Director, Software Engineering - Remote

DriveTime • Bentonville, AR

3d • Remote

About The Position

DriveTime Family of Brands is the largest privately owned used car sales finance & servicing company in the nation, headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Dallas, Texas. They aim to create opportunities and improve lives by focusing on placing the right customer in the right vehicle on the right terms, on their path to ownership. The family of brands includes DriveTime, Bridgecrest, and SilverRock, utilizing technology and over two decades of industry knowledge to redefine vehicle purchasing, financing, and protection. As Director, Software Engineering, this role involves wearing a variety of hats within the Bridgecrest/DriveTime/SilverRock family. It is suited for an individual who thrives in a rapidly changing environment and sees change as an opportunity for growth. This is a technical role where you will be in code daily, researching the codebase to create designs, reviewing PRs, assisting engineers, and responding to issues, though not coding on a regular basis. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided.

Requirements

• 10+ year’s experience in the Software Engineering discipline with leadership responsibilities
• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or similar field or equivelant work experience
• Pragmatic familiarity with industry recognized enterprise software patterns & principals
• Previous in depth hands on experience with C# .NET
• Working knowledge of the capabilities available amongst a large scale cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc...)
• Experience leveraging AI for code gen and employing AI throughout the engineering SDLC
• Working knowledge of a BPM platform for business rules evaluation, workflows and UI screens
• GraphQL design and implementation experience

Responsibilities

• Acting strategic & technical liaison within a given line of business (track) of the Bridgecrest/DriveTime/SilverRock family
• Leader of leaders within the Bridgecrest/DriveTime/SilverRock organizations-- mentorship and growth of your teams is top priority
• Navigating innovative and adaptive personalities across the organization -- when to support the change and when to compromise
• Identify execution opportunities within the teams of your given track in coordination with your Product counterpart, following that up with the guidance and support needed within your teams to capitalize on those opportunities
• Ensure technical decisions taking place within the track are aligned with the larger company roadmap and vision
• Foster an environment of collaboration, transparency, accountability, & teamwork amongst your track
• Company advocate for your teams and track -- what does your track need to be successful?
• Supporting your Software Engineering Managers as they and their teams navigate system design in collaboration with architecture, peers, and other
• Working with our recruiting department to build high performing teams through candidate screenings and interviews
• Staying connected to your teams; ensuring they feel valued at Bridgecrest/DriveTime/SilverRock each and every day!
• Continue to advance our engineering practices by driving responsible AI adoption throughout the SDLC
• Build a positive and transparent relationship with your Product peers
• Design and lead implementation of business value aligned software leveraging GraphQL, Segment, Braze, Pega and front-end technologies
• Responsible for creating software technical designs, and ensuring low-level designs and implementation are aligned to it
• Researching our codebase to create designs
• Reviewing PRs
• Assisting engineers
• Assisting responding to issues
• Strategically identify what you want to change and improve in your teams' execution and work towards it

Benefits

• Work From Home
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (DriveTime Family of Brands covers a sizable amount of insurance premiums)
• 401(K)
• Company paid life insurance policy
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Growth Opportunities (roughly over 1,000 employees promoted year over year)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness Program (includes self-guided coaching and journeys, cash incentives and discounts on your medical premiums)
• Competitive pay
• Paid Time Off (wellness days, holidays, and YOU time for full-time roles; vacation time for part-timers)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director