Founding Product Engineer – Synkka
Base pay range: $70,000.00/yr – $110,000.00/yr
About The Company
At Synkka, we’re building the AI-native operating system for logistics. Starting with carrier integrations powered by Generative AI, we’re accelerating toward a future where our customers can build, deploy, and autonomously run their own AI agents to manage delivery networks using nothing but human language. This isn’t just an upgrade— it’s a first-principles rewrite of the tech stack powering a $500B+ global industry.
About The Role
Join Synkka as a founding Product Engineer to shape AI-driven logistics solutions, requiring deep e-commerce delivery expertise in outbound, returns, or cross-border logistics.
As one of our first Product Engineers, you will not just ship features but own problems, shape outcomes, and help build the company. You will:
* Live and breathe the customer's world by collaborating directly with our CTO, CEO, and early 3PL/carrier customers to understand their deepest operational pains.
* Translate complex logistics problems, such as onboarding a new carrier or managing delivery exceptions, into simple, elegant, and shippable products.
* Build foundational systems and customer-facing products from day one, writing code and helping to write the roadmap.
* Architect clear, maintainable APIs that form the backbone of our "Plaid for Logistics" vision.
* Define and build the 'Model Context Protocols' (MCPs), which are the core backend architecture, APIs, and rules engines that will power our entire "Agent Factory". You will design the foundational tools that will enable our customers to deploy game-changing AI agents and fundamentally change how delivery works from the ground up.
* Push the boundaries of how LLMs can automate complex business logic, not just code.
* Contribute across the stack, from backend systems to internal tooling to customer-facing products.
* Help define our product-led engineering culture, technical values, and team practices from the ground up.
This is a rare opportunity to build, influence, and lead early without waiting years to have an impact.
Requirements
* Deep expertise in B2C e-commerce delivery
* Experience in outbound shipping, returns, or cross-border logistics
* Fluency as a builder
* Ability to write code and build real products
* Value impact over perfection
* Ability to ship iteratively
* Thrive in a high-trust, low-ego environment
* Desire to help build a company
* DevOps experience (especially on Azure)
* Logistics API exposure (carriers, 3PLs, TMS, etc.)
* LLM workflows (agent loops, codegen, test runners)
* Previous startup or scale-up experience
Required Skills
* Python
* FastAPI
* React
* Azure
* infra-as-code
* CI/CD
* observability
* LLM pipelines
* agentic codegen
* testing
* self-healing interfaces
* API architecture
* product development
* problem-solving
* customer collaboration
* logistics problem translation
* system building
* code writing
* roadmap development
* boundary pushing
* automation
* business logic
* product-led engineering
* technical values
* team practices
Team Members
* Second-time founders
* Seasoned logistics leaders
* AI engineers with deep expertise
Salary
$70,000 - $110,000 USD
Equity
Meaningful equity, equity that reflects your contribution and growth and a shot at defining a category. We’re serious about shared upside.
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