Senior Software Engineer

About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 44 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 227 million freight posts in 2021, and a database of $126 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Beaverton, OR or Denver, CO.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer that is passionate about building great customer-facing software. You will be working in a full stack TypeScript ecosystem (Node/Angular) to develop code that is reliable, maintainable, and scalable. Staff engineers at DAT participate and coordinate across teams and are evaluated at least in part based on their team’s outcomes.
In this role you will tackle a variety of stories, from building microservices to creating compelling user experiences on top of the latest web technologies. You will be part of a team that designs, develops, tests, and delivers solutions through our CI/CD environments and deploy solutions to our customers hosted on AWS.

Candidate profile

• Growth-oriented. You see failure as an opportunity to learn, and consistently prioritize the next most important thing to improve.
• Pragmatic. You’d prefer to build and deliver customers value in two weeks rather than spend months polishing something you’re not sure a customer will want. Passionate. You get excited about challenging new problems to solve and applying existing or new technologies in new and creative ways.
• Owner. You know business outcomes reflect on all team members, and collaborate with your team and other business disciplines to achieve the best customer outcomes. You take pride in the code you craft and the practices you apply.
• Empathetic. You care about the team, the organization, the company, and cultivate a positive work culture. 
• Collaborative. You like to share your knowledge.  You understand that the collective knowledge is more important than individual, and you seek to ensure others are as informed as you and expect the same in return.
• Quality. You care about the quality of your work and the experience your customers receive.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop reliable, scalable, and maintainable software solutions
• Participate in design/code reviews
• Coach and mentor other team members in areas of expertise (such as TypeScript, AWS solutions, and REST APIs)
• Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and guide others in doing the same
• Lead team members to improve development processes and practices 
• Document software designs and project tasks
• Decompose product requests into estimable plans with noted dependency chains
• Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design
• Translate business needs and requirements into technical specifications

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, plus.
• 8+ years’ experience in software development with demonstrated experience working full stack
• Expertise using modern server frameworks (ideally Node.js) to build microservices and/or REST APIs
• Expertise developing using containers (Docker/Kubernetes) and/or serverless technologies (Lambdas)
• Expertise using web UI frameworks such as Typescript, React or Angular to build web UI’s
• Competency with build and deployment in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with Scrum/Agile SDLC
• Invested in the professional growth and development of individuals and teams
• Competency with client and server unit testing
• Outstanding interpersonal, written communication skills
• Adept at building professional bridges with professionals from a wide range of disciplines

In compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the minimum salary for this role is $136,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)