About DAT
DAT Freight & Analytics is an award-winning employer of choice and a
next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of
freight and logistics innovation for nearly five decades. Founded in 1978, DAT
operates the largest freight marketplace in North America — processing 250
million+ load posts annually and maintaining one of the largest repositories of
freight market transaction data in the world. On a defined path to $1 billion in
revenue, DAT deploys a suite of software solutions, machine learning models, and
intelligent automation tools that help brokers, carriers, and shippers price
freight accurately, source capacity, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently.
With nearly 700 teammates across offices in Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Seattle,
WA; Springfield, MO; Toronto, ON; and Bangalore, India, DAT combines the
credibility of a multi-decade market leader with the drive of a company that is
not done disrupting the industry it helped build. For more information, visit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Job Application Deadline: 08/31/2026
The Opportunity
DAT is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Broker Tech team
building the Convoy Platform, a digital freight marketplace that connects
brokers and carriers through industry-leading technology. This role is
product-facing, but we're specifically looking for an infrastructure-minded
engineer. You should be someone who can ship features to better understand the
codebase and also raises the engineering foundation the whole org builds on.
You'll be working on a team that will focus on improving our shared services,
frameworks, tooling, and deploy infrastructure, not just our product.
What You'll Do
* Drive Technical Delivery: Lead substantial technical initiatives from concept
to production, ensuring inter-team dependencies are accounted for.
* Build on (and Improve) the Platform: Write, test, and deploy
production-quality code in Node.js/TypeScript/PostgreSQL, with React/React
Native for web and mobile. Find bottlenecks and improve, or rethink, our
architecture when it’s a bottleneck.
* Architect for Scale: Design message-driven workflows (Kafka/SQS/RabbitMQ) and
distributed systems that handle the complexities of a real-time marketplace.
* Raise the Infra Bar Across the Org: Identify and drive cross-cutting
improvements to shared libraries, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling,
observability, and Kubernetes/Terraform infrastructure. Make other teams
faster and safer, not just your own.
* Own the Lifecycle: Manage the full software lifecycle in a high-ownership,
low-process environment — observability, incident response, safe rollouts,
and performance tuning.
* Collaborate & Mentor: Partner with Product, Data Science, Platform, and
business stakeholders to solve ambiguous problems. Mentor junior en
What We're Looking For
* 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track
record of shipping impactful products.
* Backend Mastery: Strong proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js, including
API design and debugging in production environments.
* Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of consistency tradeoffs, failure
modes, retries, and graceful degradation.
* Platform/Infra Sensibility: Experience building or improving the foundations
other engineers rely on, such as shared libraries, frameworks, CLIs, CI/CD,
or developer tooling, with attention to backward compatibility and migration
paths.
* Data Expertise: Proficiency with SQL (PostgreSQL preferred) including schema
design, migrations, and query performance.
* Messaging & Cloud: Hands-on experience with message queues (Kafka or
RabbitMQ) and cloud-native deployments (AWS).
* Product Mindset: You prioritize user outcomes and business impact over
technical novelty. You are comfortable breaking down complex, undefined
problems.
* Communication: Excellent ability to advocate for technical direction and
communicate progress to non-technical stakeholders.
Bonus Skills
* Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, or experience owning deploy
pipelines and environment promotion.
* Orchestration & Networking: Production experience operating services on
Kubernetes, and familiarity with service mesh concepts. Direct experience
with Istio, or Envoy is a strong plus.
- Mobile Experience: Familiarity with React Native or app modernization.
- Modern API Patterns: GraphQL experience (schema design, performance,
caching).
* Specialized Domains: Experience in logistics, fintech/payments, fraud
prevention, or two-sided marketplaces.
* Developer Experience: Built local dev environments, code generators, or
tooling used by other engineering teams.
Our Culture
We are a collaborative, data-driven team that values respect, work-life balance,
and self-organization. We move quickly on ambiguous problems and support each
other in delivering business impact. Whether you're interested in the broker or
carrier side of the house, or in strengthening the platform underneath both,
you'll find a team dedicated to technical excellence and user-centric solutions.
Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.
For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a
great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values
predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with
excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our
products does. We’ve been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan
area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was
#26 on Built In Colorado’s 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
- An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
- 401k matching (immediately vested)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
- Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
- Collaborative and supportive team culture
- Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
- Employee Resource Groups
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**
For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay
Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $155,000.00 - $211,000.00 +
target bonus. 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)
#LI-RF1
#LI-hybrid
