Company Overview

Westlake Financial Services is the largest privately held auto finance company in the United States. We specialize in the acquisition and servicing of prime to subprime automotive retail installment contracts in all 50 states. Headquartered in Los Angeles, we have been a diversified lender for over 25 years and employ over 1,100 team members. Westlake Financial is one of the fastest growing multi-million dollar companies in the United States. The Los Angeles Business Journal named Westlake Financial the 7th fastest growing large company in Los Angeles County in 2012. This is the second consecutive year Westlake has been named on this list. The Los Angeles Business Journal published Westlake’s 3 year growth rate at 93%.

Westlake currently has over 170 Dealer Account Managers in 50 States and over $1 Billion in receivables. Being a part of the Hankey Group of companies we offer countless opportunities, competitive benefits, and compensation packages for outstanding professionals to deliver on our commitment to bring innovative, best-of-breed solutions to our customers. The Hankey Group is comprised of seven operating companies with 1,631 employees. Our people are the driving force behind our long-running success. People. Purpose. Passion.

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POSITION SUMMARY:  Westlake Financial, a technology-based, privately held finance company, is looking for Software Engineers/IT Manager to join our Technology team. . Our software engineers develop and maintain the technology that affects daily business activities and makes it accessible to all the employees.

If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first" organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then our TECH TEAM may well be just what you’re looking for. We offer countless opportunities and competitive benefit and compensation packages for outstanding professionals to deliver on our commitment to bring innovative, best-of-breed solutions to our customers. Our people are the driving force behind our long-running success.


JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for a hands-on Software Development Manager with excellent Java, PHP, and Perl skills who can also display versatility and resourcefulness in dealing with varying systems, programming languages, and environments. is a definite plus. This position requires both technical skills and management experience.

 

Your responsibilities include leading, managing and developing a group of software engineers. You will assume responsibility of overseeing for program analysis, coding, testing and implementing applications



Job Requirements

 

REQUIRED SKILLS:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields

- 7+ years of professional senior level software development experience including understanding of common design patterns, OOP, enterprise development issues such as multithreading, transaction management, and scalability.

- 7+ years of Java enterprise programming experience and experience with PHP, Perl, and CPAN modules

- 7+ years of professional experience using MySQL for enterprise software including understanding of and ability to create complex and efficient SQL queries

- 7+ years in web service development (SOAP, REST, JSON or plain XML over HTTPS)

- Manage the day to day project, working with the engineers to understand the requirements and confirm the implementation meets the requirements.

- Translate business requirements into designs.

- Develop project plans, work estimates and risk analysis to implement the requirements.

- Communicate the status of the projects to the Vice President and leaders in other departments.

- Lead the implementation of a software development process, including peer reviews and peer product testing.

- Identify areas of improvement in process and work with applicable teams to improve Westlake Financial's overall productivity.

- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of team members and work with Vice President, Engineering and HR to address concerns or capitalize on strengths.

- Mentor and improve the skills of the engineers on the team

- Hire, train and retain great engineers.

- Demonstrate social and trust building skills that enable comfortable and effective interactions with others outside the department.

- Proficiency working in UNIX operating systems like Linux

- Experience with agile development methodologies and ability to properly estimate task completion a plus

- Experience researching, developing, and applying new technologies and methodologies

- Experience with ETL processes

- Experience of LAMP stacks

- Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration

- SVN or other source control system

 

DESIRED SKILLS:

- Experience in system administration, query optimization, and database tuning of MySQL

 

This full-time employment role provides competitive compensation and benefits package, along with interesting projects and exceptional growth opportunities.

 

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