Southfield, Michigan, USA Hybrid

Credit Acceptance is hiring a Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 5 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

Nice to Have

  • Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent
  • Advanced understanding of IDEs, have the ability to navigate through them quickly and leverage advanced features to improve your performance
  • In-depth usage and creation of application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks in their particular field: JSON, Rest/SOAP based Web Services, JUnit, Jenkins and Bitbucket preferred
  • 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

Benefits

  • 401(K) match
  • adoption assistance
  • parental leave
  • tuition reimbursement
  • comprehensive medical/dental/vision

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Additional Information

  • Candidates who reside in the following major metropolitan areas may be eligible for a premium on top of the posted range based on their specific zone: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego.
  • Required degrees must have been earned at institutions of Higher Education which are accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or equivalent.
Required Skills
Data ModelingAnalyticsCaching
About company
Credit Acceptance
Credit Acceptance is one of the largest used car finance companies nationally, providing auto loans to consumers. The company has a stable financial history and focuses on a world-class culture shaped by dedicated team members.
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Job Details
Category backend
Posted 5 months ago