Technical Fellow, Software Engineering
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’ looking to hire aTechnical Fellow as part of our Engineering Platform team to help us drive towards highly-scalable, resilient, cloud-architected services and applications that address our long term business goals. We are constantly modernizing our technology and are looking for someone who is experienced in architecting cloud-first services on top of AWS cloud while ensuring they provide a great developer experience.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the architectural design and strategy to achieve scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-architected services within AWS
- Make specific recommendations of AWS technologies and offerings which complement or replace internally developed systems to accelerate delivery and reduce long-term maintenance.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team, mentoring junior engineers, conducting code reviews, and promoting a culture of engineering excellence operating in the cloud.
- Drive the adoption of best practices for cloud-native development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize architectural requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
- Drive platform innovation and modernization initiatives, evaluating emerging technologies and industry trends to enhance developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and optimize costs.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates on platform initiatives, solicit feedback, and address concerns or issues.
- Lead efforts to optimize platform performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, leveraging cloud-native services and infrastructure.
Who you are:
- 10+ years of experience in software and systems architecture with at least 5 years experience in AWS architecture.
- Experience with helping organizations manage iterative cloud transformation while delivering value at each stage of progress.
- Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud services.
- Comfortable operating in a wide array of software languages such as: Java, JavaScript, Golang, and Python.
- Solid understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and GitHub.
- Experienced software engineer with a deep understanding of architecture, cloud computing, and platform engineering.
- Excellent communication skills and can effectively articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactive and forward-thinking, constantly seeking out opportunities to innovate and drive the evolution of the platform.
- Committed to ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of production systems and services, and takes pride in delivering value to customers through a robust and resilient platform.
- Passionate about improving developer productivity and efficiency through the adoption of best practices, automation, and tooling.
Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
Role Overview
CarGurus’ looking to hire a Technical Fellow as part of our Engineering Platform team to help us drive towards highly-scalable, resilient, cloud-architected services and applications that address our long term business goals. We are constantly modernizing our technology and are looking for someone who is experienced in architecting cloud-first services on top of AWS cloud while ensuring they provide a great developer experience.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the architectural design and strategy to achieve scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-architected services within AWS
- Make specific recommendations of AWS technologies and offerings which complement or replace internally developed systems to accelerate delivery and reduce long-term maintenance.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team, mentoring junior engineers, conducting code reviews, and promoting a culture of engineering excellence operating in the cloud.
- Drive the adoption of best practices for cloud-native development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize architectural requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
- Drive platform innovation and modernization initiatives, evaluating emerging technologies and industry trends to enhance developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and optimize costs.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates on platform initiatives, solicit feedback, and address concerns or issues.
- Lead efforts to optimize platform performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, leveraging cloud-native services and infrastructure.
Who you are:
- 10+ years of experience in software and systems architecture with at least 5 years experience in AWS architecture.
- Experience with helping organizations manage iterative cloud transformation while delivering value at each stage of progress.
- Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud services.
- Comfortable operating in a wide array of software languages such as: Java, JavaScript, Golang, and Python.
- Solid understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and GitHub.
- Experienced software engineer with a deep understanding of architecture, cloud computing, and platform engineering.
- Excellent communication skills and can effectively articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactive and forward-thinking, constantly seeking out opportunities to innovate and drive the evolution of the platform.
- Committed to ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of production systems and services, and takes pride in delivering value to customers through a robust and resilient platform.
- Passionate about improving developer productivity and efficiency through the adoption of best practices, automation, and tooling.
Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid
