Principal Software Engineer
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Job description
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., * 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits & conditions
parental leave, paid time off, sick time, 401(k), 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
- Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
- 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
For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $218,000.000 - $274,000.00 + 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.
