Locus is a technology platform that uses machine learning and proprietary algorithms to automate complex supply chain decisions. We are building The World's Best Dispatch Management Platform in Final Mile. Our smart supply chain solutions provide end-to-end visibility and enable enterprises to enhance their operational efficiency by reining costs, streamlining the customer experience, and reducing environmental impact.

Headquartered at Bangalore, India, we have offices present across, North America, South East Asia, EU. We are a 300+ strong team and growing rapidly.

With a strong base of investors, GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, Tiger Global, Falcon Edge, Blume Ventures, pi Ventures, and others., Locus has raised around $80 million across multiple rounds.

Locus' scalable solutions include route optimization, real-time tracking and analytics, sales beat optimization, territory planning, vehicle allocation and network design. Our future-ready platform has resulted in $150 million+ savings in logistics costs, 70 million+ kilometer reductions in distance traveled, and 17 million+ kilograms reduction in GHG emissions across clients like Nestle, Mondelez, Unilever, BigBasket, Bluedart, Bukalapak, The Tata Group, & many others. The company powers deliveries across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Middle East, ANZ, and the Indian Subcontinent.

From 2015 till date, Locus has grown by leaps and bounds, with a clear focus on innovating consistently

By 2018 we were a team of 100 and we reached 10 million successful customer orders.

We raised our Series B in 2020 funding led by Falcon Edge and Tiger Global, we also open our South East Asia office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Berlin in Europe and California in the USA. Our team grew to 200 in 2020 and, we opened offices in UK, Vietnam and Singapore

We raised our Series C funding of USD 50 mil led by investors GIC and Qualcomm Ventures

Locus gets recognised twice in a row for the Representative Vendor in the latest edition of the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools

Job Description :

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You'll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Responsibilities :

- Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.

- Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus's technical strategy.

- Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.

- Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

- Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.

- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus's technology foundation.

- Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Requirements :

- Strong Computer Science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and problem-solving.

- 8+ years of experience in backend development with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.

- Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, distributed systems, and REST/gRPC APIs.

- Proven track record of building and maintaining scalable, reliable, high-performance systems.

- Solid understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous processing.

- Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP), CI/CD, and observability tools.

- Deep understanding of software design principles, architecture patterns, and performance optimization.

- Strong sense of code quality, maintainability, and observability.

- Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Self-driven, curious, and adaptable, thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and handles ambiguity effectively.