Staff Software Engineer - Search Platform

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Cars Commerce is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our Marketplace Engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and scaling our next-generation search platform, redefining our search capabilities within our listings marketplace. This is an exciting opportunity to own significant technical challenges, drive architectural decisions, and mentor other engineers within a dynamic and growing team.

About Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we are fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure, and drive local automotive retail. Our brands include Cars.com, Dealer Inspire, AccuTrade, Dealerclub, and the Cars Commerce Media Network.

We foster a culture where collaboration is core, encouraging open communication, diverse thinking, and a commitment to challenging the status quo while taking ownership. Our values include:

• Rise Together: Putting people at the center of everything we do.
• Open to All: Encouraging open-minded communication and diverse thinking.
• Caring to Challenge & Taking Ownership: Fueling a competitive spirit respectfully.
• Doing the Right Thing: Maintaining integrity even when it's difficult.

Cars Commerce is recognized as a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, highlighting our dedication to employee experience, quality of pay, benefits, work-life balance, and more.

Your Role

You will lead the technical vision and execution for our consumer-facing search capabilities within our listings marketplace. You will be in the driver's seat as we build novel search solutions that support frictionless experiences for our users across the Cars.com website and mobile app.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision and execution for our consumer-facing search capabilities within our listings marketplace.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust Server-Driven UI (SDUI) APIs using GraphQL to enable dynamic, flexible client interfaces across mobile and web platforms.
• Write high-performance and reliable backend services utilizing languages such as Elixir, NodeJS, or Python.
• Drive the technical strategy for server-driven UI approaches, enabling dynamic and flexible client interfaces.

Requirements

• Highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer.
• Experience in designing, developing, and scaling search platforms.
• Proficiency in backend development languages such as Elixir, NodeJS, or Python.
• Experience with GraphQL for building Server-Driven UI (SDUI) APIs.
• Ability to drive architectural decisions and mentor other engineers.

Application Instructions

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Company Information

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