Software Engineer I

About DAT

Job Application Deadline: 06/30/2026

The Opportunity

As an Frontend Software Engineer I, you'll work alongside experienced engineers to help build and maintain our customer-facing products. You'll contribute to real features that impact our users while developing your skills across the full frontend lifecycle. This role is a great fit for an early-career engineer who is curious, collaborative, and excited to learn how complex data and workflows get translated into intuitive interfaces — with plenty of support and mentorship along the way.

What You’ll Do

• Design and Development: Contribute to the design, building, and maintenance of performant, accessible, and responsive web applications using our core frontend stack and frameworks, with guidance from senior engineers.
• Component Ownership: Build and maintain UI components following established design system patterns, with attention to cross-browser compatibility and accessibility standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, UX designers, and engineers to translate requirements and design specs into production-ready interfaces.
• Quality Assurance: Write unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and develop good habits around code quality, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Observability: Learn and apply frontend monitoring practices using tools like Datadog to understand performance metrics and production health.
• Incident Management: Support the response and resolution of frontend-related production incidents under the guidance of more senior team members, and contribute to root cause analysis.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• 0–2 years of frontend development experience, including internships, coursework projects, or personal projects that demonstrate an ability to build and ship working software.
• Foundational knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript, with a willingness to deepen your understanding of modern language features and tooling.
• Some experience with at least one modern frontend framework such as Angular, React, or web components.
• Exposure to or curiosity about component libraries and design systems.
• Basic understanding of how frontend applications communicate with backend services via REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Awareness of or interest in cloud deployment concepts; prior exposure to AWS (e.g., CloudFront, S3) is a plus.
• Openness to learning containerization basics, including Docker, as part of a modern development workflow.
• Familiarity with or eagerness to learn frontend monitoring tools like Datadog.
• An emerging awareness of web performance, browser rendering, and accessibility (WCAG) principles.
• A collaborative, curious communicator who asks good questions and is receptive to feedback.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience — bootcamp graduates and self-taught engineers are welcome to apply.

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
• 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

*This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**

For Colorado-based candidates, in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this role is $85,000.00 - $118,000.00 + 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.

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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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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