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 continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. 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. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, and Bangalore, India.   For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join our team in Denver, CO.

This team focuses on our ratings applications which process hundreds of thousands of records to provide pricing insights for the North American trucking industry. You would be responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and supporting some of our most critical systems. As well as these responsibilities, you'll be working with new technologies to forward our business initiatives and modernize some of our legacy components.

Candidate profile

• Work with a small agile team of software developers and test engineers.
• Collaborate with architecture groups to guide and define the technical direction of new and existing applications and capabilities.
• Leverage AWS to deliver cloud-native solutions.
• Write unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Document software systems and project tasks.
• Participate in design & code reviews.

What You’ll Do

• Work across the stack from UI to database
• Leverage AWS to deliver efficient, cloud-native solutions
• Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and guide others in doing the same
• Document software designs and project tasks
• Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and direction to other team members
• Design and develop REST APIs and other code that is reliable, maintainable, and extendable
• Participate in design/code reviews
• Translate business needs and requirements into technical specifications
• Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design
• Document software designs and project tasks
• Work with team members to improve development processes and practices

The Skills You’ll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years’ experience in software development with demonstrated experience working full stack
• Outstanding interpersonal, written communication skills
• Adept at effectively working with professionals from a wide range of disciplines
• Passionate about delivering high quality results
• Committed to ongoing professional development and learning
• Modern object oriented scripting languages such as Javascript, Typescript, or equivalent
• Applied Knowledge of Modern Server Frameworks such as Node, Spark, or Spring Boot
• Applied Knowledge of Modern Web UI Frameworks: Angular
• Practical experience with Cloud-Native Development such as in AWS, Azure, or Google
• Applied Knowledge of Microservices established best practices
• Applied Knowledge of REST APIs established best practices
• Practical experience of Design Principles and Patterns 
• Experience with containerization and clustering technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with object-oriented/functional programming languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Applied Knowledge with unit testing
• Applied Knowledge with Agile and at least one agile methodology such as SCRUM, XP, or SAFE
• Preferred Skills:
  • AWS native technologies such as Kinesis, RDS, Lambda, SES/SNS/SQS, API Gateway, S3, Route53
  • Experience lifting and shipping legacy applications from on-premise / co-located data centers to cloud platforms.
  • Experience developing streaming, real-time, data processing pipelines.

For Colorado-based candidates, in compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the minimum salary for this role is $135,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

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)

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