AI-First Staff Software Engineer, AWS Cloud

Credit Acceptance Corporation; United States; Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Adoption assistance

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

Flexible work options

Job summary

Credit Acceptance is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of cloud‑native Java services on AWS. You will drive technical direction, architecture decisions, and coding standards while mentoring engineers and collaborating with business partners.

You will work on Consumer360, building secure, AI‑driven customer context APIs and agent tools. This role follows a hybrid schedule with two remote days and three in‑office days weekly at the local office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field; or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience.
• Experience leading a team of software engineers across multiple applications.
• Expert hands‑on Java (17/21) and SpringBoot: building and operating production REST and event‑driven services on AWS.
• Practical experience with AI‑assisted delivery: spec‑driven development, test automation, CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
• Experience with API design: REST/JSON, OpenAPI, and contract testing (Pact).
• Experience with cloud platforms on AWS, containers on Kubernetes, observability and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and continuously improve cloud‑native Java21 / SpringBoot services on AWS.
• Lead spec‑driven development with automated tests and consumer/provider contracts.
• Modernize Consumer360 systems: upgrade runtimes and migrate on‑prem workloads to AWS.
• Mentor engineers and define coding and testing standards.
• Own delivery flow end to end to reduce requirement‑to‑production time.
• Design, build, evaluate and operate production AI agents on AWS (Bedrock AgentCore, Spring AI).
• Lead AI‑assisted delivery models with written specs and gated approvals.
• Document systems for humans and AI agents with READMEs, agent instructions, and API specs.

Skills

Java

SpringBoot

AWS

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Pact

OpenAPI

AI‑First Delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

SpringBoot

AWS

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Bedrock/AgentCore

Job description

Credit Acceptance is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of cloud‑native Java services on AWS. You will drive technical direction, architecture decisions, and coding standards while mentoring engineers and collaborating with business partners.

You will work on Consumer360, building secure, AI‑driven customer context APIs and agent tools. This role follows a hybrid schedule with two remote days and three in‑office days weekly at the local office.