Senior Software Engineer, Platform UI
Meet CarGurus—the #1 visited online car shopping website in the US. At CarGurus, we’re building the world’s most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace where it’s easy to find great deals from top-rated dealers.
Founded in 2006 by Langley Steinert (co-founder of TripAdvisor), CarGurus is a technology company with a passion for data and its power to simplify every aspect of the car shopping experience. Using proprietary technology, search algorithms and innovative data analytics, we provide unbiased validation on pricing, dealer reputation and vehicle history.
CarGurus is looking for skilled Front-end Platform Engineers who can help drive the efficiency with which we deliver and evolve our industry leading products. The Front-end Platform team is creating highly scalable, data centric tools that suit the needs of our engineers. These include build systems, testing frameworks, communication frameworks, bots and contextual tooling that allow engineers to make sense of a complex environment. The Frontend Platform team also works with other engineering teams to benchmark and evolve the general approach taken towards developing our modern UI’s.
What You'll Do:
- Create cutting edge UI tools from design through implementation.
- Continue to support the modernization of our web and mobile experience.
- Identify and address performance issues.
- Contribute to frontend infrastructure focused on scaling and performance.
- Have a say in future direction of technologies and best practices that will be able to scale form hundreds engineers to thousands.
Who You Are:
- 3+ years of experience; ideally in fast paced environments; we are pushing new code daily
- Strong expertise in JavaScript
- Experience with React or similar framework
- Experience with Node.js
- Able to mockup, prototype, and write production ready code
- Solid web design, layout, typography and iconography skills
- Familiarity with Git or other control systems
- Willingness to work outside your comfort zones, to evaluate and work with new technologies
- Data-driven and test oriented
CarGurus Culture:
At the core of our company culture is a spirit of innovation, curiosity and collaboration. True to our start-up roots, we’re nimble, flexible and hardworking. We have a great respect for testing and learning and a healthy aversion to scheduling meetings to discuss meetings. Lunch is catered daily. Gym membership is free. Foosball and ping pong are played often. Now a publicly-traded company, we’re as committed as ever to cultivating the culture that got us here.
In addition to the US, CarGurus operates sites in Canada, the UK and Germany with other markets on the horizon. Our offices are located in Cambridge, MA, Detroit, MI and Dublin, Ireland. If you’d like to learn more, please visit our careers page.