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.
• Understand ambiguous business problems related to your work as well as the work of your department; resolve them
• Collaboration & Communication
• Produce excellent written products in technical designs, assessments, code reviews/PRs, technical strategy, project status and more
• Build trust and rapport with Engineers in the department to be viewed as subject matter expert
• Distil highly-technical and/or abstract information for consumption by non-technical stakeholders
• Actively delivers situational & task-based feedback as well as feedback on overall performance to other teammates, their direct manager, and managers & individual contributors on outside teams, and cross functional stakeholders
• Leadership
• Considers factors outside their immediate team's purview in how to automate, de-risk, and optimize their department’s delivery
• The ability to create training programs to onboard engineers onto new technologies, systems, and architectures, and up-level those already privy
• Ensures knowledge and lessons learned obtained by themselves as well as other teammates are shared across their department team as well as their department's cross functional stakeholders
• Seeks out opportunities to mentor other individuals, both formally and informally, across their department, creates and manages projects in support of mentorship activities, sets department best practices around how to effectively mentor individuals

Required Skills and Experience

• Deep expertise in modern tech stacks and best practices, you are advanced in multiple areas of building a scalable digital product from user experience to compute to data persistence to analytical concerns across those areas
• You have designed and implemented applications with reasonable scale (1M+ monthly visits) and/or revenue ($1M+ MRR).
• You understand the complexities of working with modern technologies, and enjoy working through them to share lessons learned with fellow engineers
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, focused on frontend, backend and DevOps engineering 
• 5+ years of experience architecting and building cloud applications for high-traffic, large-scale web applications
• Experience in building resilient and scalable software solutions with a deep understanding of performance optimization techniques across the stack.
• High proficiency with the AWS ecosystem
• Experience in CI/CD practices with an emphasis on delivering quality software
• Experience being a technical leader in a 100% remote environment, influencing stakeholders across design, engineering, and technology, both within your own organization and across an enterprise

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