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Augment · 13 hours ago

Backend Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

4+ years exp

Augment is a company focused on revolutionizing logistics through AI technology. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to build AI assistants for logistics by designing, developing, testing, and improving software, while managing project priorities and contributing to code reviews.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)TransportationLogisticsFreight Service

Responsibilities

Build AI assistants for logistics by designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving pragmatic software

Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

Be a full business owner: shape the foundation of the product and business that you work on

Actively learn new languages, techniques, and methodologies

Contribute actively to code reviews and design reviews

Qualification

TypeScriptPythonJavaScriptREST APIsDistributed systemsUnit testingEnd-to-end testingAWSCuriosityPassionExperience in logisticsMachine learningCommunication

Required

BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience

4+ years of experience in a related role

Insatiable curiosity, undying passion, and ownership to take on hard real-world problems

Extensive TypeScript, Python, or JavaScript experience

Someone who verifies their work through thorough unit testing and end-to-end testing

Experience shipping production code with full instrumentation: deployment, logging, and monitoring, and documentation

Experience processing large amounts of data

Experience with building and evolving REST APIs

Experience with distributed systems

Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English

Must be willing to work hybrid in NYC

Preferred

Experience building AI agentic applications

Experience with Open AI, Anthropic, Llama, and other leading LLMs and Cartesia, Eleven Labs voice models

Master's, PhD degree, further education, or experience in engineering, computer science, or other technical related field

Prior experience in Logistics, Freight brokerage, Shipping, and Warehouse technologies

Machine learning, operations research and optimization, developing large software systems, logistics & fulfillment industry, pricing algorithms, shipping technology

Rich GitHub or hackathon accolades or other ways you can show that you love to code

Benefits

Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Benefits

Flexible PTO

Company

Augment

Augment provides an autonomous AI assistant platform to optimize logistics operations with emails, chats, and invoicing services.

Founded in 2024

Austin, Texas, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.goaugment.com/

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$110M

Key Investors

Redpoint8VC

2025-09-04Series A· $85M

2025-03-18Seed· $25M

Leadership Team

Harish Abbott

Co-Founder and CEO

Recent News

PR Newswire

Penske Logistics Accelerates Agentic AI Supply Chain Initiative with Augment

2026-01-16

Techmeme

Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

2025-11-07

PR Newswire

Turvo and Augment Partner to Deliver AI-Powered Order-to-Cash Supply Chain Orchestration

2025-10-31

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