Senior Full-Stack Engineer

About DAT

DATis 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 45 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 400 million freights posted in 2022, and a database of $150 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see ***/company.

Job Application Deadline: 07/31/2024

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team in Denver, CO, Beaverton, OR or remote

Come be part of a highly talented and collaborative team, where you will have the opportunity to help transition the company's core business product from a monolith to an AWS microservice based system. As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating high quality software that is both reliable and easy to support.

Candidate profile

• Veteran engineer with proven breadth and/or depth of technical expertise.
• Typically a go-to person within a team or technology that positively impacts the quality and/or productivity of their team.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a project or feature including planning, design, development, and deployment.
• Ensures technical and inter-team dependencies are noted and well understood by the team.
• Works within their team to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in all aspects of delivery.
• Improves code structure and architecture in service of testability, maintainability and observability.
• Writes, co-writes, and reviews design documentation. Provides constructive criticism.
• Is highly proficient and productive in one or more technical areas.
• Monitors adherence to DAT Engineering and team standards and practices, recommends additions and/or refinements.
• Mentors other engineers, individually and in groups.
• Evaluates engineering candidates by conducting technical screening interviews.
• Collaborate with architecture groups to guide and define the technical direction of new and existing applications and capabilities.
• Leverage AWS to deliver cloud-native solutions.
• Write unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Document software systems and project tasks.
• Participate in design & code reviews.

What You'll Do

• Work with a highly skilled and cooperative team to produce high quality backend and frontend software.
• Work across the stack from UI to database.
• Design and develop REST APIs and other code that is reliable, maintainable, and extendable.
• Leverage AWS to deliver efficient, cloud-native solutions.
• Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and guide others in doing the same.
• Document software designs and project tasks.
• Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and direction to other team members.
• Design and develop front-end interfaces and other code that is reliable, maintainable, and extendable.
• Participate in design/code reviews.
• Serves as on-call first responder for software their team owns.
• Translate business needs and requirements into technical specifications.
• Document software designs and project tasks.
• Work with team members to improve development processes and practices.

The Skills and Experience You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience working up and down the stack.
• Strong proficiency with Node.js and Typescript.
• Experience with Modern Web UI Frameworks: Angular, React, etc.
• Applied Knowledge of REST/GraphQL APIs and established best practices.
• Modern object oriented scripting languages such as Javascript, Typescript, or equivalent.
• Practical experience with Cloud-Native Development such as in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Working knowledge of DevOps pipeline and build/deploy tools.
• Ability to collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, and UX/UI Designers to distill high level requirements into actionable technical requirements.
• Effective interpersonal, written communication skills.
• Adept at effectively working with professionals from a wide range of disciplines.
• Passionate about delivering high quality results.
• Committed to ongoing professional development and learning.
• Practical experience of Design Principles and Patterns.
• Applied Knowledge with unit testing.
• Applied Knowledge with Agile and at least one agile methodology such as SCRUM, XP, or SAFE.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Understanding of messaging systems like Kafka.
• Applied knowledge of Cloud-native deployment tech like Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Experience lifting and shipping legacy applications from on-premise / co-located data centers to cloud platforms.
• Experience with A/B testing using industry standard tooling such as Optimizely, Mixpanel, Segment, etc.
• Experience with containerization and local development toolings for Docker & Kubernetes.

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
• Up to 20 days of paid time off starting in year one
• 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
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• 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