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Cars Commerce · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$176K/yr - $220K/yr

10+ years exp

Cars Commerce is dedicated to simplifying the car buying and selling process through innovative technology. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the Marketplace Engineering team to develop full stack solutions that enhance user experiences across the Cars.com platform.

AnalyticsContent MarketingMobile AdvertisingWeb Development

No H1B

Responsibilities

Drive technical excellence by championing best practices in software design, operational maturity, and engineering quality across the organization

Have a high degree of agency, autonomy, and ambiguity: You’ll work with our platform and feature teams as well as our iOS and Android mobile engineering team to determine technical needs and constraints

Act as a trusted partner and advisor to the Marketplace teams —aligning technical solutions with business goals, guiding complex decisions, and balancing near-term delivery with long-term scalability

Be a leader and a mentor – enabling teams around you to deliver effectively and efficiently. Outside of engineering, you’ll be working with cross-functional teams such as product, marketing, analytics, and data to understand our short-term and long-term business objectives and need to reconcile competing demands, constraints, and requirements across all of these stakeholders in order to devise technical solutions

Lead by example through hands-on contributions to high-impact, cross-functional projects, embedding with engineering teams to guide architecture, design, and implementation decisions

Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and trust by building strong relationships across teams, encouraging open communication, and influencing through empathy and credibility

Mentor and support engineers across all levels, helping them grow in technical depth, architectural thinking, and leadership skills

Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, identifying opportunities to modernize our tech stack and improve development velocity

Socialize and implement this solution, taking particular care to ensure we have tight feedback loops so we can practice continuous improvement and ensuring the entire organization is ascribing to the best practices you put forth

Leader and a force multiplier. Not only will you bridge systems technically, you’ll be bridging the gap between organizations to ensure that we can all arrive at the best solution we can given the information we have available

Qualification

Software engineeringArchitecting distributed systemsGraphQLMobile app developmentTechnical leadershipContinuous improvementAI Agent developmentMentoringCollaborationCommunicationProblem-solving

Required

10+ years of aggregate software engineering experience

5+ years of experience architecting high-traffic, large-scale distributed software systems and establishing best practices

Knowledge of how to craft a vision for a technical platform, weighing both business and technical goals and concerns, and effectively selling that vision to decision makers as well as the individuals chartered to execute upon that vision

The ability to create training programs to onboard engineers onto new technologies, systems, and architectures, and up-level those already privy

Technical knowledge from working with web and mobile apps, either backend systems that support the apps or the apps themselves

Experience being a technical leader in a 100% remote environment, influencing stakeholders across design, engineering, and technology, both within your own organization and across an enterprise