Team Lead, Software Engineer - Data

ACV • Buffalo, NY

18h • $123,000 - $154,000 • Onsite

About The Position

ACV is a technology company that has revolutionized how dealers buy and sell cars online, transforming the automotive industry. ACV Auctions Inc. (ACV) has applied innovation and user-designed, data-driven applications and solutions. We are building the most trusted and efficient digital marketplace with data solutions for sourcing, selling and managing used vehicles with transparency and comprehensive insights that were once unimaginable. We are disruptors of the industry and we want you to join us on our journey.

At ACV we focus on the Health, Physical, Financial, Social and Emotional Wellness of our Teammates and, to support this, we offer:
Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan
Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave law, 6 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave as required by applicable law or regulation
Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company
Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k)

Requirements

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
• 0–2 years of people management experience preferred, including mentoring, developing engineers, and running effective Agile/sprint ceremonies
• 5+ years hands-on production experience programming in Python preferred
• 2-4+ years of experience working with Terraform/Infrastructure as Code concepts
• 3-5 years of active experience building, maintaining, and optimizing automated pipelines
• 2-4 years of hands-on experience applying domain driven design principles to architect and build complex systems
• Experience architecting and designing systems from the ground up, including making pragmatic decisions for scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Experience with in-memory data processing, database monitoring and diagnostic tools, preferably DataDog.
• Strong experience integrating 3rd-party APIs, implementing authentication & authorization and developing asynchronous data flows.
• Strong experience developing unit and integration-tests, and setting expectations for test strategy and coverage
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast paced global team environment.
• Deep practical experience operating within and leading Agile development environments, with a strong understanding of how to run effective sprints and agile ceremonies

Responsibilities

• Directly manage a small team of software engineers responsible for VIN Decoder domain, owning their performance, growth, and day-to-day engagement.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide actionable and constructive feedback, and map out clear career progression paths for your direct reports.
• Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe team culture where engineers are empowered to innovate and take ownership.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, coaching, and strong design/code review feedback, helping raise overall engineering quality.
• Facilitate effective communication across engineering, product, and business teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
• Actively participate in feature development, code reviews, and technical problem-solving across the team's core services.
• Own scrum agile methodologies within the team. Facilitate and lead core Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming/refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Drive the technical vision for your team’s domain, making critical decisions on multi-cloud infrastructure, in-memory technologies, and overall system architecture.
• Drive predictable execution against team commitments, balancing delivery, quality, and operational excellence.
• Establish clear priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans aligned with organizational objectives.
• Monitor and improve key engineering and business metrics related to system reliability, delivery performance, and customer outcomes.
• Ensure software solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with ACV engineering standards.
• Architect, develop, and maintain robust Python backend services operating seamlessly across a complex multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Partner closely with Product Managers to define technical roadmaps, scope projects, translate epics into actionable user stories, and deliver features on time.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Identify technical, operational, and delivery risks and proactively drive mitigation plans.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders across ACV to improve development practices, operational processes, and platform capabilities.
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan
• Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
• Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave law, 6 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave as required by applicable law or regulation
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company
• Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree