Principal Software Engineer

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, and Beaverton, OR, with additional offices in Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see 

Job Application Deadline: 12/31/2025

The Opportunity

Broker Tech builds products for the Convoy Platform at DAT, enabling brokers to match and execute shipments while they work seamlessly within their Transportation Management Systems. We partner with brokers to transform how they work, grow, and succeed by:

• Empowering Matching: Building smarter tools and visibility that boost broker match rates and strengthen carrier connections.
• Fueling Growth: Enabling brokers to expand through better pricing, new freight categories, and integrations.
• Encouraging Healthy Behaviors: Guiding brokers toward practices that protect our carrier network and ensure product quality.
• Ensuring Payments: Strengthening and automating broker payment processes to reduce risk and ensure reliability.
• Enhancing Communication: Creating unified, timely communication channels so brokers stay informed and engaged in real time.
• Enabling Ideal Experiences: Delivering seamless workflows leveraging APIs and webhooks between Convoy Platform and TMSs, while empowering brokers with self-service configuration and onboarding tools.

We're a smart, collaborative, and supportive group that values both technical excellence and team culture. We move quickly but thoughtfully, and we're looking for a strong technical leader to guide us into the next phase of scaling the Convoy Platform.

Candidate profile

As a Principal Engineer on Broker Tech, you'll be one of possibly two senior technical leaders guiding the org. This role is both hands-on and strategic: you'll write high-quality code, set engineering standards, and shape the long-term technical direction of our platform. You'll also work cross-org to elevate the Convoy Platform as a whole, influencing system architecture, integration strategy, and how we scale to meet evolving broker and platform needs.

This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical vision, cross-team collaboration, and mentorship.

What You'll Do

• Lead technical direction for Broker Tech, ensuring scalability, reliability, and seamless broker experiences.
• Drive cross-org collaboration with other engineering teams, shaping platform-wide standards and architecture.
• Introduce and champion best practices in design, coding, testing, observability, and performance.
• Mentor and elevate the team of 9 engineers, leading by example and fostering technical growth.
• Guide product evolution across a broad scope: payments, onboarding, admin roles, matched carrier data, integrations, broker communications, and beyond.
• Balance hands-on coding and architecture, ensuring alignment between tactical execution and strategic vision.
• Partner with product and design to deliver thoughtful, user-centric solutions that scale with our customers' businesses.

The Skills and Experience You'll Bring

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering simple, scalable solutions to complex problems.
• Deep experience with system design, distributed systems, and integrations.
• Experience designing and evolving public APIs with multiple customers.
• Strong technical judgment, able to balance short-term tradeoffs with long-term platform health.
• Experience guiding technical strategy at an org or platform level.
• A collaborative leader who builds trust, communicates clearly, and lifts others up.
• Passion for building products that power real-world businesses and remove friction for users.

Why Join Us

• Impact: You'll shape not just Broker Tech, but the Convoy Platform at large — a critical part of DAT's future.
• Culture: Join a team that's sharp, humble, and kind. We solve hard problems together, with humor and empathy.
• Growth: As one of two Principal Engineers in the org, you'll play a defining role in setting technical direction and mentoring the next generation of engineers.

Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.

For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We've been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado's 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

• 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
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

**This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**

For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $218, $274, target bonus.  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.

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