Senior Software Engineer – Broker Tech

WHAT WE DO

Empowering Matching: Building smarter tools and visibility that boost broker match rates and strengthen carrier connections Fueling Growth: Enabling brokers to expand through better pricing, new freight categories, and integrations

Encouraging Healthy Behaviors: Guiding brokers toward practices that protect our carrier network and ensure product quality Ensuring Payments: Strengthening and automating broker payment processes to reduce risk and ensure reliability

Enhancing Communication: Creating unified, timely communication channels so brokers stay informed and engaged in real time Enabling Ideal Experiences: Delivering seamless workflows leveraging APIs and webhooks between Convoy Platform and TMSs, while empowering brokers with self-service configuration and onboarding tools

HANDS-ON DEVELOPMENT: Write, test, and deploy production-quality code; establish code review and documentation standards Implement message-driven workflows (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and reusable integration components Improve the code structure and architecture as you develop new features

TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP: Be the technical lead for projects, contributing to the planning, design, development, deployment, and maintenance of product features — you will drive design and delivery, not people management Ensure that technical and inter-team dependencies are understood and accounted for

COLLABORATION & GROWTH: Partner with product and business stakeholders to clarify requirements in a complex domain Mentor junior developers and ensure that established codebase standards are adhered to

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience Production operational competence: observability (logs/metrics/traces), incident response, root-cause analysis, and on-call readiness Experience with distributed systems fundamentals: consistency tradeoffs, failure modes, timeouts, retries, and graceful degradation

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Strong proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js including API design, performance, and debugging in production

Familiarity with frontend development in React

Proficiency with datastores (SQL strongly preferred, NoSQL a plus) including schema design, migrations, and query performance

Hands-on experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and cloud-native deployments (Docker/Kubernetes on AWS/Azure/GCP)

Ability to own architecture and code end-to-end in a high ownership, low process environment

Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

BONUS SKILLS

Experience designing and operating microservices in production: service boundaries, versioning, backward compatibility, and reliability

GraphQL experience (schema design, performance, caching) or strong REST and contract discipline

Experience working in a CI/CD environment: automated builds, safe deploys, rollbacks, feature flags, and environment promotion

Background in transportation, logistics, or complex B2B integrations

Compensation: $155,000 – $211,000 base salary + 10% target bonus

Health & Wellness: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance Short- and Long-term disability sick leave Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts Employee Assistance Program

Time Off: Flexible Vacation Time 10 additional paid holidays per calendar year Parental Leave

Financial: 401k matching (immediately vested) Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Additional Perks: Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office) Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness programs Employee Resource Groups Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment Collaborative and supportive team culture Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry