Director of Engineering Solutions

Location : Bangalore; (Full Time, Onsite)

Battle-tested in 350+ deployments across 30+ countries, Locus is an agentic Transportation Management System for all-mile, all-channel, trusted by enterprises like Unilever, Nestlé, and Siam Makro. 

The platform unifies orders, capacity, and carrier networks into one living plan, aligning planning, execution, and settlement so promises become proof. AI co-pilots with guardrails surface risk early and recommend the next best move to protect SLAs and reduce empty miles.

 In 2025, Locus joined the Ingka Group (IKEA Retail) family, marking a major milestone in our journey. Backed by the scale and strength of IKEA, we continue to operate independently while accelerating our mission to make global supply chains faster, smarter, and more sustainable.

Since 2015, Locus has been on a mission to make logistics decision-making intelligent, sustainable, and real-world ready. Our platform has powered billions of deliveries across 30 + countries for global enterprises, driving measurable impact in cost savings, carbon reduction, and SLA performance. With the strength of the IKEA ecosystem behind us, we’re scaling that impact even further.

Headquartered in Bangalore, with teams across the U.S., U.K., UAE, and Southeast Asia, Locus brings together 170 + engineers, designers, and problem-solvers united by a single goal: to reinvent how the world moves goods.

We look for people who are:

• Global in mindset: curious about diverse markets and ideas.

  
  

• Unrelenting in drive: energized by complex challenges.

  
  

• Intelligent in approach: analytical, creative, and thoughtful.

  
  

• Dynamic in execution: adaptive and decisive in fast-moving contexts.

  
  

• Exact in craft: detail-oriented and committed to excellence.

  
  

Role Overview

As a Director of Engineering at Locus, you will play a mission-critical role in shaping and scaling the core technology that powers global supply chains. You will lead engineering teams that build our agentic Transportation Management System, now operating across 30+ countries and used by enterprises like Unilever, Nestlé, and IKEA Retail.

The Director of Engineering at Locus is the end-to-end engineering owner of the system, accountable for technology excellence, delivery reliability, and team effectiveness across their portfolio. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, execution ownership, people leadership, and solution accountability to ensure Locus platforms scale reliably, ship predictably, and meet demanding enterprise SLAs.

In this role, the Director of Engineering:

• Sets and upholds the technical bar through architectural leadership, deep design reviews, and guidance on complex backend, platform, agentic AI, and optimization systems.

  
  

• Owns delivery outcomes, ensuring high-quality, production-ready features are shipped on committed timelines with strong operational readiness and customer-facing reliability.

  
  

• Builds and develops high-performing engineering teams, mentoring engineering managers and senior ICs while driving capability uplift across architecture, coding, execution, and AI-first engineering practices.

  
  

• Acts as a cross-functional and client-facing leader, partnering with Product, SRE, QA, Data Science, Solutions, and GTM teams to align priorities, manage trade-offs, support customer engagements, and deliver measurable business impact.

  
  

• Drives engineering culture and fundamentals, including ownership, craftsmanship, CI/CD quality, observability, reliability, long-term system health, and enterprise-grade solution maturity.