The Role
As a Junior Software Engineer, you will utilize AI tools to enhance engineering productivity, automate tasks, and develop internal tools while contributing to various projects that streamline workflows across the business.
Summary Generated by Built In
Ovrsea is a next-generation digital freight forwarder on a mission to reinvent international transport. We combine human expertise with powerful technology to make global logistics simpler, more transparent, and more efficient for shippers around the world.
Over the past few years, Ovrsea has grown fast — now 50+ offices across 13 countries — and operates at the crossroads of global logistics, software, and AI.
Our ambition: build the most advanced, AI-augmented freight-forwarding platform in the industry.
⚙️ About the team
Our tech team builds the systems that power international freight operations end-to-end: multimodal quotations, shipment orchestration, predictive ETAs, document management, billing, and deeply integrated business workflows.
We care deeply about developer experience and engineering velocity.
We ship fast (around 20 deployments per day), maintain short feedback loops, and are fully aligned with Accelerate principles: small batch sizes, continuous delivery, strong automation, and a culture of learning.
As we accelerate the transition toward an AI-augmented company, we are opening a new, exploratory, high-potential role.
You can get more information on our team 👉 here!
🎯About the role
We’re looking for a Junior Software Engineer with an AI-native mindset — someone who naturally uses AI tools to accelerate their work, explore ideas fast, and solve problems creatively.
Your mission: Use AI as a force multiplier across engineering and the business.
This means:
- making engineers more productive,
- improving internal processes,
- simplifying operational workflows,
- and exploring any use case where AI can save time or reduce complexity.
This is not an “LLM product” or “ML research” role. It’s a builder role: someone who codes, prototypes, experiments, and ships internal improvements that genuinely make life easier for the team.
Because this is exploratory, we’re intentionally keeping the scope broad to discover exceptional AI-fluent junior talent.
🛠 What you’ll do
- Use AI tools (Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot…) to boost engineering velocity
- Build small internal tools that automate repetitive tasks or streamline workflows
- Improve developer experience (scripts, bots, CLI tools, code generators, documentation helpers)
- Explore AI opportunities across the business (Ops, Sales, Customer Success)
- Prototype quickly, iterate fast, and validate ideas with real users
- Spot inefficiencies and propose pragmatic, AI-assisted solutions
- Contribute to backend, frontend, or internal tooling depending on your strengths
You’re not expected to know everything — only to learn fast and build fast.
🔍 Who we’re looking for
Someone who is early in their career, but already:
- comfortable coding in TypeScript and/or Python
- naturally uses AI in their daily workflow
- curious, resourceful, and excited by ambiguous problems
- capable of turning ideas into prototypes quickly
- motivated by real internal impact, not theoretical research
- pragmatic: you care about solving problems, not building complex systems
- collaborative: you’ll work closely with engineers, PMs, and operations
Nice to have:
- you’ve built bots, scripts, tools, or scrappy side projects
- you’ve automated something for fun or to save time
- you’ve played with RAG, agents, embeddings, or data assistants
🧪 Examples of possible projects
(Examples only — you will help define the real ones.)
- Automating engineering chores (PR templates, changelog generation, data scrapers)
- Creating small internal dashboards or assistants for Ops or Sales
- Streamlining onboarding through AI-assisted documentation
- Improving CI/CD workflows using AI-generated configs or checks
- Code search assistants
- Tools that reduce cognitive load for engineers or operators
The spirit is: identify friction → reduce it → ship.
🚀 Why join Ovrsea
- Work closely with senior engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams
- Play an active role in Ovrsea’s transformation into an AI-augmented company
- Enjoy high autonomy, fast iteration cycles, and short feedback loops
- Have a concrete impact on how 1,000+ people across 13 countries work every day
- Grow in a culture that values pragmatism, experimentation, and learning — explore our story, products, teams, and commitments on this Notion, discover our #1 value “Learn together” through a short video, and dive into webinars, cultural presentations, and an immersive onboarding to understand the world of international transport
- Thrive in a company that combines the robustness of a scale-up with the energy of a startup
📌 Hiring process
Screening call – Meet with Antoine (CTO) and Nicolas (Head of Engineering)
Live coding test – 60 minutes, practical software engineering
AI + Technical Case Interview – Engineering reasoning, problem-solving, use of AI
Speed recruiting – Meet 4 team members from Engineering, Product, and Ops
Reference checks
Top Skills
Ai Tools (Cursor
Chatgpt
Claude
Copilot)
Python
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
Here at OVRSEA, we help business leaders to step ahead, by making their supply chain more efficient, resilient and sustainable. Our mission: delivering top-of-the-line freight forwarding services, thanks to our freight knowledge and supply technology.
How do we do it? On top of our technology, we’re adding a strong human and service dimension to the freight forwarding sector. Our teams are passionate, experienced people with solid sectorial knowledge and digital culture.
From our 6 offices around the world, we’re the supply partner of +700 companies from all sectors. These customers include prestigious brands such as Babymoov, Cowboy, Croda, Grosfillex, Lincoln Electric, Maison Francis Kurkdjian (LVMH group), Veja.
Interested in joining us? See available positions here: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/ovrsea/jobs
