About Our Company Built on over four decades of pioneering research at Princeton University, our platform represents the leading edge of innovation in freight and transportation planning. We help customers unlock double-digit revenue gains and drive smarter, data-driven operations at scale.

With the recent close of our Series C funding round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, we’re entering an exciting new phase of growth. Today, Optimal Dynamics is a high-growth company of ~70 employees, backed by top-tier investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, The Westly Group, Activate Capital, and Koch.

We're on a mission to redefine the way logistics decisions are made—and we’re just getting started.

About Our Team We are a team of bright, kind, and solution-oriented people focused on creating value for our customers. We can solve problems individually, but understand that the best solutions are found when the team brainstorms ideas together. We are excited about balancing the need to deploy new solutions quickly and designing solutions that are secured, reliable, maintainable, and scalable for the long run.

About The Role We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Product Engineering team. You will be responsible for leading a team of both Frontend and Backend Software Engineers. Your ownership will extend to significant portions of our system architecture, including designing and building scalable systems, while also influencing key product decisions.

If you are energized by hands-on work on challenging projects, changing the technical landscape of the transportation and logistics industry, while seeing your impact on the internal development team and external platform, all while growing as a leader and engineer, this could be the role for you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and participate in technical design discussions, actively remove blockers, and continuously drive technical direction and best practices
• Iterate on our agile-inspired process, helping us build better software as a cohesive team
• Collaborate with our analytics, product, and design leadership as we define the scope of projects and plan deliverables
• Mentor engineers on your team, lead projects your team is tasked with, and influence our technical direction
• Facilitate 1-1s with engineers on your team, unblocking and providing regular feedback on goal progression, praise, areas for improvement, and career progression
• Identify areas for your team to learn and expand via project work, external learning, or additional mentorship

Who You Are

Nice To Have (Bonus Points)

• Agentic Development: Experience championing and building necessary tooling/guardrails to ensure productive use of agentic development practices.
• Domain Expertise: Transportation, logistics, or broader supply chain industry.
• Platform Development effectively integrating and leveraging advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Operations Research (OR) models, collaborating closely with Data Science teams to utilize their expertise.

About Our Tech Stack And Development Practices At Optimal Dynamics, our entire infrastructure runs on AWS, leveraging a wide range of services including DynamoDB, Aurora, SSM, and SQS to power our intelligent logistics platform.

Our Tech Stack Includes

• Backend & AI: Python 3 and Java
• Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript for our web-based SPA
• Data Stack: Trino, Dagster, dbt, DuckDB, and Preset
• IaC: Terraform and Spacelift
• Cloud: AWS (ECS/RDS/S3/etc)
• CI/CD: Bazel, Github, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild
• GenAI: Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT Codex, GitHub Copilot

We follow modern development best practices with all code stored on GitHub. Every pull request undergoes thorough code reviews, is fully unit tested, and deployed through our CI/CD pipeline for continuous quality assurance.

Pay Range

$185,000—$215,000 USD

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including Series C level equity
• Health / Dental / Vision 100% covered for employee and 50% for dependents
• Life Insurance, with optional supplemental insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• 401(k) with match

Optimal Dynamics is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex (including pregnancy), age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optimal Dynamics is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to careers@optimaldynamics.com once you've begun the interview process. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.