Senior Software Engineer, Digital Vehicle Marketplace
Credit Acceptance Corporation, New York, United States
Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.
Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success. Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work-life balance. We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions. We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!
Outcomes and Activities:
- This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required.
- Design and develop software and improve existing code to make it more efficient to detect bugs in the code.
- Write unit-tests and validate your software against acceptance criteria.
- Author, apply and advocate for team coding, documenting and testing standards.
- Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple applications.
- Learn the business process domain to better support the business.
- Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions.
- Lead code reviews and communicate application changes.
- Document code and projects so others can easily understand, maintain and support.
- Debug the problems which arise in production and propose effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications.
- Read, write and review design documents.
- Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices.
- Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge.
- Participate in the talent selection process.
- Guide and review the code, designs and documentation of less experienced software engineers.
Competencies:
- Development: Develops solutions using standards and best practices.
- Impact and Risk Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications.
- Solution Design: Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements and design at both high and low levels of abstraction.
- Technical Domain: Have a deep understanding of the technical domain, including the system architecture, design and data of the systems they support.
- Facilitation Techniques: Organize, support and/or conduct workshops, meetings, presentations specific to the objectives of each.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience.
- Strong understanding and use of one or more object-oriented programming languages and design patterns.
- Practical experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall.
- Practical experience in data modeling, design and messaging.
- Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced team members.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.
Preferred:
- Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent.
- Advanced understanding of IDEs and ability to leverage advanced features.
- In-depth usage and creation of application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks in their particular field.
- Experience in API security, analytics, throttling, caching, logging, request and response modifications.
- Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger or similar tools desirable.
- Ability to use DDL to create database objects and relationships, construct advanced queries, and optimize query performance.
- Financial services industry experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to challenge the status quo and influence stakeholders to create innovative solutions.
- Be collaborative with other team members, seeking a diversity of thought to meet business outcomes.
- Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members.
- Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership.
Benefits:
- Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits.
Our Company Values:
- Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions.
- Respectful by collaborating and actively listening.
- Insightful by cultivating innovation and making quality decisions.
- Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage.
- Earnest by taking accountability and effectively planning.
Expectations:
- Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Attendance as required by department.
Credit Acceptance is dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive working environment for all. As part of our Culture of Compliance, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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