APIs that power the platform
Design and build pipelines to ingest, clean, and transform messy real-world freight data at scale
Database Infrastructure
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
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)
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
Clear path to profitability with strong unit economics
Ready to Build the Future of Freight?
Interested in this role? Reach out to us at:
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Worksite address
austin, TX, 78716, US
Who can apply
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