Senior Software Engineer - Golang

At Credit Acceptance, we are building on the foundation of a successful business while investing in the future through technology, data, AI, and continuous improvement. As we continue to evolve, our Team Members play an active role in improving experiences, driving meaningful change, and shaping the future of our business. We foster an environment where people are empowered to contribute ideas, develop their careers, make an impact, and help lead our continued transformation.

Our Engineering teams are helping shape the future of Credit Acceptance through innovation. Team Members collaborate across the organization to solve complex challenges, build impactful solutions, challenge the status quo, and support informed business decisions. We value curiosity, continuous learning, and new ideas from people who are passionate about driving modernization and meaningful business impact.

• Design and develop software and improve existing code to make it more efficient to detect bugs in the code
• Write unit-tests and validate your software against acceptance criteria
• 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
• 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
• Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge
• Participate in the talent selection process
• Guide and review the code, designs and documentation of less experienced software engineers

• →Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• →7+ years of professional software development experience.
• →Strong proficiency in Golang and solid object-oriented programming skills.
• →Practical experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall.
• →Practical experience in data modeling, design and messaging.
• →Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications.
• →Proven experience designing, building, and scaling high-load microservices and APIs using modern architectural principles and design patterns.
• →Proven track record of leading feature development from requirements and documentation to implementation and production rollout, while coordinating effectively across teams.
• →Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in working closely with product management to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• →Comfortable working autonomously while coordinating effectively with peers and technical leadership.
• →Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced team members.
• →Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and support production systems as needed.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proficiency in Go (Golang) or experience with other high-performance languages like Kotlin, Rust, C#, C++ or similar.
• Experience transitioning systems from monolithic to microservice architecture.
• Strong database tuning and query optimization skills for both PostgreSQL and Oracle.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus) and understanding of SRE best practices.

• 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
• 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
• Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership

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

• Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
• All other duties as assigned
• Attendance as required by department