The OpportunityWe are looking for a
Senior Software Engineer to join one of our high-impact engineering squads. In this role, you will serve as a technical leader - designing complex systems, driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering high-quality software across our cloud-native Evolution DMS platform. You will work at the intersection of scale, performance, and user impact, tackling some of the hardest problems in our stack.
This is a full-time position with the opportunity to work in a collaborative, Agile environment where your decisions carry real weight.
What You'll Do- Lead technical design and architecture for complex, cross-functional features - evaluating trade-offs, defining patterns, and ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and performant across a large enterprise-grade codebase.
- Build and own platform-level frameworks used by other engineering squads - including authentication/authorization systems, API development tooling, webhook infrastructure, messaging pipelines, AI integrations, and CI/CD tooling.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, architectural guidance, and establishing best practices that raise the bar for the entire team.
- Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, design reviews, and knowledge sharing - fostering a culture of continuous learning (teaching experience a strong plus).
- Own end-to-end delivery of features from design through production - writing clean, efficient, well-documented code in Java, Kotlin, and TypeScript adhering to team standards.
- Lead and execute complex integrations with third-party systems - including payment processors, identity providers, OEM data feeds, and external APIs - ensuring resilience, security, and maintainability.
- Champion performance and reliability - proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks, design for failure, and implement resilience patterns (circuit breakers, caching strategies, backoff/retry) across our service integrations.
- Drive cloud infrastructure decisions on AWS - including serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway), container orchestration (EKS), messaging (SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ), and data services (RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, DynamoDB).
- Manage and evolve CI/CD pipelines - automating build, test, and deployment processes using GitLab CI, Gradle, Terraform, and Serverless Framework to enable rapid, consistent releases across environments.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for high-severity production issues, translating findings into actionable architectural improvements.
- Contribute to infrastructure as code using Terraform, supporting reproducible, version-controlled AWS environment provisioning.
- Maintain and improve technical documentation in Confluence, ensuring architectural decisions, patterns, and runbooks are accessible and up to date.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies - including AI/ML tooling - making recommendations that align with long-term platform direction.
What You Should HaveRequired Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of professional software engineering experience; or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
- Deep expertise in Java / Kotlin / Groovy and the Jakarta EE ecosystem - including JPA, Wildfly/JBoss, or Spring - with a strong command of object-oriented and functional design principles.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript - including Node.js and modern backend frameworks such as NestJS - with the ability to contribute across the full stack.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and deliver distributed, cloud-native systems at scale - including microservices, event-driven architectures, and RESTful API design.
- Integrate AI-assisted development tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent) into day-to-day engineering workflows - including code generation, automated code review, test authoring, and documentation - to improve individual and team productivity without compromising code quality or security standards.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS - specifically Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3, SNS, SQS, EKS, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB - and a track record of deploying and operating production workloads in cloud environments.
- Advanced proficiency with PostgreSQL and other data stores (Redis/Valkey, MongoDB) - including query optimization, indexing strategies, and schema design.
- Proven experience designing and implementing authentication and authorization systems - including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and integration with identity providers such as Okta and FusionAuth.
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration - Docker and Kubernetes/EKS - at a production operations level.
- Demonstrated experience leading or contributing to large-scale migrations - including legacy system rewrites, on-prem to cloud migrations, or major platform re-architectures.
- Solid understanding of messaging and event-driven systems - RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS, and ETCD-backed configuration management.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS Certification (Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, or AI Practitioner) strongly preferred.
- Experience on a developer platform or framework team - building shared tooling, libraries, and infrastructure that other engineering squads build on top of.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration patterns in production software - including LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or agentic workflow tooling.
- Solid experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform and deployment automation using Serverless Framework and GitLab CI.
- Experience with desktop application development and migration from legacy desktop (Swing or equivalent) to modern web/React front ends.
- Experience building and maintaining third-party payment integrations (e.g., WorldPay, Stripe, or equivalent payment processors), with strong understanding of PCI compliance considerations.
- Experience with build tooling - Gradle, Ant, or equivalent - in large multi-module Java projects.
- Familiarity with test-driven development (TDD), Jest, and maintaining high code coverage standards across unit, integration, and regression testing.
- Experience with observability tooling - Datadog, distributed tracing, structured logging, and defining SLOs/SLIs for production services.
- Prior experience in a teaching, mentoring, or adjunct instruction role is a meaningful differentiator and reflects the collaborative culture we value.
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and scripting (Python or Bash).
- Oracle Certified Java Programmer or equivalent certification a plus.
Tools & Technologies You'll Work With- Languages: Java • Kotlin • Groovy • TypeScript • JavaScript • Python
- Frameworks: Jakarta EE • Spring • NestJS • Node.js • Serverless Framework
- Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda • API Gateway • EKS • S3 • SNS/SQS • CloudFront • ElastiCache • DynamoDB) • Terraform • Docker • Kubernetes
- Data: PostgreSQL • Redis/Valkey • MongoDB • RabbitMQ • ETCD
- Auth: Okta • FusionAuth • OAuth 2.0 • OIDC
- Dev Tools: GitLab • Gradle • Jira • Confluence • SwaggerHub • Bruno • Datadog
Why Join Us- Work on a platform used daily by thousands of dealerships across North America
- Engineer at a scale where performance, resilience, and architectural decisions genuinely matter
- Be part of a collaborative, respectful engineering culture that values technical depth and continuous learning
- Competitive compensation and benefits package, with meaningful career growth opportunities inside an organization that has delivered double-digit revenue growth year over year for more than a decade - backed by over 40 years of industry leadership and a track record that proves stability and ambition are not mutually exclusive
- Flexible work arrangement with a hybrid work environment.
