Staff Software Engineer

• You are a Staff Engineer who builds


• Hand you a problem no one at DAT has solved yet and you stand up a proof of concept in days, put it in front of real users, and let what you learn decide what happens next


• You are pragmatic: you would rather deliver customer value in weeks than polish something no one asked for


• You are comfortable with ambiguity and limited direction, and you do your best work partnering across teams to turn a promising idea into something that ships


• You understand your customers, including the brokers and integrators who increasingly build with AI coding assistants, and you design for how they actually work


• Working proofs of concept delivered early, with the ones that prove out taken to production


• Third-party integrators, including those building with AI coding assistants, can build, test, and troubleshoot against DAT APIs without engineering hand-holding


• Documentation, API specifications, and examples that consistently produce good results when integrators use AI tools


• One or more SDKs that reduce the effort for partners to integrate with DAT


• Production-grade API logging and monitoring that gives Product, Engineering, and Customer Support a shared, trustworthy view of integration health


• Light, practical guidelines applied to our customer-facing APIs, starting with new integration surfaces such as shipment ingest


• Effective knowledge-sharing and mentorship across engineering teams


• Build proofs of concept for developer experience and platform capabilities that have not been solved at DAT before, and take the ones that prove out to production


• Execute against our established architectures, refining them where they need it, and partner across Integrations, Product, Support, and Engineering to drive impact


• Design, build, and maintain SDKs and developer tooling in TypeScript, treating integrators as customers


• Build documentation, OpenAPI specifications, and examples that work well when integrators use AI coding assistants, and learn how our customers actually use AI so you can make them successful


• Design and build API logging and monitoring that gives teams visibility into how integrations behave in production


• Help shape lightweight governance for our customer-facing APIs (consistency, versioning, authentication, error handling, and deprecation), applied through an abstraction layer between our internal services and integrators


• Anticipate and communicate roadblocks before they require escalation, and align stakeholders across teams on shared direction


• Reduce toil and improve the reliability, cost, and performance of our integration services


• Use AI-assisted development in your own work and share what works with your teammates


• Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and guide others in doing the same


• Participate in design and code reviews; write and maintain technical documentation


• Review functional requirements, analyze their impact on schedule and software design, and translate business needs into technical specifications


• Mentor engineers on and beyond your team


• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in API platforms and developer experience

Benefits

• Remote/hybrid flexibility


• Parental leave


• Wellness allowance


• Career development paths


• Immediate 401(k) matching


• Stock purchase program


• Mental health support


• FSA/HSA options


• Life insurance


• 20 days PTO from day one, plus 10 paid holidays annually


• Leadership training, mentorship programs, education reimbursement & industry certifications


• Performance bonuses & annual merit increases


• Premium health coverage, plus dental & vision

Practical experience with design principles and patterns, and strong analytical and problem-solving skillsExperience building and maintaining SDKs or client libraries (strongly preferred)Familiarity with freight, logistics, or TMS ecosystems (a plus)Expertise in REST API design and the surrounding practices: OpenAPI specifications, versioning, authentication and authorization, and backward compatibilityExperience with Scrum/Agile SDLC and CI/CDBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experienceExperience with logging, monitoring, and observability for distributed systemsExperience with microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or Google CloudKnowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including event-driven, EDI, and webhook-based integrations (a plus)A track record of taking ideas from prototype to productionHands-on experience with AI-assisted development, and an understanding of how less technical integrators use AI tools to build against APIs (a plus)Demonstrated history of leading complex, multi-team technical initiativesOutstanding interpersonal and written communication skills; adept at working with professionals from a wide range of disciplinesDemonstrated experience designing and operating APIs consumed by external developers or partners8+ years of experience in software development, with deep backend and full-stack experience in TypeScript and Node.js