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, 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. About the Role {100% remote in the Chicago area. May require onsite interviews] Join us in shaping the future of Automotive Commerce. Cars Commerce builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers. Our driving force is to deliver a single platform that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars. At Cars Commerce, we’re passionate about helping shoppers meet their perfect car match. Our culture of openness, growth, innovation, and diversity starts with people. Every day we’re hyper-focused on helping people find their perfect match, build relationships, and deliver results. Our Marketplace Engineering Team drives our cars.com platform. We are on a transformational journey, building innovative and integrated services that redefine how we deliver value to our customers and consumers.. As a Lead Software Engineer on our Marketplace Engineering Team, you will help revitalize our customer-facing tooling across our platform with a comprehensive technical strategy to simplify and amplify these user experiences and the capabilities they enable. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of our platform and drive meaningful change at scale, making a lasting impact within the automotive industry. About You [Must be based in Chicago area] This is an exciting role because as a Lead Software Engineer with the Marketplace Team, you will help tens of millions of people like you and me find their perfect car match each year, with our 4.7 star rated Android and 4.8 star rated iOS apps being a critical part of our strategy. Our mission on the Marketplace Engineering team is to build a trusted marketplace that facilitates a simple, fun, and fast experience for car buyers and sellers. We are seeking candidates who possess deep expertise in Frontend technologies with exposure to backend, a passion for thoughtful user experience design, and the ability to build services that are innovative, intuitive, and impactful for our users. By joining our team you will be in the driver’s seat as we build novel Full Stack solutions that support frictionless experiences for our users throughout the automotive ecosystem, and across the Cars.com website and MobileApp experiences. You’ll work across team boundaries to design and develop components as well as performance-optimized backend systems that scale across cars.com We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of aggregate software engineering experience to design and evangelize how we engineer products leveraging state of the art industry best practices. Why You'll Be Excited About This Role This opportunity enables you to... Drive technical excellence by championing best practices in software design, operational maturity, and engineering quality across teams Have a high degree of agency, autonomy, and ambiguity: You’ll work with our platform and feature teams as well as our iOS and Android mobile engineering team to determine technical needs and constraints.