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About the Role

DAT Solutions is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to establish a new function within the Integrations organization, focusing on platform and developer experience for third-party integrators. This role will own the experience of building on DAT from the outside, including SDKs, documentation, observability, and tooling.

Responsibilities

Build proofs of concept for developer experience and platform capabilities, and take successful ones to production.
Execute against established architectures, refining them as needed.
Partner across Integrations, Product, Support, and Engineering to drive impact.
Design, build, and maintain SDKs and developer tooling in TypeScript.
Build documentation, OpenAPI specifications, and examples that work well with AI coding assistants.
Design and build API logging and monitoring for integration visibility.
Help shape lightweight governance for customer-facing APIs.
Anticipate and communicate roadblocks, and align stakeholders on shared direction.
Reduce toil and improve the reliability, cost, and performance of integration services.
Use AI-assisted development and share learnings with teammates.
Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and guide others.
Participate in design and code reviews; write and maintain technical documentation.
Review functional requirements, analyze their impact, and translate business needs into technical specifications.
Mentor engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in software development.
Deep backend and full-stack experience in TypeScript and Node.js.
Demonstrated experience designing and operating APIs consumed by external developers or partners.
A track record of taking ideas from prototype to production.
Demonstrated history of leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives.

Skills

Expertise in REST API design and surrounding practices: OpenAPI specifications, versioning, authentication and authorization, and backward compatibility.
Experience building and maintaining SDKs or client libraries.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development.
Understanding of how less technical integrators use AI tools to build against APIs.
Experience with microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability for distributed systems.
Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including event-driven, EDI, and webhook-based integrations.
Familiarity with freight, logistics, or TMS ecosystems.
Practical experience with design principles and patterns.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Experience with Scrum/Agile SDLC and CI/CD.
Outstanding interpersonal and written communication skills.
Adept at working with professionals from a wide range of disciplines.

Location

Denver, CO
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Springfield, MO
Toronto, ON
Bangalore, India

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff Engineer
8+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

$183,000.00 - $228,000.00 + target bonus

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
Parental Leave
Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
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
Employee Referral program
Internal Recognition program
Wellness program
Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)

About the Company

DAT Freight & Analytics is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of freight and logistics innovation for nearly five decades.
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.
On a defined path to $1 billion in revenue, DAT deploys a suite of software solutions, machine learning models, and intelligent automation tools that help brokers, carriers, and shippers price freight accurately, source capacity, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently.
With nearly 700 teammates across offices in Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; Toronto, ON; and Bangalore, India, DAT combines the credibility of a multi-decade market leader with the drive of a company that is not done disrupting the industry it helped build.

Equal Opportunity

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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)