Senior Software Engineer

Credit Acceptance • Baraga Township, MI

35d • Remote

About The Position

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. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member

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 Haves

• 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

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

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work
• Flexible work options including work from home, on site and hybrid positions
• Company provided technology packages for all Team Members
• An atmosphere that is collaborative, challenging, and filled with forward thinking Team Members
• Extensive growth opportunities as demonstrated by our track record of promoting internally
• Ongoing business training and career development opportunities
• Competitive market-based salary with bonus compensation, quarterly profit sharing and annual merit bonuses
• Generous PTO and holidays that include 28.5 total days during first full year of employment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees