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, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, 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 Challengeand 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.

Software Engineer for the Leads Platform Team in Core Services

About the Role

Cars Commerce builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers. Our driving force is to deliver one platform to simplify everything about buying and selling cars.  Our platform enables dealerships and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with innovative technical solutions and data-driven intelligence to better reach and influence ready-to-buy shoppers, increase inventory turn, and gain market share. To support the growth and tighter integration of our existing brands like Cars.com, Dealer Inspire, and AccuTrade, we are seeking a Software Engineer to build scalable, secure, and reliable API-based backend services that enable the Cars Commerce platform. 

About You

In this role you will be supporting projects, collaborating with your team, and raising development standards. You will be instrumental in helping us build and operate systems that deliver value to both automotive consumers and customers. You believe in quality and accountability. You have experience in web application & API development, including experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ve contributed code to production applications, and have experience working with developer tools to build, test, and deploy code. You are a reliable contributor on your team and have a track record of completing work on time and to specification. You have a desire to learn and the ability to be curious. You are driven by gaining knowledge and growing your career.

This role is positioned within our Core Services Engineering team and works closely with our various Platform Engineering teams to collaborate on new projects, operate and maintain the existing platform, and look ahead to what is in our Engineering roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Develop Scalable and Observable Systems: Work with a lead or senior engineer to implement and build high-performance, API-based backend services that meet performance and availability goals.

• Support Production Systems: Help maintain the health and uptime of business-critical systems. Participate in on-call rotations to help resolve incidents and assist with postmortems to improve system reliability.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and contribute to the design of maintainable systems that align with business goals.

• Contribute to DevSecOps Practices: Help to implement and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and security practices to ensure the reliability and security of production systems.

• Document and Share Knowledge: Contribute to the documentation of API designs, system architectures, and operational procedures to help internal teams and external customers easily understand and use the APIs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• At least 2-5 years of experience in backend development with a focus on building and operating systems, including microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems

• Experience delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced Agile environment

• Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively on cross-functional teams and adapt to changing requirements

• Hands-on experience with AWS and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying and monitoring applications

• Experience building RESTful APIs and authoring API documentation

• Experience using PostgreSQL or other relational databases

• Familiarity with implementing observability solutions (e.g., in DataDog) to ensure system reliability and performance

• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Github Actions) and automated testing

• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems

• Experience with Elixir and the Phoenix framework is a plus. Candidates without Elixir experience but with a background in distributed systems, services, APIs, and backend development who are willing to learn new technologies are encouraged to apply

Salary Range

$104,100.00-130,150.00

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans

• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up

• 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

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