Principal Software Engineer, Algorithmic Traffic Acquisition
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
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Algorithmic Traffic Acquisition team, you'll be part of a high-performing team responsible for managing millions of dollars of spend that brings over 40 million visitors a month to CarGurus. As a member of Team Content, you'll fuel our network of ads, finding ways to drive efficiency and expand our reach.
What you'll do
- Work closely with product managers and other engineers to identify opportunities and drive initiatives for improving our ad reach and efficiency
- Participate in regular meetings with our ad partners (e.g. Google, MSN, Meta) to provide technical insight and guidance
- Build, maintain, and improve highly performant systems written with clean, well-tested code
- Maintain an internal UI for managing our ad program
- Provide technical leadership across ATA, refining to our overall approach to design and architecture and setting standards for the team to follow
- Mentor junior engineers, helping them to improve by consistently providing thoughtful feedback and technical advice
What you'll bring
- Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred), Java, or C#
- Experience writing efficient queries in SQL and tuning database performance
- Experience working in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environment with daily code deploys
- Self-starter who proactively seeks out new opportunities to leverage our ad partners' offerings
- Excellent communicator comfortable working closely with less technical stakeholders
- Experience with noSQL databases (Snowflake, Redis) is a plus
- Experience in Terraform/AWS is a plus
- Experience in React is a plus
Role overview
- Work closely with product managers and other engineers to identify opportunities and drive initiatives for improving our ad reach and efficiency
- Participate in regular meetings with our ad partners (e.g. Google, MSN, Meta) to provide technical insight and guidance
- Build, maintain, and improve highly performant systems written with clean, well-tested code
- Maintain an internal UI for managing our ad program
- Provide technical leadership across ATA, refining to our overall approach to design and architecture and setting standards for the team to follow
- Mentor junior engineers, helping them to improve by consistently providing thoughtful feedback and technical advice
- Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred), Java, or C#
- Experience writing efficient queries in SQL and tuning database performance
- Experience working in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environment with daily code deploys
- Self-starter who proactively seeks out new opportunities to leverage our ad partners' offerings
- Excellent communicator comfortable working closely with less technical stakeholders
- Experience with noSQL databases (Snowflake, Redis) is a plus
- Experience in Terraform/AWS is a plus
- Experience in React is a plus
