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Credit Acceptance
Credit Acceptance
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
H1B Visa SponsorAutomotiveFinanceFintech
Credit Acceptance provides auto financing through a nationwide dealer network, serving consumers across a range of credit backgrounds, including those with limited or damaged credit histories. Its services include vehicle financing, pre-qualification that does not affect a customer’s credit score, and financial tools such as payment and auto price calculators. By combining automotive lending with educational resources, the company aims to help more people access reliable transportation and make informed decisions about their financial options.
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Director of Software Engineering, Platform Services (Southfield Hybrid)

Lead Credit Acceptance’s Platform Services organization, advancing developer platforms, AI-assisted development, and shared engineering services. Modernize engineering infrastructure while building teams and improving secure, reliable software delivery.

USUnited StatesMIMichigan
$208,761 – $306,182 / year
HybridFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredEngineering Manager
Cloud

Description

  • Set strategy and manage the Platform Services organization day to day
  • Lead the development, enhancement, and support of integrated services for engineering teams
  • Define the company’s model for AI-assisted and specification-driven development, including coding assistants, agent frameworks, standards, and safety controls
  • Provide golden-path templates, scaffolds, and reference implementations for new engineering initiatives
  • Own development environments and inner-loop tooling, including build and test performance and environment provisioning
  • Manage availability, performance, support models, service-level objectives, and on-call coverage for shared services
  • Shape the Platform Services experience to promote secure, reliable, efficient developer delivery and adoption
  • Collaborate with delivery pipeline, cloud infrastructure, and runtime platform teams
  • Define and report measures for engineering productivity, platform adoption, service performance, and project progress
  • Align platform strategy with business goals, priorities, and budget while assessing build, buy, and open-source alternatives
  • Ensure tooling and shared services satisfy security, privacy, audit, and corporate standards
  • Support growth initiatives by connecting the technology vision to business strategy
  • Build and lead diverse engineering teams while recruiting and developing engineering leaders and high-performing talent
  • Set team direction, anticipate strategic and scaling needs, and guide organizational change
  • Translate platform strategy into technical building blocks and mentor the resulting technical work
  • Provide ongoing feedback, address performance concerns, and recognize team contributions
  • Foster a results-focused culture centered on execution, quality, speed, and strong service
  • Work from home with occasional planned travel to the assigned Southfield, Michigan office; work from that office when requested by the team member
  • Handle other assigned responsibilities

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or an engineering or technical discipline; MBA preferred
  • Required degrees must come from institutions accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or an equivalent body
  • At least 10 years in highly technical development or enterprise-services roles at large organizations or innovative startups
  • At least 5 years supervising, consulting, or leading teams, with experience managing multiple teams
  • Demonstrated success delivering internal developer tooling, developer platforms, or shared engineering services adopted by other engineering teams
  • Experience scaling AI-assisted software development, including coding assistants, agentic workflows, evaluation, and safeguards for releasing generated code
  • Experience owning production services, including service-level objectives, on-call rotations, and incident response
  • Proven ability to unify duplicated capabilities into a supported platform, including migration and decommissioning
  • Ability to communicate effectively with C-level executives and explain complex topics across the organization
  • Familiarity with agent development frameworks, model access layers, or comparable AI platform capabilities
  • Experience in a regulated industry or in close partnership with security, audit, and compliance teams
  • Working knowledge of financial services, loan origination systems, web applications, and the automotive industry
  • Working knowledge of modern developer tooling, including source control, code review, continuous integration, containers, infrastructure as code, and developer portals or service catalogs
  • Strategic thinker who can connect technical initiatives to business goals and develop technical strategies and roadmaps
  • Experience expanding teams and cultivating a collaborative, ambitious, outcome-oriented culture
  • Ability to identify and improve unclear or missing processes
  • Record of data-informed decisions and delivery against a strong technical vision
  • Automation-oriented approach to reducing manual work
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to advance ideas and initiatives
  • Maintain compliance with company policies, procedures, and legal requirements
  • Attend as required by the department

Benefits

  • Annual cash and equity incentive opportunity ranging from 20% to 60%
  • 401(k) matching
  • Adoption assistance
  • Parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Additional nonstandard benefits
  • Work-from-home arrangement
  • Flexible work-life balance
  • Professional development and continuous improvement opportunities
  • Casual work environment
  • Great Place to Work culture

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