Senior Backend Software Engineer

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: 06/30/2026 The Opportunity Broker Tech builds products for the Convoy Platform at DAT, enabling brokers to match and execute shipments while they work seamlessly within their Transportation Management Systems. We partner with brokers to transform how they work, grow, and succeed by: Empowering Matching: Building smarter tools and visibility that boost broker match rates and strengthen carrier connections. Fueling Growth: Enabling brokers to expand through better pricing, new freight categories, and integrations. Encouraging Healthy Behaviors: Guiding brokers toward practices that protect our carrier network and ensure product quality. Ensuring Payments: Strengthening and automating broker payment processes to reduce risk and ensure reliability. Enhancing Communication: Creating unified, timely communication channels so brokers stay informed and engaged in real time. Enabling Ideal Experiences: Delivering seamless workflows leveraging APIs and webhooks between Convoy Platform and TMSs, while empowering brokers with self‑service configuration and onboarding tools. What You’ll Do Hands‑On Development Write, test, and deploy production‑quality code; establish code review and documentation standards. Implement message‑driven workflows (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and reusable integration components. Improve the code structure and architecture as you develop new features. Technical Leadership Be the technical lead for projects, contributing to the planning, design, development, deployment, and maintenance of product features. You will drive design + delivery, not people management. Ensure that technical and inter‑team dependencies are understood and accounted for. Collaboration & Growth Partner with product and business stakeholders to clarify requirements in a complex domain. Mentor junior developers and ensure that established codebase standards are adhered to. What We're Looking For 5+ years of professional software engineering experience Strong proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, including API design, performance, and debugging in production. Familiarity with frontend development in React. Production operational competence: observability (logs/metrics/traces), incident response, root‑cause analysis, and on‑call readiness. Experience with distributed systems fundamentals: consistency tradeoffs, failure modes, timeouts, retries, and graceful degradation. Proficiency with datastores (SQL strongly preferred; NoSQL a plus) including schema design, migrations, and query performance. Hands‑on experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and cloud‑native deployments (Docker/Kubernetes on AWS/Azure/GCP). Ability to own architecture and code end‑to‑end in a high ownership, low process environment. Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills. Bonus Skills Experience designing and operating microservices in production: service boundaries, versioning, backward compatibility, and reliability. GraphQL experience (schema design, performance, caching) or strong REST + contract discipline. Experience working in a CI/CD environment: automated builds, safe deploys, rollbacks, feature flags, and environment promotion. Background in transportation, logistics, or complex B2B integrations. Why DAT? Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance Parental Leave Flexible Vacation Time (FVT) Additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year 401(k) 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) #J-18808-Ljbffr