Technical Lead (TypeScript / Python / NodeJS / Java)

Job description

We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead with broad engineering depth, proven delivery in European tech/logistics environments, and a pragmatic view on AI to accelerate product delivery. You’ll own technical direction, guide / mentor the team, and ship reliable features across our core modules.

What you’ll do

• Partner with Product to shape architecture and delivery for areas such as freight contract management, freight audit, tendering simulations, and analytics.
• Translate requirements to execution: break down epics, scope work, estimate, and keep delivery on track.
• Set engineering standards: code quality, reviews, testing strategy, CI/CD, branching, and release discipline.
• Own platform architecture: secure multi-tenant design, APIs, data models, and observability/SRE practices. 
• Cloud & DevOps leadership: guide our evolution toward containerized workloads and modern IaC; ensure reliability, cost awareness, and scalability.
• Data & analytics: ensure data pipelines, quality, versioning, and privacy are solid; enable insight-ready data for dashboards.
• Pragmatic AI enablement: identify, design, and ship AI/LLM use cases (e.g., document/contract parsing, anomaly detection in audits, QA/test generation, developer productivity) with measurable ROI and safe guardrails.
• Technical advisory & stakeholder comms: run design reviews, demo progress to stakeholders, and de-risk decisions early.
• Team leadership: mentor engineers, recruit key hires, and foster a collaborative, ownership-driven culture across time zones.

Your skills and experience

Must-have experience

• 5+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in a Tech Lead or similar leadership role shipping B2B SaaS
• Broad hands-on background: backend (TypeScript/Node, Python, or Java), frontend (modern JS/TS frameworks), databases (relational + schema design), cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, CI/CD, and observability.
• Building secure multi-tenant apps (RBAC, OAuth/OIDC, encryption, logging).
• Demonstrated European market exposure (worked for EU product companies or shipped to EU enterprise customers) and/or logistics domains.
• Good communication in English (B2+); confident with customer-facing technical discussions.

Nice to have

• Real, shipped AI/ML or LLM integrations or leadership in applying AI to speed delivery (e.g., code assistants, test generation, data extraction).
• Designing and operating APIs (REST/GraphQL) and modular architectures (microservices or modular monoliths).
• AWS/Kubernetes/EKS, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), Prometheus/Grafana, and experience migrating from serverless/EC2 to K8s.
• BI/analytics embedding experience.
• GDPR-minded design; exposure to ISO 27001/SOC2 controls.
• Logistics experience in freight audit, rating, tendering, and EDI/e-invoicing.

Why you'll love working here

• Very competitive compensation package and meaningful impact on the international logistics space.
• Collaborative culture that values ownership, transparency, and continuous learning.
• Budget for professional development, hardware, and conferences 
• 14 days annual leave
• Home-office one a week.

Where & how we work

• As a part of engineering team, you will be working from our offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at least first year and then relocate to Thailand
• Right-to-work in Vietnam required; we help you with visa and relocations if necessary.