Software Engineer

At Edmunds we’re driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60’s the company has been in the business of trust innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first Internet site in 1994 we established a leadership position online and have never looked back. Now as one of the most trusted review sites on the Internet millions of visitors use our research shopping and buying tools every month to make an easy and informed decision on their next car. For consumers we bring peace of mind. For dealers we make tools to help them solve their problems and sell more cars. How do we do it you ask? The key ingredients are our enthusiastic employees progressive company culture and cutting-edge technology. Want to join the team? Read on to find out how!

What You’re Applying For:

Edmunds is looking for a mid level software engineer to transform the way people buy cars. Buying a car can be a daunting process through which consumers begrudgingly go every five to six years. At Edmunds we build tools to allow consumers to shop online and connect with dealers. You will work with a cross-functional team to create products that take the stress out of car buying.

What You’ll Do:

• Help customers complete more of the automotive transaction online by building deeper integrations with forward-looking dealers.
• Assure shoppers that they are getting a good deal by revamping the way we present pricing on our website.
• Streamline the way customers reach out to dealers through our platform by optimizing the performance of those pages.
• Research and evangelize modern Javascript best practices and client-side application design.
• Coordinate the development of front-end features from technical design to production deployment.
• Collaborate with product managers designers and other software engineers.

What You Need:

• Demonstrated ability to see projects to completion
• Experience in building unit testing documenting and refactoring client-side applications
• Familiarity with testing strategies cross-browser compatibility and client-side performance optimization
• Experience with Node.js is a plus
• Experience with React and isomorphic Javascript is a plus
• Experience designing and building APIs using REST GraphQL or gRPC is a plus
• Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS GCP or Azure is a plus
• Experience architecting multi-tier systems is a plus
• Experience designing data storage schemas is a plus
• Experience with RESTful microservices GraphQL and serverless systems.

Why You Would Want This Job:

• You love building intuitive and elegant user interfaces.
• You want to make a real impact on the way people buy cars.
• You appreciate working with talented people in a variety of roles including software engineering product management and design

The compensation range for this position is $125000 - $159000 per year. The base pay will take into account internal equity as well as job-related knowledge skills and experience among other factors. In addition Edmunds offers full-time employees a comprehensive total rewards package including the benefits listed below.

Edmunds Perks:

• Flexible time off
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical dental vision life and disability)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)
• 401K Plan with company matching at 100% up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting
• Stock purchase program
• CarMax vehicle discount
• Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave
• HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them
• 2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes
• FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees
• Well-being sessions
• Employee Recognition Program
• On-going career development opportunities
• Pet insurance
• Sabbatical leave
• Education Reimbursement
• Pre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses

Working @ Edmunds.com:

Employees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by Fortune Magazine Great Places to Work LA Business Journal Newsweek Computerworld Built in LA Inc. Magazine The Wall Street Journal Business Week Magazine and Architectural Record. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology for Diversity and Asian Americans and as a Newsweek Most Loved Workplace for LGBTQ+ employees. If you’re interested in learning more and joining our mission we’d love to hear from you!

Edmunds will consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.

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What We Do

At Edmunds we’re driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60's the company has been in the business of trust innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first website in 1995 we established a leadership position online and have never looked back.

Why Work With Us

At Edmunds we wrote the book on empowered car buying. Today we're driving innovation to make the process easier for shoppers and dealers alike. We do it with data but we're powered by people and their passion to evolve the car-shopping experience. So we trust our talent to shape our future and inspire them to shape their own.

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