Software Engineer II, Listing Services
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 core member of the Listing Services team, this Software Engineer II will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data analysts and product managers, to guide projects from concept through technical design, implementation, testing, and performance measurement. This person will also develop and deploy clean, well-tested, efficient, and production-ready code, ensuring high standards of quality and performance.
What you’ll do
- Improve search experience and performance for millions of users across millions of cars globally.
- Ensure reliable and timely production support for mission-critical Listing Service applications, maintaining optimal performance and addressing high-priority incidents with efficiency.
- Participate in whiteboard sessions and design conversations on engineering the best solution to the challenges at hand.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software.
What you’ll bring
- Familiar with Java (preferred) or similar language.
- Experience with concurrency, multi-threading, web applications and event driven architectures.
- A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis.
- Proven expertise in optimizing application performance through the design and implementation of efficient caching strategies and performance improvement techniques.
- Data-driven when making decisions.
- Experience in Search Engine Framework and NoSQL is preferred.
As a core member of the Listing Services team, this Software Engineer II will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data analysts and product managers, to guide projects from concept through technical design, implementation, testing, and performance measurement. This person will also develop and deploy clean, well-tested, efficient, and production-ready code, ensuring high standards of quality and performance.
- Improve search experience and performance for millions of users across millions of cars globally.
- Ensure reliable and timely production support for mission-critical Listing Service applications, maintaining optimal performance and addressing high-priority incidents with efficiency.
- Participate in whiteboard sessions and design conversations on engineering the best solution to the challenges at hand.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software.
- Familiar with Java (preferred) or similar language.
- Experience with concurrency, multi-threading, web applications and event driven architectures.
- A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis.
- Proven expertise in optimizing application performance through the design and implementation of efficient caching strategies and performance improvement techniques.
- Data-driven when making decisions.
- Experience in Search Engine Framework and NoSQL is preferred.
