Staff Software Engineer, Marketplace

Who We Are Looking For

Our software engineering teams operate on a few common principles, working on interesting and challenging problems, enabling autonomy to develop and deploy the best solutions, and being surrounded by great engineers and a warm culture. These tenets allow our engineering teams to have large business impact and product ownership, which is critical to ACV Auctions continual growth.

We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic Staff Software Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain software applications that solve real-world problems and enhance our products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions.

What You Will Do

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Establish and document best practices and coding standards.
• Support product delivery teams by providing guidance on technical solutions when asked.
• Conduct code reviews, develop high-quality documentation, and build robust test suites.
• Own the overall performance of products and frameworks within a defined area of focus.
• Provide technical support for multiple applications within the technology portfolio.
• Be empowered to lead and complete software projects with minimal guidance from managers.
• Lead team discussions to define technical requirements for new and current products.
• Develop roadmaps and prioritizes technical debt to effectively plan features and work.
• Respond-to and troubleshoot highly complex problems quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

What You Will Need

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
• BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert experience with Java, Python.
• Expert experience with Distributed Systems Design and/or Event-Driven development.
• Expert experience and understanding of pyramid testing methodologies.
• Expert experience with build & deployment automation (CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins/TeamCity).
• Experience with AWS (or any big public cloud tech), Elastic Search, and Pub/Sub patterns (Kafka).
• Expert experience with version control systems (Git).
• Experience maintaining and extending an existing codebase, adapting to pre-existing patterns and tracing the code’s path of execution.
• Previous experience leading POCs or technical tool adoption initiatives.
• Experience with Kubernetes and related observability tooling.
• 7+ years of experience