--- title: "Offshore Software Teams for Logistics and Transportation" description: "Carrier APIs, tracking data and platforms that can't go down. Hire offshore software teams for logistics and transportation, fully managed from Thailand." url: "https://azendo.co/industries/logistics-and-transportation/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Industries](https://azendo.co/industries/) 3. Logistics and transportation # Software development for logistics and transportation. Logistics software is mostly integration, and integration is mostly other people’s reliability. The engineering problem is rarely the happy path. 4 weeks Time to hire a dedicated team, from signing Every Friday You score our delivery in a short survey Your repos Work happens inside your existing codebase 1 lead One service delivery manager across every specialist assigned Send us a message Tell us where your team is stretched. We'll reply with what we'd deliver and what it takes. ## Systems that cannot be taken offline, and integrations you do not control. Your dedicated offshore team works on the failure paths as deliberately as the features, because in logistics the failure paths are most of the system. A logistics platform is usually a small amount of proprietary logic surrounded by a large amount of connection. It talks to carriers, customs, telematics, warehouse systems and customer ERPs. Then come the many smaller partners, each with their own file format and their own idea of uptime. So much of the engineering is deciding what happens when a partner system is slow, silent or returns something unexpected. Systems that handle this well were designed to, and that design work never really stops. It is also why continuity matters more here than in most sectors. The knowledge of which carrier misbehaves in which way is undocumented almost everywhere. A developer who has worked on the platform for two years knows far more than two who each worked on it for one. When uptime and deployment are the constraint, a [dedicated cloud and DevOps team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/) is often the first addition. For the tracking and reporting layer, a [dedicated data engineering team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/) covers it. Assigned engineers work inside the partner’s own platforms, integrations and monitoring. In logistics, the interesting engineering is what your system does when somebody else’s system stops answering. ## Mapped to what breaks in logistics platforms. Pick the constraint that costs you most, and the service line behind it is where we start. Where a regression on a live network is the main worry, an [offshore QA team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) can test every release alongside the developers. [Carrier and partner integrations → Software development](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/)[Uptime and deployment risk → Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/)[Tracking and reporting data → Data engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/)[Regression risk on a live network → QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) ## Day-one fluency in how logistics systems are built. Specialists are matched to your stack at scoping. These are the ones we see most often in logistics and transport codebases. * [Java](https://azendo.co/skills/java/) * [.NET](https://azendo.co/skills/dotnet/) * [Python](https://azendo.co/skills/python/) * [PostgreSQL](https://azendo.co/skills/postgresql/) * [Kafka](https://azendo.co/skills/kafka/) * [RabbitMQ](https://azendo.co/skills/rabbitmq/) * [EDI and EDIFACT](https://azendo.co/skills/edi-and-edifact/) * [REST and SOAP carrier APIs](https://azendo.co/skills/rest-and-soap-carrier-apis/) * [Kubernetes](https://azendo.co/skills/kubernetes/) * [Observability tooling](https://azendo.co/skills/observability/) * \+ more on request ## Four points where logistics teams call us. If one of these is where you are now, say so on the first call and we can scope the right engineer and seniority. Every team is [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/) delivered as a fully managed service: the specialists are ours, assigned to you full time, with delivery management, training, the workplace and HR included. A new carrier or market with a fixed launch date The integration work is known, the team is committed elsewhere, and the date is external. An integration layer everyone avoids touching It works, it is fragile, and every change is estimated defensively. Incidents concentrated in one part of the platform The team knows where the risk is and has no capacity to reduce it. Azendo assigns continuous capacity Engineers on the platform every month, so the failure paths get attention too. ## Questions logistics teams ask us first. Most of these come up because the platform cannot be taken offline to accommodate a new team. Can you work on a platform that cannot have downtime? Yes. It shapes how the team starts: the first weeks go into observability, the incident history and the deployment path before anything is changed. Where a platform has no safe rollback, restoring one is usually the first job. The order of work is agreed with your team before anything is deployed. Do you have experience with EDI and carrier integrations? We hire for it. Where a specific standard or carrier matters, we source for it at scoping. Most integration difficulty in this sector comes from the undocumented behaviour of the system on the other end. Your team learns that on your platform. Our platform runs 24/7 across time zones. How does a Thai team fit? Thailand is on UTC+7: five hours ahead of Northern Europe in summer and six in winter, and three to four hours behind Sydney. You share part of every working day. Your dedicated team is a delivery team. If you need round-the-clock incident response, we scope an on-call rota for it explicitly. How do you avoid regressions on a live network? With test coverage on the paths that carry volume, the same deployment gates your own engineers use, and monitoring that shows a problem within minutes. In this sector we often recommend testing capacity alongside development. A regression on a live network is expensive, and hard to roll back once shipments are moving. A logistics platform tends to need these service lines together. One agreement covers them, and one service delivery manager is your contact for all of them. [Software development](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/)[Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/)[Data engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/)[QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) ## Tell us what the network cannot afford to lose. Thirty minutes with a service delivery manager. You'll leave with a clear picture of the team you'd need, what it would deliver and how we would hire it in four weeks. [Get in touch](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/)