Senior Software Development Engineer
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
CarGurus’ Listing Services Team is looking for aSenior Software Engineer to help our users find the car they’re looking for as efficiently as possible. See your solutions impact millions of global users every day as you seek challenges such as:
- Improve search experience and performance for millions of users across millions of cars globally
- Make the car shopping experience enjoyable and more transparent
- Help users discover the right car for them
- Enable new ways of buying cars, such as buying online and having your car delivered
- Build out platforms to enable us to iterate faster and respond to our consumers quicker
What you'll do
- Work in a multi-functional team with data analysts, product managers, and of course, other engineers.
- Participate in whiteboard sessions and design conversations on engineering the best solution to the challenges at hand.
- Test out new insights with novel and quick experiments.
- Write clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
- Iterate rapidly and deploy changes daily.
- Collaborate with and be mentored by seasoned engineers.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software.
- Have fun!
What you'll bring
- 5+ years of experience; ideally in fast paced environments; we are pushing new code daily.
- Expert level knowledge of Java (preferred) or similar language.
- Extensive experience with concurrency, multi-threading, web applications and event driven architectures.
- A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis.
- Solid experience in caching strategies, performance tuning.
- Experience in Search Engine Framework and NoSQL is preferred.
- The ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly, with loose direction.
- Able to work across teams with both technical and non-technical partners.
- Willingness to work outside your comfort zones, to evaluate and work with new technologies.
- Data-driven when making decisions.
- Biased towards action and automation.
CarGurus’ Listing Services Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help our users find the car they’re looking for as efficiently as possible. See your solutions impact millions of global users every day as you seek challenges such as:
- Improve search experience and performance for millions of users across millions of cars globally
- Make the car shopping experience enjoyable and more transparent
- Help users discover the right car for them
- Enable new ways of buying cars, such as buying online and having your car delivered
- Build out platforms to enable us to iterate faster and respond to our consumers quicker
- Work in a multi-functional team with data analysts, product managers, and of course, other engineers.
- Participate in whiteboard sessions and design conversations on engineering the best solution to the challenges at hand.
- Test out new insights with novel and quick experiments.
- Write clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
- Iterate rapidly and deploy changes daily.
- Collaborate with and be mentored by seasoned engineers.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software.
- Have fun!
- 5+ years of experience; ideally in fast paced environments; we are pushing new code daily.
- Expert level knowledge of Java (preferred) or similar language.
- Extensive experience with concurrency, multi-threading, web applications and event driven architectures.
- A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis.
- Solid experience in caching strategies, performance tuning.
- Experience in Search Engine Framework and NoSQL is preferred.
- The ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly, with loose direction.
- Able to work across teams with both technical and non-technical partners.
- Willingness to work outside your comfort zones, to evaluate and work with new technologies.
- Data-driven when making decisions.
- Biased towards action and automation.
