Credit Acceptance
Website:
creditacceptance.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-acceptance
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Financial Services
Job details:
Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with 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 in the United States.
In this role, you will work as a dedicated member of a globally distributed team, partnering closely with business partners in the U.S. to design, build, and scale solutions that directly impact our customers and operations. While your legal employer will be our EoR partner, you will be fully integrated into our Credit Acceptance team for day-to-day work and collaboration.
The Staff Software Engineer, Data is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, building, and scaling cloud-based data platforms that support critical business insights and operations. This role partners across teams to deliver high-quality, reliable data solutions while driving architectural direction and engineering best practices. They bring deep expertise in data engineering, including pipeline design, data modeling, and modern cloud technologies. In addition to technical leadership, they mentor engineers, influence stakeholders, and ensure solutions align with business outcomes. Success in this role requires strong ownership, collaboration, and a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
Outcomes and Activities:
- This position will work remotely from India.
- 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
Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.
- Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer’s shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience.
- Engineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions.
- One Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively.
- Owner’s Mindset: Owner’s Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business.
Requirements:
- 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
Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to challenge the status quo and influence stakeholders to create innovative solutions
- Be collaborative with other team members, seeking a diversity of thought to meet business outcomes
- Ability to foster strong relationships across the organization
- Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
- Experience and understanding of how to connect the work being done and how it drives business value
- Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership
CTC Range: ₹ 37,15,614 - ₹ 54,49,568
Total Compensation (CTC): Final CTC will be shared during the offer stage and will include all compensation components in detail as per EoR vendor's structure.
Final compensation within the range is influenced by many factors including role-specific skills, depth and experience level, industry background, relevant education and certifications.
INDENGLP
This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EoR) partner in India.
- You will be legally employed in India through our EoR partner
- While your legal employer is the EoR partner, you will work full-time and be fully aligned to Credit Acceptance
- Your day-to-day work, responsibilities, and performance expectations will be consistent with our global team members
- You will receive locally compliant payroll, benefits, and statutory coverage through the EoR partner
Our Company Values:
To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:
- Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions.
- Respectful by collaborating and actively listening.
- Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions.
- Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage.
- Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting.
Expectations:
- Regularly overlap with U.S. business hours to support collaboration with global team members.
- Remain compliant with our policies, processes and guidelines
- All other duties as assigned
- Attendance as required by department
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