Software-Engineer, Data-Engineering, Backend-Development Jobs

If you are looking for a career at a dynamic company with a people-first mindset and a deep culture of growth and autonomy, ACV is the right place for you! Competitive compensation packages and learning and development opportunities, ACV has what you need to advance to the next level in your career. We will continue to raise the bar every day by investing in our people and technology to help our customers succeed. We hire people who share our passion, bring innovative ideas to the table, and enjoy a collaborative atmosphere.

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.

At ACV we focus on the Health, Physical, Financial, Social and Emotional Wellness of our Teammates and, to support this, we offer:

• Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan
• Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
• Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave 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 applicable law or regulation
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company
• Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k)

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering group, focusing on the VIN Decoder platform. The position will focus on backend development, AWS Postgres, GCP BigQuery, Redis, and python development. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in software development, database design, multi-cloud environments, and in-memory data technologies. You bring deep technical expertise in software development, demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills, and embrace a hands-on, problem-solving mindset to tackle ACV’s most challenging data engineering problems. This position is ideal for an engineer that thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is passionate about solving complex technical challenges. If you are passionate about solving complex architectural challenges and are equally invested in developing the careers of those around you, this is the perfect opportunity. If you are passionate about solving complex architectural challenges and are equally invested in developing the careers of those around you, this is the perfect opportunity.

What you will do:

• Contribute to the technical vision for your team’s domain, making critical decisions on multi-cloud infrastructure, in-memory technologies, and overall system architecture.
• Develop APIs, services, background workers using python, Postgres database, Redis
• Design and build complex systems that can scale rapidly with little maintenance, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Design and implement effective service/product interfaces, including third-party API 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 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.
• 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 robust test suites for your products (unit/integration testing), ensuring maintainable and well-covered code.
• Drive operational maturity (observability, incident response, on-call practices, reliability goals) and lead post-incident analysis with preventative action plans.
• Handle multiple competing priorities in an agile, fast-paced environment while maintaining strong engineering discipline and delivery quality.
• Participate in on-call rotation/production support
• You will need to maintain standard Eastern Time (ET) working hours to ensure seamless collaboration with your team and direct reports
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• 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.

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.

For information on our collection and use of your personal information, please see our Privacy Notice. No immigration or work visa sponsorship provided for this position.

Compensation: The compensation range for this position is listed in the "Job Details" section at the bottom of this posting. Please note that final compensation will be determined based upon the applicant's relevant experience, skill set, location, business needs, market demands, and other factors as permitted by law.

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Job summary

A Senior Software Engineer with exceptional data and software engineering skills, and a passion for building data-centric applications is to join our team of software developers, data scientists and product owners to support and expand KBI’s Digital Transformation vision. He or she will contribute to our current and future digital portfolio by using cutting-edge technologies, develop innovative approaches, with the ultimate purpose to enhance the quality and speed of drug development using software and data solutions. The role entails developing solutions to solve complex scientific and data problems. The ideal talent thrives in a fast-paced, technically complex, and business and market-driven environments. This position is designed to help lead KBI’s data and software capabilities by focusing on expanding our cloud-based custom-built platforms and products that support biopharmaceutical processes and support data exchange, data visualization, statistical analysis and reporting capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining, enhancing and reviewing software solutions and data analysis tools to enable scientific insight, leveraging the existing landscape of open-source and proprietary packages developed at KBI.

• Apply industry best practices and design patterns to distill fast-moving product requirements into state-of-the-art designs/architecture recommendations and tangible engineering tasks, to develop solutions that deliver target business goals, and support KBI’s Digital Transformation goals.

• Working closely with our SMEs to build tools or applications with a strong focus on data-driven decisions.

• Shaping up our engineering culture by coming up with new ideas, tools, and best practices wherever better approaches can lead to higher quality, or faster time-to-market for digital products.

• Interfacing with scientists, engineers, software developers and management to contribute to the team’s vision, mission and approach to delivering Digital Transformation.

• Owning projects end-to-end: from design, to working with product owners, contributing to backlog maintenance when needed, through development, to production and support.

• Providing code review, and training to fellow software developers internal to KBI, as well as external developers from consulting teams.

• Keeping up with software best practices and software technologies, especially open-source and technologies enabling cloud-based data products.

• Support promoting digital mindset and better data and software awareness and practices throughout KBI as the company to expands its use and understanding of digital solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Chemical Engineering or another field with substantial Computer Science training or equivalent skills acquired through professional experience.

• 5+ years working developing software, preferably with a scientific and/or data focus.

• Strong understanding of 2 or more modern software development languages, preferably Python and Javascript/Typescript.

• 5+ years of experience and proven track record delivering products with the following or similar technologies: Python, node.js , Python and/or Javascript frameworks for application development such as React, next.js, Flask, Django, streamlit, AWS services such as Redshift Redshift spectrum and RDS, data technologies such as Pandas, NumPy, Airbyte and DBT, testing frameworks such as pytest or playwright, orchestration technologies such as Github actions and Airflow.

• Strong understanding of computer architecture and software architecture in cloud environments.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills, and a desire to tackle challenging engineering problems through simple and maintainable software solutions.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong relationships with end-users, other development team members, and all stakeholders.

• Customer focus with the emotional intelligence to collaborate with users to gather requirements to enable workflow and feature definition.

• A passion for technology and a desire to always discover and learn about new technology that accelerate software development and/or improve its robustness. 

Additional skills and experience considered a plus:

• 2 or more years in a pharma or other regulated environment.
• Experience with using Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum), ideally in a regulated environment. 

• API frameworks and API building experience including REST, FASTAPI, AWS glue, ...

KBI Biopharma, Inc. is an EEO/AA employer and actively seeks to diversify its work force. Therefore, all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status, are strongly encouraged to apply.

I understand that neither the completion of this application nor any other part of my consideration for employment establishes any obligation for KBI Biopharma, Inc. to hire me. If I am hired, I understand that either KBI Biopharma, Inc. or I can terminate my employment at any time and for any reason, with or without cause and without prior notice. I understand that no representative of KBI Biopharma, Inc. has the authority to make any assurance to the contrary.

I attest with my signature below that I have given to KBI Biopharma, Inc. true and complete information on this application. No requested information has been concealed. I authorize KBI Biopharma, Inc. to contact references provided for employment reference checks. If any information I have provided is untrue, or if I have concealed material information, I understand that this will constitute cause for the denial of employment or immediate dismissal.

Originally posted on Himalayas