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:
Data is the driver for our future at Cars Commerce. We’re searching for a collaborative, analytical, and innovative engineer to build scalable and highly performant platforms, systems and tools to enable innovations with data. If you are passionate about building large scale systems and data driven products, we want to hear from you.
The Analytics Engineer within the Consumer Data Platform team focuses on enabling cars commerce to make informed and timely product decisions and also improve our marketing efficiencies and reach. The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data engineering, and analytics (product and marketing) teams. You will be responsible for extracting, transforming, and integrating data and/or working with business partners. Utilizing analytics engineering tools and techniques , you will work in role that requires both the business acumen and contextual understanding of a data analyst and the technical skillset of a data engineer. You will be the subject matter expert of various datasets within the consumer domain.
Responsibilities Include:
- Codify the intent and context, implement data integrations and apply governance in the raw data to enable analytics and machine learning teams to build applications and drive insights.
- You will work with Product and Marketing to understand data applications and their relationship to business outcomes in depth. They will also work with other tech teams to develop and maintain the transformation layer using an engineering-first approach.
- You will also own the architecture of the integrations involved in CDP, rETL solutions and event generation systems. They will also maintain the documentation of business logic involved in transforming raw data.
- You will build assets that help improve trust in data (bot, ad-blocker logic) while also making data more accessible and explainable (helping teams understand u’sers’ intent behind activities).
- Be the resident expert in tag management.
Required Skills
- Experience with one or more query language (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, HiveQL, SparkSQL)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java.
- Experience with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow or similar frameworks.
- Experience with source code management systems such as Github and developing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, Github Action or CircleCI for data.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to design, develop and debug at a cross-project level.
- Experience in the AWS (or any cloud services provider) environment and modern developer first data stacks like Rudderstack, Hightouch etc.
Required Experience
- Data or Software Engineering | 3+ years of designing & developing complex, real-time applications at enterprise scale; specifically Python and/or Scala.
- Analytics Ecosystem | 2+ years of hands-on, professional experience with analytical tools and platforms like Adobe, Amplitude or Google Analytics.
- AWS (preferred) Cloud | 2+ years of professional experience.
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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
$101,100—$126,400 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
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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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