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DAT Freight & AnalyticsDAT Freight & AnalyticsDenver, CO

Senior Software Engineer

Leads design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services on AWS, driving best practices, mentorship, and observability with tools like Node.js, Kubernetes, and Datadog. Requires 5+ years experience, deep AWS and Node.js expertise, and bachelor's degree.

143k – 183k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Technical Leadership: Lead the design and implementation end to end of large-scale, high-performance backend systems and an intuitive user experience.
  • Best Practices: Drive the adoption of modern software development practices, including automated testing, conduct code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Cloud Architecture: Architect, maintain and monitor robust, scalable and reliable services on AWS, leveraging services like EKS, EMS (Kafka), and S3.
  • Mentorship: Mentor other engineers and provide technical guidance to elevate the skill level of the entire team.
  • Incident Management: Lead the response and resolution for complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, DevOps, and UX to deliver timely, high-quality and performing end-to-end solutions.
  • Observability: Design and implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting strategies with Datadog to ensure the health, reliability, and performance of production systems.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

  • At least 5 years of experience in software development with significant experience as a software engineer or higher and a track record of delivering complex, scalable systems.
  • Deep expertise in Node.js and the related ecosystem.
  • Extensive experience designing, deploying, and managing applications on AWS.
  • Expertise with containerization and orchestration, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency in user interface frameworks such as Angular, React and/or web components.
  • Proficiency in setting up and using Datadog for monitoring, logging, and observability.
  • Strong understanding of microservice architecture, event-driven systems, and distributed systems design patterns.
  • Expertise with relational and NoSQL databases, and messaging systems like Kafka.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences.
  • A proven ability to mentor and lead technical projects with high ambiguity.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Compensation

For Colorado-based candidates, salary range is $143,000 - $183,000 + target bonus.

Skills

Node.jsAWSDockerKubernetesDatadogKafkaAngularReactMicroservicesCI/CD
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