Sr. Software Engineer II

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.  

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

Your role:

If you’re an experienced engineer looking for a 100% remote team, you’ve come to the right place!

Cars Commerce helps tens of millions of people like you and me find their perfect car match each year. We’re looking for a senior engineer with 10+ years of aggregate software engineering experience to architect and evangelize how we build and scale our Dealer Inspire product. Dealer Inspire provides innovative digital marketing and dealership management solutions for the automotive industry. It offers a range of solutions designed to help car dealerships optimize their online presence, increase sales, and improve customer experiences. 

You’ll work with our core product, feature and platform teams to determine technical needs and constraints to guide our engineering strategies and practices. You’ll be a leader and a mentor – enabling teams around you to deliver effectively and efficiently. Outside of engineering, you’ll be working with cross-functional teams such as product, marketing, analytics, and data to understand our short-term and long-term business objectives. Once you’ve worked with the teams to arrive at a technical solution, you’ll work to socialize and implement this solution, taking particular care to ensure we have tight feedback loops so we can practice continuous improvement and ensuring the entire organization is ascribing to the best practices you put forth.

Not only will you bridge systems technically, you’ll be bridging the gap between teams to ensure that we can all arrive at the best solution we can given the information we have available. You’ll educate and guide across the product engineering team. You’ll be a critical part of how a billion-dollar publicly-traded company runs its technical strategy, and your decisions will impact millions of users.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Technical
• Contribute to the creation of software architecture patterns and best practices that can be used across teams in the department
• Contribute to Engineering and Architecture initiatives and collaborate with Principal engineers and Engineering Managers to execute and deliver initiative outcomes.
• Actively coach department teams to consider maintainability and extensibility in their approach to technical design
• Ensures department teams implement the tooling and techniques required to ship code consistently, securely, and quickly
• Execution
• Support the delivery of highly technical projects from start to finish with milestones and clear success criteria, ensuring alignment with business and technical goals
• Conduct thorough Architecture and Code Reviews and coach Engineers across the department on what good looks like through positive reinforcement and demonstration.
• Ensure teams within the department are adhering to defined architecture and software development patterns and best practices.
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