Lead Senior Software Engineer

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

We're seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Senior Software Engineer to help us redefine our search capabilities within our listings marketplace. In this pivotal role, you'll be a lead engineer for your team's day-to-day software engineering operations, taking ownership of engineering-driven and product-driven projects from idea to completion with minimal oversight. You'll be instrumental in designing, developing, and scaling our next-generation search platform. This is an exciting opportunity to tackle significant technical challenges, drive architectural decisions for your team, and actively mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision and execution for our consumer-facing search capabilities, serving as a primary engineering lead for your team.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable search infrastructure using frameworks like OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, or Solr, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Write high-performance and reliable backend services using languages such as Elixir, NodeJS, or Python, and actively drive the definition of team style guides and best practices.
• Develop and implement GraphQL APIs to efficiently serve content to front-end applications, considering non-happy-path scenarios, negative testing, and threat modeling to enhance system maturity at the team level.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of our search platform.

Company Information

About 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.

Our Values

• Rise Together: Putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community.
• Open to All: Encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes.
• Caring to Challenge & Taking Ownership: Fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today.
• Doing the Right Thing: Acting with integrity, even when it’s hard.

About Cars.com

At Cars.com, we’re passionate about helping shoppers meet their perfect car match, and job seekers their perfect career 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. We welcome hard conversations and collaborate with each other to find solutions while focusing on the outcome at hand. Cars.com has revolutionized the automotive industry for both shoppers and sellers alike through technology, and we’d love to have you join us to boldly ride into the future.

Cars.com is a CARS brand, which also includes Dealer Inspire, DealerRater, FUEL, CreditIQ and Accu-Trade. Learn more here.

Recognition

• U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024.
• 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.

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