Job Description
About Ofload and Our Mission
FreightTech is one of the most exciting spaces to be in right now, with the opportunity to transform one of the largest industries. Freight in Australia is a $66 billion market, yet it is analogue and has many inefficiencies: 30% of the time, trucks drive empty. Networks lack transparency, data flows are fragmented, and smaller transport operators face barriers to competing with the big players.
At Ofload, we’re changing how the freight industry operates and bringing it into the digital world. We leverage technology, data, and strategic partnerships to connect a growing roster of blue-chip customers with smaller, highly efficient transport operators. By reducing empty truck miles, improving visibility, and optimising supply chains, we’re driving smarter, greener, and more efficient operations that benefit businesses and the environment.
This isn’t just logistics—it’s FreightTech: a tech-powered transformation of an industry that is the backbone of the economy and touches everyone’s lives.
Why Join Ofload?
Joining Ofload means being part of a high-growth scaleup. It means working alongside motivated, ambitious individuals who are passionate about disrupting the status quo and making a real impact. Our team thrives on challenges, values direct and honest feedback, and is committed to growing together.
We’ve raised over $100M in funding from some of the world’s top investors—backers of companies like Canva, Revolut, and HelloFresh. Along the way, we’ve been recognised for our innovation and culture:
- Ranked #1: Deloitte Climate and Sustainability Award 2024 for our pioneering Carbon Analytics Platform
- Ranked #2: AFR BOSS Best Places to Work 2024 in Transport and Construction
- Recognised in AFR BOSS Fast100 List 2025 with second highest revenue
- Recognised in Deloitte Fast50 3 consecutive years
- Recognised in AFR FastStarters 3 consecutive years
At Ofload, we combine the agility of a tech startup with the impact of tackling a massive, real-world problem. If you’re ready to be part of an ambitious team reshaping the freight future, we want to hear from you.
About the Role:
We’re growing our engineering team and hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join Ofload.
We’re a highly collaborative, flat organisation where the best ideas win. An environment where you’re encouraged to bring your whole self to work and we’ll empower you to do your best.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer that gets excited to leverage AI to ship quality code faster, challenge the status quo, prototype and scope product requirements, system design, and partner with teams to drive better business outcomes.
At the core of our tech stack are PHP 8 and Laravel, serving APIs to a SPA built with TypeScript, React, and our in-house design system, Sinble; as well as our integration API clients. Our core monolith is complemented by a small handful of microservices, and our data is stored in Postgres, S3, Redis and Typesense. We host our Kubernetes clusters on AWS, and embrace infra-as-code (Helm, Terraform).
What you’ll do:
- Architect & Influence: Partner with your Tech Lead and squad to design resilient systems within our Laravel/React ecosystem that scale.
- Level Up the Team: Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, fostering a culture of high engineering standards, observability, and “getting behind the wheel.”
- Collaborate: Work closely with your team. Instead of just building to spec, ask thoughtful questions to understand the ‘why,’ investigate unusual workflows, and help your squad scope features that genuinely solve real-world problems for shippers and carriers.
Examples of what you will work on:
- You’ll build the next phase of shipper integrations to support our growing customer base.
- Build pricing primitives that are flexible so new pricing models doesn’t require rearchitecting everything.
- Design and build complex data structures that perform as we scale.
You’ll fit in if:
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a Senior Engineer, with 5-6 years overall experience building and maintaining production systems.
- You’re a Product Engineer: You care about the customer journey as much as the database schema.
- Edge cases excite you: You aren’t satisfied with the “happy path.” You look for the weird, the abnormal, and the broken
- Data driven: Experience with relational databases, schemas and how to make it perform at scale.
- You default to the backend, but know your way around the whole stack: Strong PHP and Laravel or similar experience. Practical experience with TypeScript/React or modern front-end frameworks.
- Your excited by AI: understanding when to leverage and when not to.
- You love solving hard problems - Ability to break down problems, propose solutions, and take ownership of features from conception to delivery.
Core qualities:
We are looking for a mission-driven, analytical Senior Engineer who acts as a true product collaborator, leveraging AI as a superpower to interrogate requirements, architect for edge cases, and accelerate the delivery of high-quality, high-impact solutions.
At Ofload we prioritise impact, aptitude and passion, so we’d encourage you to apply if you do not meet all the above criteria. When you apply, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
More than a job! We look after you through:
- Flexibility and Wellbeing: Balance your life with hybrid work arrangements, including remote work options and additional leave for volunteering, celebrations, and personal milestones.
- Empowerment and Growth: access to a $500 learning and development budget to put towards your professional growth, in-house workshops & Lunch & Learns; and
- Our annual Summer Camp offsite
Office Benefits:
- Weekly catered breakfast, monthly team lunch and a number of delicious snacks
- Morning brew of your choice at our local cafe
- Quarterly celebrations and team events;
- Table tennis, board games and an office library
