Software Engineer IV, Data

ACV Auctions is a technology company revolutionizing the automotive industry by providing innovative data-driven applications for buying and selling cars online. They are seeking a Software Engineer IV to lead and mentor a team of engineers, architect scalable software systems, and ensure alignment between technical execution and business strategy.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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