About this role
<p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light';text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#001326">Job description</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#5199e2">_</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#001326">About the Role</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#5199e2">_</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">This project powers one of the industry’s most trusted vehicle data platforms. The candidate will design and build high-scale, cloud-native systems that process millions of vehicle history and transaction requests daily, supporting major partners across dealerships, lenders, marketplaces, and enterprise platforms (e.g., Carvana, Cox Automotive, </span><a href="https://cars.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cars.com</a><span style="color:#001326">, and others). This role blends modern distributed systems engineering with AI-assisted development and emerging agentic workflows, giving you the opportunity to shape both core platform architecture and the next generation of intelligent engineering practices..</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#001326">A day in this role</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#5199e2">_</span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Own the design and delivery of high-performance, low-latency APIs and microservices powering vehicle history (VHR), VIN intelligence, and transaction systems. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Build and scale Java/Spring Boot services in a cloud-native AWS environment, handling high-throughput, real-time workloads. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Architect and implement event-driven systems using Kafka/SQS to support asynchronous processing and data pipelines. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Lead development of complex features, platform enhancements, and proof-of-concepts that drive business impact. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Contribute to and influence system architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions across services. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability (logging, tracing, performance tuning). </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Collaborate closely with product, data, and partner teams to deliver mission-critical integrations and APIs. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Participate in full SDLC ownership: design → build → deploy → operate (“you build it, you own it”). </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture through code reviews and technical leadership.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#001326">The expertise requested</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#5199e2">_</span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">10+ years (or equivalent experience) building large-scale, distributed, high-volume transactional systems. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, and REST API design. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Hands-on experience with AWS (compute, storage, containers, networking, security, monitoring). </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Experience building event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, ActiveMQ, or similar). </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Strong experience with observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog) for debugging and performance optimization. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Front-end experience with React, JavaScript, HTML/CSS (full-stack capability preferred). </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Experience with PostgreSQL/DB2 and database performance tuning. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Solid understanding of Agile, SDLC, and modern engineering best practices. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Leverage tools like GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code to accelerate development, testing, and documentation. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Design and integrate AI-assisted workflows and agent-driven capabilities into engineering processes and/or production systems. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Build or support intelligent features (e.g., automation, recommendations, data enrichment, or decisioning) using AI models and APIs. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Develop tool-integrated agent workflows, including prompt design, multi-step orchestration, and API-based task execution (e.g., MCP or similar patterns). </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Evaluate and productionize AI-generated outputs, ensuring code quality, security, and compliance with enterprise standards. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Optimize AI-powered solutions for latency, cost, reliability, and observability in production environments. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Apply foundational knowledge of embeddings, fine-tuning, and dataset preparation to adapt AI capabilities to real-world business use cases..</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.5in;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.5in;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#001326">Desired or nice to have expertise</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#5199e2">_</span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Experience working with automotive data, VIN decoding, or vehicle lifecycle systems. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Familiarity with high-availability systems (99.9%+ uptime) and strict latency SLAs. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Experience integrating with enterprise partners or external APIs at scale. </span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><span style="color:#001326">Exposure to AI/ML platforms or deploying AI-powered features in production.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><em><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#001326"> </span></em></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 14.2pt;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 14.2pt;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 14.2pt;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 14.2pt;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 14.2pt;text-indent:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"> </p> <p style="text-align:center;margin:0.0in 0.0in 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light'"><em><span style="color:#001326">Our Core values are focus to inclusion and diversity, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment and will go thru a fair recruitment process regardless of their race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin or disability status.</span></em></p><p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate Light';text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'GFT Corporate SemiBold';color:#001326">Your journey with us begins here!!</span></p>