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With well-known brands like AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync, and Dealertrack Canada, Trader Corporation is driving digital innovation in the automotive industry - now reaching over 25 million Canadians every month.\nThis role will be within the Dealertrack Canada team, the country’s leading automotive financing portal, processing over 6.5 million credit applications annually.\nLevel: IC3 (Mid-Level Individual Contributor)\nEmployment type: Full-time\nBuild The Future Of Automotive Financing\nDealertrack Canada is the country's leading automotive financing portal, helping dealers, lenders, and consumers move through vehicle financing with greater speed, trust, and confidence. As part of Trader Corporation and AutoScout24 Group, we are connected to one of the largest automotive marketplaces in the world while working on deeply Canadian fintech problems.\nOur Fintech engineering teams are modernizing platforms that support millions of credit applications annually. We work on systems for credit application processing, lender and dealer workflows, fraud prevention, risk assessment, customer support, and operational decision-making.\nWe are looking for a Software Engineer who wants to grow with a product engineering team that is raising the bar on reliability, automation, AI-assisted delivery, and service ownership.\nWhy This Role Matters\nAutomotive financing is changing. Dealers and lenders expect faster decisions, better integrations, stronger fraud controls, cleaner data, and more reliable digital workflows. Our platforms sit in the middle of that ecosystem.\nIn this role, you will help build and modernize the software that powers those workflows. You will not just close tickets. You will learn the domain, understand the customer and operational impact of your work, contribute to solution design, ship production software, and help the team improve how we build and operate systems.\nWhat You’llDo:\nShip Clean, Reliable Software\nImplement new features and modules using clean, effective, and testable code.\nCreate and maintain simple services using team and platform standards.\nWrite unit tests and contribute to automation that improves release confidence.\nImprove the code you touch so it becomes easier to understand, operate, and extend.\nHelp Shape The Solution\nUnderstand the business problem, customer outcome, risks, dependencies, and first deliverable slice before starting implementation.\nContribute to technical design discussions with senior engineers.\nRaise unclear requirements, technical risks, data questions, or integration concerns early.\nExplain your design and implementation choices clearly to your team.\nOwn The Work Beyond The Pull Request\nTake responsibility for your work from implementation through release, monitoring, support, and follow-up.\nMonitor and analyze team services to detect issues and improve reliability.\nParticipate in support workflows for services owned by the team.\nUse incidents, support feedback, and production signals to improve future delivery.\nBuild Quality In\nTreat testing, observability, security, and maintainability as part of engineering delivery.\nThink about critical paths and the checks that give the team confidence a change is safe to ship.\nSuggest practical code-quality improvements in code reviews.\nInclude security and privacy best practices when planning and building features.\nGrow With The Team\nPair with engineers, participate actively in code reviews, and share what you learn.\nUse AI tools responsibly to improve speed, code quality, documentation, testing, and analysis.\nBuild stronger domain understanding across automotive financing, fraud prevention, risk decisioning, customer support, and dealer/lender workflows.\nHelp create the kind of engineering culture where teams move faster because ownership, quality, and clarity are strong.\nWhat We’reLooking For:\nSolid experience building production software with modern engineering practices.\nStrong fundamentals in clean code, testing, debugging, and maintainable design.\nExperience with .NET / C#, or strong willingness to work deeply in a .NET backend environment.\nExperience with TypeScript and modern frontend development, ideally React and/or Next.js.\nAbility to build modules or simple services from scratch while following existing patterns and standards.\nAbility to contribute to technical design discussions and explain trade-offs clearly.\nComfort with production systems, monitoring, incident response, and learning from operational feedback.\nProduct-minded engineering judgment: you care about the customer and business problem, not only the implementation task.\nQuality mindset: you see tests, automation, observability, and maintainability as part of your job.\nSecurity-aware mindset, especially in systems that handle financing, risk, integrations, or sensitive customer data.\nClear communication, constructive code-review habits, and willingness to ask for or offer help.\nPractical, responsible use of AI tools while staying accountable for the final output.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn this role, a successful IC3 engineer will:\nDeliver well-tested features and modules that solve clear customer or business problems.\nContribute meaningfully to design discussions for specific services, features, integrations, and data flows.\nHelp the team clarify requirements, risks, dependencies, and acceptance criteria before and during delivery.\nOperate team-owned services responsibly, using monitoring, support feedback, and production learning to improve reliability.\nRaise the quality of team implementation through code reviews, testing, documentation, automation, and shared learning.\nBuild increasing domain understanding of automotive financing, fraud prevention, risk decisioning, customer/support intake, and Dealertrack Canada workflows.\nWhat's In It For You?\nWe understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best. \n Benefits from Day 1 \nGym discounts\nEmployee and Family Assistance program \nVirtual wellness events \nConferences & training budget \nRegular internal training programs \nFinancial planning \nLet us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection. \n Competitive salary \nAnnual bonus structure\n3% CPP matching \n---\nThe base salary range for this position is CAD 110,000 - CAD 140,000.\nThis range reflects the expected compensation at the time of posting. The final offer may vary and can be higher based on relevant skills, experience, location, and market conditions. 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