Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Shared Services
Company: Credit Acceptance
Location: Southfield
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
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!As a
Staff Software Engineer, you are a member of a cross-functional
agile development team that analyzes, designs, codes, tests and
delivers software features. A staff engineer has enough experience
to collaborate with business partners and stakeholders about the
business needs and processes with the ability to transform those
discussions into design and ultimately code. A staff engineer will
take on a technical lead role and lead the team through technical
requirements and challenges.Outcomes and Activities:
- This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to
an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required.
However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield,
Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
- 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
- Evolve and transform the design and architecture of
applications towards leading edge technologies and practices
- 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 and align technologies with the business process
- 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, including recommendations for
process improvement
- Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code
quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge
- Participate in the talent selection process
- Act as a mentor to guide and review the code, designs and
documentation of less experienced software engineers Competencies:
The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.
- Development: Develops solutions using standards and best
practices of the applications language. Writes code that implements
the design that is testable, extensible, efficient and
maintainable.
- Impact Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how
changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the
technical ecosystem.
- Solution Design: Ability to translate high level requirements
to create and implement designs that meet the needs of the
customer, are technically sound, maintainable and cost effective.
Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements. Ability to
design at both high and low levels of abstraction, understand
complex requirements and translate into understandable solutions.
Ability to accurately estimate based on requirements.
- Technical Domain: Have an understanding of the technical
domain, including the application architecture, design and data of
the application they support and systems to which it
interfaces.
- Facilitation Techniques: Organize, support and/or conduct
workshops, meetings, presentations specific to the objectives of
each, problem to be solve, and needs of the audience.Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or
closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of recent Java development experience
- Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a
team of software engineering talent across multiple
applications
- 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 rotationPreferred:
- Experience in cloud native architecture
- Experience with building and deploying scalable
microservices
- 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 experienceKnowledge 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
- Ability to foster strong relationships across the
organization
- Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging
technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed
learning and innovation in the day-to-day
- Experience and understanding of how to connect the work being
done and how it drives business value
- Ability to communicate complex technical information (both
verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership
Targeted Compensation: Base salary of $150,000+ with an annual
performance bonus planINDCSLP#zip#LI-RemoteOur Company Values:To be
successful in this role, Team Members need to be:
- Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on
solutions
- Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
- Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and
role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making
quality decisions
- Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
- Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and
effectively planning and priority settingExpectations:
- Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal
guidelines
- All other duties as assigned
- Attendance as required by departmentAdvice!We understand that
your career search may look different than others. Our hiring team
wants to make sure that this would be a fit not just for us, but
for you long term. If you are actively looking or starting to
explore new opportunities, send us your application! P.S.We have
great details around our stats, success, history and more. We're
proud of our culture and are happy to share why - let's
talk!Required degrees must have been earned at institutions of
Higher Education which are accredited by the Council for Higher
Education Accreditation or equivalent.Credit Acceptance is
dedicated to providing an inclusive environment for all. We are
proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and value a culturally
diverse workforce. We believe in ensuring all team members
demonstrate mutual respect for one another. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to protected characteristics like age, race, color, religion, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or
disability status.California Residents: Please click for the
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) notice regarding the
personal information Credit Acceptance may collect from you.Play
the video below to learn more about our Company culture.
Keywords: Credit Acceptance, Southfield , Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Shared Services, IT / Software / Systems , Southfield, Michigan
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