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CarGurus · 2 days ago

Software Development Engineer II, Algorithmic Traffic Acquisition

positionBoston, MA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityEntry, Mid Level
money$128K/yr - $160K/yr
date2+ years exp

CarGurus is the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, focused on bringing trust and transparency to car shopping. The role involves managing SEM advertising, optimizing marketing spend, and collaborating with the marketing team to enhance ad efficiency and content generation.

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Responsibilities

You will be part of a high-performing team responsible for managing millions of dollars of spend that brings over 40 million visitors a month to CarGurus and Autolist
You will work closely with the marketing team and other engineers to improve our ad reach and efficiency
Write well-tested and maintainable code to build and manage a highly performant system
Collect and analyze data to build efficient models to improve efficiency of our marketing efforts

Qualification

Software development experienceKotlinSQLJavaC#Database performance tuningAWSCommunicatorData analysisAd content generationPredictive modelingTerraformTeam collaboration

Required

2-4 years of hands-on software development experience, building modern software applications in a professional setting
Strong ability to write high quality code and tests
Knowledge of SQL, especially MySQL, Snowflake and Postgres and tuning database performance
Good communicator comfortable working closely with marketing team
Our Current Tech Environment: AWS, Kotlin, Java, MySQL, Postgres, Snowflake

Preferred

Familiarity with Kotlin
Experience with Terraform or AWS

Benefits

Daily free lunch
A new car discount
Meditation and fitness apps
Commuting cost coverage

Company

CarGurus

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CarGurus is an online automotive destination that assists users in contacting sellers and comparing local listings for new and used cars.
dateFounded in 2006
location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
http://www.cargurus.com

H1B Sponsorship

CarGurus has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (37)
2024 (38)
2023 (36)
2022 (50)
2021 (27)
2020 (23)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1.75M
2022-08-11Post Ipo Secondary
2017-10-11IPO
2017-08-16Series A· $1.75M

Leadership Team

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Jason Trevisan
Chief Executive Officer
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Ben Kasdon
Vice President, Product
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