DAT
Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
Denver, CO, USA · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$143k-$183kDetected 12 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactAngularCode ReviewAWSDockerCI/CDDatadogGraphQLRESTDesign SystemsAccessibilitySupply ChainLogisticsCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking
About the role
- As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, your expertise will directly shape the architecture, quality, and long-term direction of our customer-facing products.
Responsibilities
- Design and Development: Design, build, and maintain highly performant, accessible, and responsive web applications using our core frontend stack and frameworks.
- Component Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of key UI components and design system elements, including long-term strategy for performance optimization, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
- Collaboration: Partner closely with UX designers and engineer leaders (Principals and Staff) to translate business requirements and design specs into polished, production-ready interfaces.
- Incident Management: Lead the response and resolution of frontend-related production incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and drive the implementation of preventative measures at a systemic level.
- Proven experience designing, building, and evolving component libraries or design systems used across multiple teams or products.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and drive consensus on complex decisions.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in frontend software development with a consistent track record of delivering high-quality, high-impact work at scale.
- Deep proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and the broader ecosystem, including build tooling, bundlers, and performance optimization.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, and Beaverton, OR, with additional offices in Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; and Bangalore, India.
- For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company
Compensation
- 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.
Benefits
- Define and implement frontend monitoring and alerting strategies using Datadog to track performance metrics, error rates, and user experience health in production.
- 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
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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)
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- 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.
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