Product Engineer, Freight Tech

Ally Logistics • Grand Rapids, MI

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Ally Logistics is hiring a Product Engineer for its Product Solutions team to drive internal product outcomes across the business. The role sits between business strategy and technical execution, connecting business leaders, internal teams, and developers to turn operational problems into scoped, shipped solutions. The Product Engineer owns problems end-to-end, from stakeholder discovery through production delivery and ongoing improvement, and helps align individual tools with the company’s broader product vision and strategic outcomes.

This is not a traditional development role. The successful candidate is a technically fluent problem solver who can choose whether to build a solution directly using AI-powered or low-code tools, or prepare a clear plan for the development team. The role includes moving ideas from prototype to team tool to product as adoption and value are demonstrated; shaping roadmaps across tools, data, and teams; building intelligent automated workflows; and configuring and maintaining the TMS and broader operations technology stack. The position is not remote.

Ally Logistics describes its mission as “To Move Freight, Better” and emphasizes its #HUSTLE values: being humble, hungry, and smart. Applicants must provide a cover letter, even a brief one, explaining their fit and linking to something they have built. A project portfolio is highly encouraged. Employees are required to sign the company’s standard non-solicit and confidentiality agreement; signing a non-compete is not a prerequisite for employment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience building and shipping software.
• Portfolio of software projects built and shipped; projects built independently using AI-powered development tools are especially relevant.
• Strong working knowledge of LLMs, agentic coding frameworks, and AI-powered development tools.
• Technical fluency to understand how systems are built, integrated, and scaled, without necessarily hand-coding every solution.
• Strong understanding of APIs, including RESTful design, authentication patterns, and communication between services.
• Ability to lead discovery conversations and translate ambiguous business needs into structured, actionable project plans.
• Project management skills, including defining scope, building timelines, managing dependencies, and driving initiatives from kickoff through delivery.
• Experience owning products or tools end-to-end, from ideation through delivery and ongoing maintenance, and seeing how individual tools connect to a larger product.
• Comfort operating across business processes, tooling, data, and people.
• Experience with low-code/no-code automation platforms.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong documentation skills, including the ability to produce technical specifications, process guides, and decision records.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with project management software such as Jira, Asana, Linear, Monday.com, or similar.
• A cover letter is required and must explain the applicant’s fit and include a link to something they have built.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in freight brokerage, trucking, or logistics, including TMS, load boards, or carrier vetting.
• A project portfolio is highly encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery conversations with business leaders and internal teams to understand operational pain points, workflows, and goals.
• Translate business needs into scoped project plans, including requirements, architecture, timelines, and success criteria.
• Own product spaces across internal tools and operational software platforms, from identifying opportunities through solution development, prioritization, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Sequence work from prototype to tool to product by validating ideas, hardening successful solutions, and scaling those that earn adoption.
• Connect tools, data, and teams to shape a broader product vision and roadmap instead of creating isolated fixes.
• Build solutions in alignment with the company’s strategic vision and demonstrate how each build advances leadership-defined outcomes.
• Rapidly prototype and deliver solutions using AI coding agents and low-code development tools, building directly when speed requires it.
• Architect scalable solutions, including how systems are structured, integrated, and maintained.
• Use LLMs and agentic tools to design and build intelligent, automated workflows that reduce friction across freight operations.
• Write technical specifications and handoff documentation that give the development team the context needed to execute.
• Coordinate adoption of new tools and processes across departments and drive alignment and communication.
• Use end-user feedback to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies and propose actionable improvements.
• Configure, customize, and maintain the TMS and broader operations technology stack.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Life insurance plan, 100% employer paid.
• PTO plan with three weeks for new employees, increasing with tenure.
• Six paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Free professional coaching through Boon Health.
• Baby-feeding support and an on-site lounge through Pumpspotting.
• Comprehensive training program.
• Ongoing, in-house professional development.
• In-office gym with strength and cardio equipment and Peloton bikes.
• On-site espresso machine and snack machine.
• On-site golf simulator.
• Commitment to defend employees who have signed predatory non-competes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level