Software Engineer IV, Max Digital

Overview

ACV is a technology company transforming the automotive industry. We hire people who share our passion, bring innovative ideas, and enjoy a collaborative atmosphere. ACV offers competitive compensation packages and learning and development opportunities to help you advance to the next level in your career. We invest in our people and technology to help our customers succeed, fostering a people-first mindset with a culture of growth and autonomy.

ACV Auctions Inc. (ACV) has revolutionized how dealers buy and sell cars online. 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. Our network of brands includes ACV Auctions, ACV Transportation, Clear Car, MAX Digital and ACV Capital within its Marketplace Products, as well as True
360 and Data Services.

At ACV we focus on the health, physical, financial, social and emotional wellness of our teammates and offer the following benefits:

• Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan
• Company-sponsored Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
• Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, paid sick leave as applicable by 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 law
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with opportunities to earn stock in the Company
• Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k)

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 and maintenance of C#, ASP.NET features and 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.

• 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 Postgre
  
  SQL or MySQL are also acceptable).
• Design and build complex systems that can scale rapidly with little maintenance, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• 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 extensible handler patterns for 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
• Own larger, complex initiatives end-to-end—from discovery and requirements through delivery and production support—driving alignment across engineering and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with software and production engineers to design scalable services, plan feature roll-out, and ensure high reliability and performance of our products.
• Design and develop systems across all major departments including but not limited to data, enterprise applications, and IT.
• Lead technical design and architecture decisions across multiple systems/services, and help establish standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Modify and develop custom software patterns as needed to solve highly complex software problems, and clearly document tradeoffs and long-term maintenance implications.
• Be accountable for the overall performance of products and/or services within a defined area of focus, including diagnosing production issues and driving improvements.
• Conduct code reviews, develop high-quality documentation, and build…