Software Engineer, Packfleet

Routing

£90-110k

0.25-0.45% equity

Kubernetes

C++

Rust

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

2-5 days a week in office (Bermondsey, London)

Tech-supported, carbon-neutral delivery

Job no longer available

Tech-supported, carbon-neutral delivery

21-100 employees

B2BSustainabilityLogisticsDeliveryeCommerce

Job no longer available

£90-110k

0.25-0.45% equity

Kubernetes

C++

Rust

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

2-5 days a week in office (Bermondsey, London)

21-100 employees

B2BSustainabilityLogisticsDeliveryeCommerce

Company mission

To empower independent businesses across the UK to offer the best deliveries on Earth, saving them time, money and stress, and putting their customers in control.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have a background and interest in routing, either through academia or through experience at a company solving TSP, VRP, scheduling or optimisation problems
You're proficient in Rust, C++ or another performance-oriented language without a garbage collector
You're comfortable in a very early stage startup environment, where you'll be involved in many aspects of the company
You're excited about the prospect of applying cutting-edge technology to transform a traditional industry
You have a strong product-mindset, always considering the user's perspective in your work
You enjoy tackling challenging problems, even when solutions are not immediately apparent
You're open to giving and receiving feedback to help us build the best team and culture possible
(Bonus) You have experience with TypeScript, which will help prototype and contribute to frontend tooling for our router
(Bonus) You have interest or experience in machine learning techniques (e.g. clustering, reinforcement learning, genetic algorithms)

What the job involves

Evolving our in-house vehicle router to help scale Packfleet into the future
Writing high-performance code to achieve better routes faster
Adapting and extending our routing algorithms & heuristics to tailor routes to our unique needs. For example, we are very interested in planning routes that take into account driver happiness!
Working with the rest of the engineering team to better integrate the routing into our product. Some examples are live re-routing based on traffic, dynamically pricing time windowed deliveries based on capacity and same-day deliveries
Contributing to strategic discussions around our product, operations, and business direction
Getting hands-on, understanding the logistics from the ground up to gain a better insight into the problems we're trying to solve

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Whilst it has never been simpler to start and run an eCommerce business, current courier and logistic solutions still lag behind, and often hinder growth.

Packfleet is addressing this issue for small to medium-sized companies by re-designing the delivery process. Its service saves customers money, time, and stress with app-based tracking, seamless interactions, and next-day delivery, all with a simple, transparent pricing structure.

There is considerable opportunity within the £6bn UK parcel market, as eCommerce continues to rise in popularity. Packfleet is currently operating exclusively within London. They will be using their recent funding to expand their customer base and develop their product.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

B Corporation

Top investors

40% female employees

Trustpilot (4.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Mar 2024

$10m

SERIES A

Apr 2022

$10.8m

SEED

Total funding: $22.1m

Company benefits

A competitive internally-transparent salary and generous stock options to everyone in the team
Private health & life insurance, alongside a therapy & coaching benefit
The equipment you need to work your best, at the office, or from home
Learning budget of up to £1k each year to support you to grow in your role
35 days of paid holiday & unpaid holiday if you need more, so everyone feels refreshed
Generous sick leave, including mental health days as we appreciate not everybody can be working at 100% all the time
Regular team socials, from bowling to board games
A budget to spend at our merchants each month
Free deliveries through Packfleet, so you can use our great services yourself
Our Recharge Day on the last Friday of every month: a paid day off, to spend doing something you enjoy with others in the team, rest and recuperate, or a bit of both

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Hugo Cornejo

(Co-founder)

Monzo’s first designer, Hugo was responsible for much of the original product vision and execution (and the neon Monzo cards!) and then built and led a 30+ team as VP Design for over 6 years.

Tristan Thomas

(CEO & Co-founder)

Tristan spent five years at Monzo as VP Marketing where he built a team from 1 to 25 people, ran the fastest fintech crowdfunding campaigns in history and, grew the customer base from 0 to 5m people.

Josh Garnham

(Co-founder)

Josh spent five years building products, teams and features at Monzo, from Credit Tracker & Monzo Plus, to hiring folks into a growing mobile team and nurturing team culture.

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