Who we are:
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 include ACV Auctions, ACV Transportation, ClearCar, MAX Digital and ACV Capital within its Marketplace Products, as well as, True360 and Data Services.
ACV Auctions in Chennai, India are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As we expand our platform, we're offering a wide range of exciting opportunities across various roles in corporate, operations, and product and technology. Our global product and technology organization spans product management, engineering, data science, machine learning, DevOps and program leadership. What unites us is a deep sense of customer centricity, calm persistence in solving hard problems, and a shared passion for innovation. If you're looking to grow, lead, and contribute to something larger than yourself, we'd love to have you on this journey. Let's build something extraordinary together. Join us in shaping the future of automotive!
Who we are looking for:
ACV Auctions is looking for a Software Engineer to join our MAX Engineering team and work on our SaaS Product, MAX Digital. The position will focus on backend development & maintenance of C#, ASP.NET features & services hosted in AWS and utilizing SQL Server.
The ideal candidate has a strong background and proven track record of architecting and designing enterprise applications in C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server, a penchant for high quality code, and a team minded approach to development.
What you will do:
- Develop APIs, services, background workers, and MVC web applications using C#, ASP.NET (including modern .NET), and an SQL database (SQL Server preferred; other relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL are also acceptable).
- Design and build systems that can scale with minimal maintenance, with a focus on reliability and performance.
- Design, build, and maintain Kafka-based event processing services, including consuming, deserializing, validating, persisting, and reacting to events to drive downstream workflows.
- Design and implement effective service/product interfaces, including third-party API integrations, and contribute to extensible patterns for adding new integrations.
- Develop and maintain application data models, including writing and tuning complex SQL queries, optimizing indexes and performance, and designing schemas that reliably support application workflows
- Collaborate with software and production engineers to design scalable services, plan feature roll-out, and support reliability and performance of our products.
- Design and develop systems across departments including (but not limited to) data, enterprise applications, and IT.
- Modify and develop software patterns as needed to solve complex software problems, partnering with senior engineers when appropriate.
- Be accountable for the performance of products and/or services within a defined area of focus, including participating in diagnosing production issues and driving improvements.
- Participate in code reviews, develop clear documentation, and help build and maintain test suites for your products.
- Help identify and prioritize technical debt, and contribute to planning features and iterative improvements.
- Lead and complete software projects with limited guidance, including breaking down work, communicating progress, and escalating risks early.
- Participate in team discussions to define requirements for new and current products, including event contracts and data requirements.
- Provide technical support for applications within the technology portfolio, including AWS-hosted workloads and services.
- Respond to and troubleshoot complex problems efficiently and effectively, collaborating with others when needed.
- Act as a mentor for less experienced engineers through pairing and day-to-day support.
- Handle multiple competing priorities in an agile, fast-paced environment while maintaining delivery quality.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
What you will need:
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
- BS degree in Computer Science preferred or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum 4 years of experience building SaaS web applications using ASP.NET, C# and JavaScript and/or Python (6+ years desirable).
- Experience maintaining and extending an existing codebase, adapting to pre-existing patterns and tracing the code’s path of execution.
- Experience integrating 3rd-party APIs, implementing authentication & authorization and developing asynchronous data flows.
- Experience publishing and consuming Kafka events, including building reliable event-driven workflows and handling common delivery semantics (ordering, retries, idempotency).
- Experience developing unit and integration-tests.
- Experience integrating with cloud service (AWS), specifically: SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ElasticSearch, Docker / Containers.
- Experience working with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
- Experience with build & deployment automation (CI/CD).
- Containerization, orchestration (k8s) & serverless deployment scenarios.
- SQL programming and data-layer development experience.
- Minimum 4 years of experience working with continuous integration and build tools.
- Expert in version control systems.
- Strong software engineering tooling skills and helps drive adoption for new tools and tooling standards.
- Strong understanding of release, builds, testing and the SDLC.
- Strong at debugging distributed systems using distributed tracing and other common tools.
- Top notch communication skills.
- Experience contributing to system architecture and design discussions (with guidance as needed).
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Our Values
Trust & Transparency | People First | Positive Experiences | Calm Persistence | Never Settling
At ACV, we are committed to an inclusive culture in which every individual is welcomed and empowered to celebrate their true selves. We achieve this by fostering a work environment of acceptance and understanding that is free from discrimination. ACV is committed to being an equal opportunity employer regardless of sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires reasonable accommodation, please let us know.
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