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Credit Acceptance · 4 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Data

Credit Acceptance is an award-winning company known for its strong workplace culture and is one of the largest used car finance companies in the nation. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Data to design, build, and scale data pipelines, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to the continuous improvement of their data engineering practices.

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Responsibilities

Design, build, and scale data pipelines across a variety of source systems and streams, including internal, third-party, and cloud-based platforms
Interface with cross-functional teams to extract, load, and transform data using cloud-native data engineering principles
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop efficient strategies for data acquisition and integration
Write unit-tests and validate your software against acceptance criteria
Evolve and transform the design and architecture of applications towards leading edge technologies and practices
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 and align technologies with the business process
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, including recommendations for process improvement
Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge
Participate in the talent selection process

Qualification

Cloud data platformsData engineering principlesProgramming languagesData modelingApache SparkAWS data servicesAgile/SCRUMData governanceCoachingMentoringCommunication skillsCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience, with recent experience building on cloud data platforms
Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of data engineering talent
Strong understanding of one or more programming languages commonly used in data engineering (e.g., Python, Java, Scala)
Practical experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall
Experience designing scalable batch and streaming pipelines
Strong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and lakehouse principles
Experience with data governance, lineage, and quality frameworks
Experience working on mission-critical enterprise-class applications
Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced team members

Preferred

Expertise in Apache Spark
Strong working knowledge of Databricks (e.g., Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, DLT, Auto Loader)
Hands-on experience with AWS data services (e.g., S3, Glue, Lambda, MSK)
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

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Credit Acceptance is an indirect finance company that helps eligible consumers restart financially.

H1B Sponsorship

Credit Acceptance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (49)
2024 (48)
2023 (15)
2022 (30)
2021 (24)
2020 (16)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.85B
2025-11-13Debt Financing· $500M
2025-02-13Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2024-12-20Post Ipo Debt· $300M

Leadership Team

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Kenneth Booth
Chief Executive Officer and President
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