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DAT | Frontline Engineering Manager, Senior

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HR standards

64/100

needs work

Title ↔ description

84/100

solid

Reads as

Engineering Manager

100% confident

What this role officially is

software manager — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software managers oversee the acquisition and development of software systems in order to provide support to all organisational units. They also monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organisation.

Also known as: applications manager, software managers, ICT applications manager, software applications manager, soft manager

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Engineering Manager| Seattle, Portland, Denver | Hybrid 2-3 days/week | Full-time | $192k - $261k

I'm hiring for a frontline EM building the automation and trust layer for freight pricing, matching, onboarding, and settlement.Lead 1-3 teams (FTE + contractors), own delivery end-to-end, ~8 yrs exp typical. I expect everyone in my eng org (myself included!) to be technical and be able to help unblock the team, though your day-to-day wont be in the code.
Technical here means you can/will get into the code yourself and architecture reviews and maintain technical credibility with our junior to staff/principal level engineers. These are not player-coach roles, but these are frontline roles that need that technical capability.
Interesting problems: trust/fraud at marketplace scale; legacy-data-meets-modern-stack; and all kinds of problems that come with powering hundreds of thousands of load/shipment postings every day.
AI/LLM: We are leaned in, but still hold humans responsible for what they push and expect everyone to review and understand llm output before asking other humans to look at a thing.
Culture: I am deeply familiar with Google's project oxygen/aristotle and am building a culture where our teams can do great work with minimal bs.
Location: Must be local to one of our three locations (Seattle, Portland, Denver).
Primary Tech: Node/TS, React, GraphQL, Kafka/redpanda, k8s, AWS, etc
https://careers.dat.com/jobs/?gh_jid=6139594004
Reach out directly at [email protected]; I am the hiring manager for these roles. I'll junk anything that smells of AI.
My profile and background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvin-luu/

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Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 4 points (from 68 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.