Senior Backend Software Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 engineers.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Communication: Excellent ability to advocate for technical direction and communicate progress to non-technical stakeholders.

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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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

Pay

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.