Staff Software Engineer - Fintech Platform

About DAT

Job Application Deadline: 01/31/2027

About DAT Outgo

We're a fast-growing team tackling a massive opportunity: the $800B US freight market. This industry comprises 1.6 million carriers, with 95% being small businesses operating 10 or fewer trucks. These hard-working business owners often face tight margins while being forced to rely on predatory financial products laden with exorbitant rates, hidden fees, and restrictive contracts.

At DAT Outgo, we're changing that. We're building an intelligent fintech platform from the ground up that truly understands the unique needs of trucking businesses. Our platform operates with radical transparency and fairness, optimizing cash flow to help truckers save more and grow their businesses.

Join our dynamic team at DAT in our mission to level the playing field and empower America's truckers with the financial tools they deserve.

About Us

The Fintech Platform engineering team is at the heart of revolutionizing financial services for truckers. We build robust, fault-tolerant systems that make real-time decisions and manage money flows with bank-grade reliability. Our technology transforms the accounts receivable process through intelligent automation and visualization, multiplying our operations team's effectiveness. For our customers, we craft intuitive, trustworthy applications that set a new standard for financial services.

Our modern tech stack is built on Go (golang) and TypeScript powered by AWS infrastructure. We leverage cutting-edge tools including Temporal, Postgres, LLMs  and Grafana to deliver exceptional results.

Our seasoned engineering team brings deep experience from both successful startups and leading enterprises. 

Here, you'll find a culture that values:

• Technical craft and engineering excellence
• Intellectual curiosity and continuous learning
• Strong team collaboration and camaraderie
• Individual autonomy and ownership

Candidate profile

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Fintech Platform team. This team is responsible for our ledger that supports multiple distinct fintech products, integrating with banking partners and lenders, and scaling our fintech platform to meet growing demand across multiple distinct fintech businesses.

You are someone who…

• Demonstrates pride, ownership, and accountability for your team's outcomes, and builds that same sense of ownership in the engineers you lead
• Shares opinions openly on what's working and what's not across the product, tech stack, and team processes, and creates the safety for your team to do the same
• Builds feedback loops into how the team works, coaching engineers to seek input early and often rather than waiting until the end
• Guides the team through speed vs quality tradeoffs, making the reasoning explicit so the right call is clear even under pressure
• Actively fosters a culture where every person can do their best work, and grows people toward the next step in their careers

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of combined experience in Software Engineering
• Experience working with payments systems
• Experience building and operating complex systems of record that cannot tolerate missing data
• Experience with cloud platforms and data systems (e.g. AWS, S3, Aurora Postgres) 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience

Bonus Skills

• Experience with double-entry accounting
• Experience with asset-based lending
• Experience with marketplaces
• Experience with banking integrations

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 Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $198,000.00 - $246,000.00 + 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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