DAT
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Denver, CO, USA · Staff+ · Contract
H1B sponsorship available$172k-$223kDetected 12 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsExpressDistributed SystemsCode ReviewMongoDBAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDevOpsKafkaSupply ChainLogisticsTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- About DAT DAT is 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 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.
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, high-performance backend systems and microservices using Node.js.
- Best Practices: Drive the adoption of modern software development practices, including automated testing, conduct code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Cloud Architecture: Architect, maintain and monitor robust, scalable and reliable services on AWS, leveraging services like EKS, MSK (Kafka), and S3.
- Incident Management: Lead the response and resolution for complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, DevOps, and front-end engineers, to deliver timely, high-quality and performing end-to-end solutions.
- Deep Node.js/TypeScript expertise, building and operating Express (or similar) HTTP APIs at scale.
- Expertise with document databases especially DocumentDB/MongoDB
- Demonstrated technical leadership: leading cross‑team designs in ambiguous problem spaces, writing clear system design documents, operations runbooks, and driving alignment across Engineering, Product, and Operations.
- Proven mentoring track record, especially helping mid‑level engineers grow in system design, observability, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in backend software development, including significant time as a senior or staff engineer owning complex, high‑throughput production services.
- Hands‑on experience with zero/low‑downtime migrations
- Strong understanding of microservice and API contracts
Nice to have
- Extensive AWS experience with production backends, ideally including EKS/Kubernetes, Lambda, MSK/Kafka, DocumentDB or MongoDB, and Secrets Manager/S3/CloudWatch, plus infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or similar).
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
- Fluency with observability and on‑call health, designing dashboards, APM traces, logs, and alerts; defining SLOs; and using these tools to drive down incident frequency and MTTR.
- 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
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**
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