Sr. Software Engineer I

Cars Commerce • Remote

Company

Cars Commerce

Location

Remote

Type

Full Time

Job Description

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.

About the Role:

Cars Commerce is looking for a senior software engineer who is passionate about delighting customers with sophisticated user experiences, and developing applications using Elixir.  Your work may include, designing message handling systems, implementing notification systems, building modern front-end interfaces for the systems you build, and constructing GraphQL resolvers. The ideal candidate has developed and shipped Elixir applications using the Phoenix Framework, Elasticsearch, LiveView, and JavaScript. In addition to their experience working across the Elixir application stack, this individual has been a part of Agile development processes, enjoys solving problems with software, and cares deeply about developing team culture. 

Responsibilities 

  • Collaborate with, mentor, and coach engineers to design, build, maintain, and operate across all functional areas of the cars.com platform 
  • Work across multi-disciplined product teams and business stakeholders to influence decisions, and deliver new features as well as platform enhancements 
  • Design high quality, scalable, efficient software; our primary stack is built in Elixir on the Phoenix framework and runs in AWS 
  • Influence and drive engineering team culture through Pull Request contributions and reviews, project and team retrospectives, and identifying opportunities to improve processes 
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to support platform health, and drive best practices and improvements to make the Cars Commerce products more resilient and easier to maintain
  • Develop, maintain, and evangelize engineering best practices 
  • Contribute to clear documentation and testing tools in support of our platform 

Required Skills & Experience 

  • Significant professional software engineering experience (5+ years) 
  • Built and shipped multiple products, applications, or systems to production 
  • Some Production Elixir experience; you've built and deployed Elixir to production
  • Familiarity with how the BEAM and OTP work, and Elixir libraries Oban, Broadway, Absinthe
  • Proficient in front-end programing languages: Javascript, TypeScript, and CSS
  • Able to observe, instrument, optimize, and operate what you build (we use Datadog and Splunk)
  • Understanding of CI/CD and deployment toolchains; we use CircleCI, Docker, Amazon ECR, and Helm
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position which is not inclusive of bonuses, benefits or other forms of compensation that the position may be eligible for. If you are hired at Cars Commerce, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills and/or experience. If the salary range is close to what you're seeking, then we encourage you to apply and learn more about the total compensation package for this position.

Salary Range

$131,400—$164,250 USD

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

  • Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
  • 401(k) with Company Match + Immediate Vesting
  • New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Generous PTO
  • Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset

  • Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day
  • Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. California Applicants: Click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Applicants. For current employees, please click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Employees.

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Date Posted

10/25/2024

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