Software Engineer IV, Data

Role Description

If you are looking for a career at a dynamic company with a people-first mindset and a deep culture of growth and autonomy, ACV is the right place for you! Competitive compensation packages and learning and development opportunities, ACV has what you need to advance to the next level in your career. We will continue to raise the bar every day by investing in our people and technology to help our customers succeed. We hire people who share our passion, bring innovative ideas to the table, and enjoy a collaborative atmosphere.

What you will do:

• Leading a team of software engineers to architect, build, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
• Drive the technical vision for your team’s domain, making critical decisions on multi-cloud infrastructure, in-memory technologies, and overall system architecture.
• Architect, develop, and maintain robust Python backend services operating seamlessly across a complex multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Enact best practices for the team to follow.
• Directly manage a small team of software engineers, owning their performance, growth, and day-to-day engagement.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide actionable and constructive feedback, and map out clear career progression paths for your direct reports.
• Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe team culture where engineers are empowered to innovate and take ownership.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, coaching, and strong design/code review feedback, helping raise overall engineering quality.
• Own scrum agile methodologies within the team. Facilitate and lead core Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming/refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner closely with Product Managers to define technical roadmaps, scope projects, translate epics into actionable user stories, and deliver features on time.
• Translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and align engineering efforts with broader company objectives.
• Collaborate with software and production engineers to design scalable services, plan feature roll-out, and ensure high reliability and performance of our products.
• Participate in on-call rotation.
• You will need to maintain standard Eastern Time (ET) working hours to ensure seamless collaboration with your team and direct reports.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 3+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, or acting as a formal Tech Lead for a team of software engineers.
• 7+ years of experience programming in Python.
• 5+ years of experience with Cloud platforms preferably in AWS or GCP.
• 5+ years of experience working with Terraform/Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• 5+ years work with continuous integration and build tools.
• Experience architecting and designing systems from the ground up, including making pragmatic decisions for scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Experience with in-memory data processing, database monitoring and diagnostic tools, preferably Data Dog.
• Experience with Domain Driven Design.
• Strong experience integrating 3rd-party APIs, implementing authentication & authorization and developing asynchronous data flows.
• Strong experience developing unit and integration-tests, and setting expectations for test strategy and coverage.
• Proficiency in SQL query writing and optimization.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced global team environment.
• Deep practical experience operating within and leading Agile development environments, with a strong understanding of how to run effective sprints and agile ceremonies.

Benefits

• Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan.
• Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance.
• Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance.
• Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave law, 6 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave as required by applicable law or regulation.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company.
• Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k).

Company Description

ACV is a technology company that has revolutionized how dealers buy and sell cars online. We are transforming the automotive industry. ACV Auctions Inc. (ACV), has applied innovation and user-designed, data-driven applications and solutions. We are building the most trusted and efficient digital marketplace with data solutions for sourcing, selling and managing used vehicles with transparency and comprehensive insights that were once unimaginable. We are disruptors of the industry and we want you to join us on our journey. Our network of brands includes ACV Auctions, ACV Transportation, ClearCar, MAX Digital and ACV Capital within its Marketplace Products, as well as, True360 and Data Services.