DAT
Engineering Manager
Denver, CO, USA · Mid · Contract
H1B sponsorship available$190k-$226kDetected 5 days ago
Distributed SystemsCode ReviewSnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDDevOpsKafkaMachine LearningdbtData EngineeringA/B TestingAgileRoadmappingForecastingLogisticsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationArgo CD
About the role
- The Engineering Manager for the Carrier Services Board (CSB) team is a critical leadership role at the heart of DAT's freight intelligence platform.
- CSB is the backbone of how carrier rate contributions flow into and power DAT's market analytics-data that brokers, shippers, and carriers rely on every day to make confident pricing decisions.
- This is a role for a technically grounded leader who is as comfortable debating architectural trade-offs as they are running a sprint retrospective or writing a career growth plan for a mid-level engineer.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-8 software engineers across different levels, fostering a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
- build a diverse, high-performing team.
- Create individualized growth plans that align personal career goals with team and business needs.
- Own sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery forecasting
- Recruit, interview, and hire exceptional engineers; build a diverse, high-performing team.
- Own sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery forecasting; hold the team accountable to commitments while managing scope responsibly.
- Lead the multi-phase migration of CSB's legacy codebase to a modern, cloud-native architecture deployed on Kubernetes, with a disciplined approach to risk management and zero customer-impacting regressions.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and architects to define target-state architecture, sequencing migration work alongside new feature delivery.
- Drive adoption of modern observability and deployment tooling (CI/CD, Helm, Argo, or equivalent).
- Partner with peer engineering managers, platform teams, and data engineering to ensure CSB systems integrate reliably with downstream consumers and upstream data sources.
Compensation
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
- Parental Leave
Company info
- Report on team health, delivery velocity, and technical health metrics to Engineering leadership.
- Champion containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices across the team.
- Evaluate technical trade-offs with an eye toward long-term maintainability, developer experience, and operational cost.
- Represent the CSB team in engineering leadership forums; contribute to org-wide engineering standards, hiring committees, and technical guilds.
- Communicate technical status, risks, and decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders including Product, Data, and Business leadership.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex software products end-to-end-from requirements through production.
- Strong working knowledge of the Product Operating Model or equivalent modern product development frameworks (continuous discovery, dual-track agile, outcome-based roadmaps).
- Hands-on experience leading a migration from a legacy codebase or monolith to a modern, service-oriented or microservices architecture.
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 applican
- 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 applican
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**
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