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Cars Commerce · 1 day ago

Lead Sr. Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$135K/yr - $169K/yr

8+ years exp

Cars Commerce is dedicated to simplifying the car buying and selling process through innovative technology. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and develop scalable backend systems and APIs that connect consumers with dealerships, ensuring a seamless lead delivery process. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive best practices in engineering.

AnalyticsContent MarketingMobile AdvertisingWeb Development

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design and Develop Strategic, Scalable Systems: Lead the architecture, design, and development of high-performance, API-based backend services, making strategic, forward-looking architectural decisions that meet service level objectives (SLOs) and scale to support long-term, growing business needs

Define Technical Strategy: Analyze current state, anticipate future technical challenges, and help define the technical roadmap for your domain, ensuring architectural choices are scalable, sustainable, and align with the broader company vision

Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to define technical requirements and design scalable, maintainable system architectures that align with business goals and product roadmaps

Implement DevSecOps Practices: Champion and implement continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and security practices throughout the development lifecycle to ensure the reliability, observability and security of production systems

Drive Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Ensure comprehensive documentation of API designs, system architectures, and operational procedures to enable internal teams and external customers to easily build and integrate with the APIs in a self-service manner

Qualification

API designBackend developmentAWSMicroservices architectureCI/CD pipelinesSecurity principlesDockerKubernetesRESTful APIsObservability solutionsGraphQLGRPCRelational databasesNoSQL databasesCaching strategiesMessaging systemsCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

8+ years of experience in backend development with a strong focus on designing, building, and operating large-scale and highly available systems, including microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems

Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced Agile environment

Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and adapt to changing requirements

Extensive hands-on experience with AWS and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling applications in production

In-depth experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and gRPC, with the ability to select the appropriate design pattern for different use cases and requirements

Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, caching strategies, and messaging systems, with hands-on experience in implementing these technologies at scale

Proven experience designing and implementing observability solutions (e.g., DataDog) to ensure system reliability, performance, and uptime in production

A solid understanding of security principles, including data encryption, access control, and secure API design

Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and integrating security throughout the development lifecycle

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability

Preferred

Experience with Elixir and Phoenix framework is a plus. Candidates without Elixir experience but with a strong background in distributed systems, services, APIs, and backend development who are willing to learn Elixir are encouraged to apply