Senior JavaScript Engineer, Engagement Team
Headquartered in Boston, 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
The Engagement team at CarGurus is looking for a skilled front-end engineer to help mentor others and drive exciting projects in the automotive and communications space. We are looking for a front end expert with full stack chops, who will act as the lead front end engineer and play a huge part in helping transform the way CarGurus communicates with its users and help increase site stickiness. This includes SMS, Push, Email and on site experiences.
This is a very exciting time for CarGurus and is a huge opportunity for you to be a part of something truly amazing. Our startup DNA means we particularly value a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives. Come help build the next phase of CarGurus!
What you'll do
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, and data analysts to take an idea from concept to technical design to implementation to testing to measurement.
- Pitch in wherever there will be the greatest impact. This could be anything from implementing a new full consumer facing feature, to integrating with a key partner or technology, to a quick vapor or A/B test to help determine what’s next.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software.
- Advocate for new technology and new methodologies
- Continuously learn and expand your capabilities
- Have fun!
What you'll bring
- Expert understanding of modern JavaScript and ES6 concepts, ideally in fast paced environments
- Good understanding of full stack development so you can pitch in on backend focused Java tasks too
- Excel at developing well-structured, performant web applications using modern a JavaScript framework like React, Remix and and other front end technologies
- Experience with email/sms/push notifications a plus
- Experience with CSS and HTML5
- Passionate about building a great UI/UX experience through continuous improvements and testing (E2E and unit tests)
- Experience developing large-scale application software
- A solid understanding of data structures
- Have the ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly, with loose direction
- You’re a skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit
- 3+ years of relevant work experience needed
Role overview
The Engagement team at CarGurus is looking for a skilled front-end engineer to help mentor others and drive exciting projects in the automotive and communications space. We are looking for a front end expert with full stack chops, who will act as the lead front end engineer and play a huge part in helping transform the way CarGurus communicates with its users and help increase site stickiness. This includes SMS, Push, Email and on site experiences.
This is a very exciting time for CarGurus and is a huge opportunity for you to be a part of something truly amazing. Our startup DNA means we particularly value a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives. Come help build the next phase of CarGurus!
What you'll do
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, and data analysts to take an idea from concept to technical design to implementation to testing to measurement.
- Pitch in wherever there will be the greatest impact. This could be anything from implementing a new full consumer facing feature, to integrating with a key partner or technology, to a quick vapor or A/B test to help determine what’s next.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software.
- Advocate for new technology and new methodologies
- Continuously learn and expand your capabilities
- Have fun!
What you'll bring
- Expert understanding of modern JavaScript and ES6 concepts, ideally in fast paced environments
- Good understanding of full stack development so you can pitch in on backend focused Java tasks too
- Excel at developing well-structured, performant web applications using modern a JavaScript framework like React, Remix and and other front end technologies
- Experience with email/sms/push notifications a plus
- Experience with CSS and HTML5
- Passionate about building a great UI/UX experience through continuous improvements and testing (E2E and unit tests)
- Experience developing large-scale application software
- A solid understanding of data structures
- Have the ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly, with loose direction
- You’re a skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit
- 3+ years of relevant work experience needed
