Credit Acceptance · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$209K/yr - $306K/yr
15+ years expCredit Acceptance is an award-winning company recognized for its workplace culture and success in the used car finance industry. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical and architectural initiatives within the data engineering organization, ensuring successful delivery of data solutions and fostering a strong engineering culture.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Provide technical thought leadership that connects and aligns business strategy with success
Champion key technology and architecture decision across the data portfolio for current and future success
Hands on and role model how engineers should think and work, foster a strong engineering culture and discipline including “show and tell”
Collaborate both with the data team and cross engineering on technology and architecture strategy and decision
Exemplify technical innovation and contribute to critical system design, implementation and operation success
Formulate technology and architecture decision frameworks that embed engineering disciplines
Become an expert in the business process domain to better support the business and align technologies with the business outcomes
Work with the engineering leadership team to develop and execute on the company’s technical and business strategy
Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify the impact of a change across multiple applications and systems
Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions
Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build and maintain best in class software systems
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
Grow talent by participating in hiring and mentoring team members
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
Minimum 15 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience
Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of data technology and architecture
Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices with experience building modern data platform, product and solutions
Expert understanding and use of modern data technology end 2 end including but not limited to source system, data integration, data acquisition, data ingestion, data transformation, data aggregation, data governance, business intelligence, data warehouse, data lake, NoSQL, object storage, streaming etc
Extensive experience with building and driving adoption of software engineering best practices
Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures
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
In-depth experience with building big data real time production system that delivers business success
Well versed in delivery mechanisms such as Agile
Preferred
Financial services or FinTech industry experience
Benefits
401(K) match
Adoption assistance
Parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Comprehensive medical/ dental/vision
Many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work
Company
Credit Acceptance
Credit Acceptance is an indirect finance company that helps eligible consumers restart financially.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.85B2025-11-13Debt Financing· $500M
2025-02-13Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2024-12-20Post Ipo Debt· $300M
Leadership Team
Kenneth Booth
Chief Executive Officer and President
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