Sr. Software Engineer, Team Lead (.NET), DMS Service​/Scheduling​/F&I

Are you tired of not being challenged, not having a voice, or having to work with outdated technologies? Do you want to be a direct contributor in a company that is an innovation leader and has the awards to prove it?

Drive Centric is the premier customer relationship management (CRM) and AI marketing company that connects automotive dealerships to customers in innovative, award-winning ways.

We're seeking an exceptional software engineer to lead our Dealer Management System Service/Scheduling/F&I team. What do we look for in a technical leader? Extreme ownership. Relentless problem solving. A positive, customer-focused attitude. Calm under pressure. Strong technical judgment. A diverse set of skills and experiences. A commitment to excellence. Lead by example.

• Perform as a technical contributor 60% of the time, with 20% focus on personnel management, and 20% on maturing our DMS integration practice.
• Architect and build scalable integration solutions processing hundreds of thousands of daily transactions across multiple DMS platforms.
• Own an integration end to end: vendor API client, event contracts, data mapping, mock endpoints, test plan, staged rollout, production monitoring, vendor certifications, and compliance.
• Develop code primarily with AI tooling using spec-driven development.
• Solve complex distributed systems challenges, including data consistency, error recovery, circuit breaking, and real-time bidirectional synchronization.
• Ensure reliable data synchronization with DMSes (CDK, Reynolds, Dealer Track, and others), maintaining vendor certifications and compliance requirements.
• Establish and maintain engineering excellence standards for DMS integrations, including data reliability, error handling, monitoring, logging, security compliance, and event replay capabilities.
• Lead the vision for your team's area of responsibility and align with Sr. Leadership through OKR planning and execution.
• Provide technical ownership for your team's contributions to meet engineering standards, project requirements, and quality expectations.
• Mentor team members through monthly touchpoints, performance reviews, and professional development planning.
• Develop cross-training matrices and enforce documentation standards to guarantee that at least two team members can perform each critical function, eliminating knowledge silos.
• Keep architecture diagrams and integration documentation accurate.
• Collaborate with other team leads in DMS space on shared artifacts and repositories

• 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with third-party APIs.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Demonstrate senior-level expertise in C# .NET, APIs, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
• Strong experience with cloud-native architectures.
• Working knowledge of data transfer protocols (HTTPS, SFTP) and exchange formats (JSON, XML, CSV).
• Working knowledge of OOP and modern design patterns.
• Experience with microservice and event-driven architecture. You've built and debugged systems where components communicate asynchronously.
• Ability to balance business and technical objectives when making decisions.
• Act as a technical communicator for prospective, new, and established integration partners, ensuring clarity in requirements, capabilities, and issue resolution.
• Experience mentoring and developing other engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to work effectively with product, engineering, and customers; internal and external.
• Experience working alongside AI coding agents on production codebases.
• Alignment with our Engineering Core Values:
• Relentless Improvement — "be better today than yesterday"
• Customer Obsession — "we succeed when our customers…