JavaScript Engineer II, Consumer Mobile App
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination.
Job Description
Role overview
We are hiring for a frontend engineer on our Consumer App team to build features and develop solutions to drive our consumer-facing mobile app forward. Consumer is the core functionality of our business and mobile app is one of our fastest growing business areas!
The Consumer Mobile App team is rebuilding and reimagining our entire user experience to help our customers find the perfect car for them, at a fair price. You will have the opportunity to realize this vision, building out mobile-focused features (largely in React Native and TypeScript) to make our app fast, responsive, and flexible. You will be building net-new features for our most engaged audience.
What you'll do
- Build differentiated mobile app experiences, release architecture, and improvements to our mobile app ecosystems
- Collaborate with a UX team to build accessible, user-friendly features
- Regularly ship changes to a mobile app with millions of users
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, and deploy
- Share your technical expertise during architectural design discussions and technology selection
- Collaborate with your colleagues in a lively, congenial atmosphere
What you'll bring
- 3+ years of experience working in JavaScript development
- Experience with TypeScript, and React
- Experience with React Native or mobile development is a plus (not required)
- Passionate about continuous learning of React ecosystems and open source technology
- Passionate about performant, extensible code
- Understanding and interest in consumer experiences
- Experience with Agile processes
- Skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit and strong attention to detail
- Ownership mindset
- Experience with AppsFlyer or other MMPs is a plus
- Experience with Swift/Kotlin/Objective-C/Java is a plus
Role overview
We are hiring for a frontend engineer on our Consumer App team to build features and develop solutions to drive our consumer-facing mobile app forward. Consumer is the core functionality of our business and mobile app is one of our fastest growing business areas!
The Consumer Mobile App team is rebuilding and reimagining our entire user experience to help our customers find the perfect car for them, at a fair price. You will have the opportunity to realize this vision, building out mobile-focused features (largely in React Native and TypeScript) to make our app fast, responsive, and flexible. You will be building net-new features for our most engaged audience.
What you'll do
- Build differentiated mobile app experiences, release architecture, and improvements to our mobile app ecosystems
- Collaborate with a UX team to build accessible, user-friendly features
- Regularly ship changes to a mobile app with millions of users
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, and deploy
- Share your technical expertise during architectural design discussions and technology selection
- Collaborate with your colleagues in a lively, congenial atmosphere
What you'll bring
- 3+ years of experience working in JavaScript development
- Experience with TypeScript, and React
- Experience with React Native or mobile development is a plus (not required)
- Passionate about continuous learning of React ecosystems and open source technology
- Passionate about performant, extensible code
- Understanding and interest in consumer experiences
- Experience with Agile processes
- Skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit and strong attention to detail
- Ownership mindset
- Experience with AppsFlyer or other MMPs is a plus
- Experience with Swift/Kotlin/Objective-C/Java is a plus
