Software Engineer IV, Drive

Overview

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. Our network of brands include ACV Auctions, ACV Transportation, ClearCar, MAX Digital and ACV Capital within its Marketplace Products, as well as, True360 and Data Services.

ACV Auctions in Chennai, India are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As we expand our platform, we're offering a wide range of exciting opportunities across various roles in corporate, operations, and product and technology. Our global product and technology organization spans product management, engineering, data science, machine learning, DevOps and program leadership. What unites us is a deep sense of customer centricity, calm persistence in solving hard problems, and a shared passion for innovation. If you're looking to grow, lead, and contribute to something larger than yourself, we'd love to have you on this journey. Let's build something extraordinary together. Join us in shaping the future of automotive!

At ACV we focus on the Health, Physical, Financial, Social and Emotional Wellness of our Teammates and to support this we offer industry leading benefits and wellness programs.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll be a core part of our engineering team. You will bring your valuable experience and knowledge, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the team, along with the technical quality of our products. This is a key role in helping us become more mature, deliver innovative new products and unlock further business growth.

This role will be part of a newly formed India-based team that will collaborate alongside our existing team based in Ireland. Following the successful delivery of some fantastic products, we are excited to accelerate this further in 2025 and beyond. You and your team will be tasked with delivering innovative new features and products that will directly help fuel Drive’s growth across Europe.

Reporting to our Team Lead, you will be a core member of both the engineering and business teams. You’ll work across all our brands, helping to shape their future direction. Collaborating with our Product Owner, you will ensure requirements are well understood and can be delivered to a high standard. Working as part of a team, you will help shape the technical design of our platforms and solve complicated problems in elegant ways that are robust, scalable, and secure.

This is a full-stack role and you will be directly contributing to delivering complicated functionality from our product roadmap. You will also have a keen eye over technical debt and drive improvements to the underlying quality and maintainability of our platforms. We don’t get everything right first time, but you will help us reflect, adjust and be better next time around.

We are looking for people who are inquisitive, confident exploring unfamiliar problems, and have a passion for learning. We don’t have all the answers and don’t expect you to know everything either. Our team culture is open, inclusive, and collaborative – we tackle goals together. Seeking the best solution to a problem, we actively welcome ideas and opinions from everyone in the team.

Our Technologies

We are continuously evolving our products and exploring new opportunities. We are focused on selecting the right technologies to solve the problem at hand. We know the technologies we’ll be using in 3 years’ time will probably be quite different to what we’re using today. You’ll be a key contributor to evolving our tech stack over time.

We currently use a mix of React on the front-end, with JavaScript (Node.js) and Python on the backend. We use a variety of AWS services for our backend infrastructure and integrate specialist components from SaaS technology partners. We don’t need you to be an expert with these technologies, but it will help if you’re strong with something similar.

Your Skills And Experience

This is an important role for us as we scale up the team and we are looking for someone who has existing experience at this level. You will have worked with customer-facing digital platforms that involve some kind of transaction, such as eCommerce, trading platforms or advertising lead generation.

Your broad experience and knowledge of engineering methods means you’re able to build high quality products regardless of the language used – solutions that avoid common pitfalls impacting the platform’s technical performance. You can apply automated approaches for tracking and measuring quality throughout the whole lifecycle, through to the production environments.

You are comfortable working with complex and varied problems. As a strong communicator, you work well with product owners and business stakeholders. You’re able to influence and persuade others by listening to their views, explaining your own thoughts, and working to achieve agreement.

We have many automotive industry experts within our team already and they are eager to teach you everything you need to know for this role. Any existing industry knowledge is a bonus but is not necessary.

This is a full-time role based in our India office on a semi-flexible basis. Our engineering team is globally distributed but we’d like you to be accessible to the office for ad-hoc meetings and workshops.

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.

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