Principal Software Engineer - Enterprise Data Architecture

Position Overview

Join Cars Commerce and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Automotive Commerce. Our Enterprise Architecture Team is embarking on a transformative journey to build innovative services that will redefine how we deliver value. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the Data Architecture domain at Cars Commerce, an exceptional opportunity to influence the future of our platforms and drive meaningful change at scale to make an impact on the industry.

Our Modern Data Driven Products are at the core of the Cars Commerce Platform and critical to our success. We enable customers, consumers, and internal stakeholders to use data to fulfill their goals, from car shoppers finding the right car and seller, to partners garnering insights into their inventory and selling patterns to improve profits. Our data is key to acquiring, transforming, storing, analyzing, and producing the information that enables our products and business owners to turn information into insights and outcomes.

As a Principal Software Engineer responsible for our Enterprise Data Architecture, you will be a leader in shaping our data ecosystem. Your leadership and cross-company collaborations are essential to enabling the full potential of our data. Data as a service is part of our product development philosophy, enabling asynchronous and real-time AI/ML based features. Additionally, you’ll be key in helping evolve our business strategy and tactics for data-driven analysis and decision making. You will be a technical driver facilitating continuous progress across diverse teams within Technology, Product, Analytics, Marketing, Sales, and Finance. This role is part of a high performing team that is visible and present across the company. This role is a unique opportunity to architect the next generation of our AI/ML enhanced data driven evolution and can make meaningful impacts starting day one.

This role reports to the Sr. Director of Platform Engineering who oversees our centralized Architecture team and Core Services critical to all of our products.

Why You'll Be Excited About This Role:

This opportunity enables you to:

• Influence Data and Data Architecture across the enterprise.

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 Culture:

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.

Recognition:

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.

Employment Type

• Full time

Location Type

• 100% remote. May require onsite interviews.

Salary

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