Description

About Vehlo

We started Vehlo in 2019 with a simple goal: to be the industry’s favorite provider of repair shop technology.

Across every part of the auto repair industry, Vehlo is igniting vehicle service success with software and financial solutions that unlock your potential. Our founder-led products power the entire service lane experience and keep customers coming back with streamlined tools that help you handle communication, workflow automation, touchless payments, valet pickup, and much more. We’re out to simplify the customer journey from start to finish and give power back to the people under the hood, making their jobs easier and your shop more profitable —just ask our over 30,000 customers, who generate more than 50M annual repair orders.

At Vehlo, our only purpose is your success, and together, we’re reaching your goals faster than ever. Being a Veep comes with more than a comprehensive benefits package—our biggest benefit is opportunity: Opportunity to make an impact, opportunity for growth, and opportunity for recognition and rewards. This is not a mega-corporation where you wonder what people are doing all day - every Veep is moving the ball forward day in, day out for our customers or for each other.

About This Role:

As a Software Development Manager, you will be working directly with the product engineering leaders to drive the direction of our platform leveraging your experience and entrepreneurial spirit. Understanding the automotive industry will be a key benefit to providing best-in-class software for our customers. Your acquisitive mindset will contribute to the success and competitive advantage in the automotive industry.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers through the full software development lifecycle.
• Modularize our features to allow for reusable components to seamlessly integrate in multiple products.
• Identify process improvements and best practices to increase team efficiency and product quality.
• Be a change agent in continuously improving the technical platform for our products.
• Participate and encourage new technologies and tools through proof of concept to support a best-in-class product suite.
• Mentor team members in new technologies, architecture, and CI/CD needs.
• Collaborate with peers and technical leaders to identify constraints and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and support to the feature teams.
• Contribute and improve the architecture to be flexible and scalable with business needs.
  
  

Qualifications

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years in software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Experience working with remote team members in an agile environment with working knowledge on how work gets from idea to production
• Excellent React and front-end development skills and consuming API services
• Comfortable with HTML5 and grid-based CSS frameworks like Bootstrap
• Excellent Java 8+ and Java Spring experience. Will focus on Spring Boot and Spring Data feature sets
• Ability to write MySQL queries (MongoDB experience a plus)
• Strong Python skills utilizing packages such as Pandas, PySpark and Numpy
• Deep understanding and application of modern data processing technology stacks. For example, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, and others
• Understanding of the theory and application of Continuous Integration/Delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  
  

Bonus Qualifications:

• AWS experience
• Passion for automotive technology and innovation
  
  

Vehlo is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Vehlo makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.