Sr. Software Engineer I @ Cars Commerce

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.

CARS Software Engineering is looking for great software engineers to join our product
engineering team for the next phase of our business and technical evolution. In 2021, we
launched a new Elixir platform that is allowing us to accelerate our teamwork and transform
Cars.com, a 20-year-old public company, and will ultimately enable our continued innovation
and fuel our mission.

For this role, we are 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/LiveView 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 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
Comfortable with front-end programing languages such as JavaScript, CSS, TypeScript
Able to observe, instrument, optimize, and operate what you build (we use Datadog)
Understanding of CI/CD and deployment toolchains; we use CircleCI, Docker, AWS
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—$164,300 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!

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Sr. Software Engineer I

Elixir

Cars Commerce

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