Credit Acceptance
Director of Software Engineering, Platform Services
USA - Remote · Director
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About the role
- Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company recognized both locally and nationally across multiple workplace categories.
- Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated team members who are driven to succeed as professionals individually and together as a team.
- Backed by a strong product, exceptional people, and a stable financial foundation, we've grown into a leading provider of used and new car financing across the country.
Responsibilities
- Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose.
- Train team members and focus on developing talent
- Performance Manage by ensuring accountability and driving results
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in highly technical roles in development or enterprise services, at large organizations or innovative startups
- Track record of delivering internal developer tooling, developer platforms or shared engineering services that were adopted by other engineering teams.
- Experience leading the adoption of AI-assisted software development at scale, including coding assistants, agentic development workflows, evaluation, and the guardrails required to release generated code.
- Proven ability to consolidate duplicated capabilities into a single supported platform, including the migration and decommissioning work required.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with C-Level leaders, conveying complex information in a timely and easily understood way to all levels of the organization.
- Knowledge and Skills:
- Working knowledge of the modern developer toolchain, including source control and code review workflows, continuous integration, containers, infrastructure as code, and developer portal or service catalog products.
- Proven ability to think strategically, align technical initiatives with business objectives, and formulate a team's technical strategy and roadmap in partnership with other teams.
- Define the company's approach to AI-assisted and specification-driven development, including coding assistants, agent development frameworks, and the standards and guardrails required to release their output safely.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with agent development frameworks, model access layers or other AI platform capabilities
- Background in a regulated industry, or working closely with security, audit and compliance functions
- Working knowledge of the financial services industry, loan origination systems, web-based applications, and the automotive industry
- BS/MS in Computer Science, engineering/technical degree, MBA preferred
Skills
- An automation mindset that strives to reduce manual interventions wherever relevant.
- Strong executive presence and ability to advance ideas and initiatives, keeping the customer and the company's best interest in mind.
Compensation
- A competitive base salary range from $208,761 - $306,182.
- This position is eligible for an annual variable bonus of cash and equity, between 20 - 60%.
- Final compensation within the range is influenced by many factors including role-specific skills, depth and experience level, industry background, relevant education and certifications.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work
- To create an environment where people do their best work, we focus on the dimensions of Organizational Health.
Company info
- 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.
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