Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer, Consumer

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!

• 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 ​

• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple applications/systems
• Design and develop software and improve existing code to make it more efficient to detect bugs in the code (Sr. Staff)
• Write unit-tests and validate your software against acceptance criteria (Sr. Staff)
• Evolve and transform the design and architecture of applications towards leading edge technologies and practices (Sr. Staff)
• Author, apply and advocate for team coding, documenting and testing standards (Sr. Staff)
• Learn the business process domain to better support the business and align technologies with the business process (Sr. Staff)
• Lead code reviews and communicate application changes (Sr. Staff)
• Document code and projects so others can easily understand, maintain and support (Sr. Staff)
• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Read, write and review design documents (Sr. Staff)
• Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices, including recommendations for process improvement (Sr. Staff)
• Participate in the talent selection process (Sr. Staff)
• Act as a mentor to guide and review the code, designs and documentation of less experienced software engineers (Sr. Staff)

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Development: Develops solutions using standards and best practices. 
• Impact and Risk Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical/business ecosystem.
• Solution Design: 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 a deep understanding of the technical domain, including the system architecture, design and data of the systems 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 or comparable depth of experience
• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent across multiple software systems and applications
• Extensive experience in data modeling, design and messaging
• Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications
• Demonstrated ability to work with business partners, cross functional team members and coach and mentor experienced team members
• Expert understanding and use of multiple object-oriented programming languages and