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Cars Commerce · 1 day ago

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$154K/yr - $193K/yr

10+ years exp

Cars Commerce is dedicated to simplifying the car buying and selling process through innovative technology. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to enhance customer-facing products and drive technical strategy, ensuring reliability and performance across the platform.

AnalyticsContent MarketingMobile AdvertisingWeb Development

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead full-stack delivery: Direct one or more teams that own several backend services and front-end applications; own the end-to-end delivery of the domain roadmap; set clear objectives, groom several sprints of backlog, and hold the bar on Jira hygiene and velocity transparency

Drive product road-mapping & prioritization: Serve as a strategic partner to Product Managers to translate business goals into measurable milestones and customer outcomes; balance new feature work with technical debt and platform investments

Coach, develop, and scale talent: Provide frequent 1-1s, actionable feedback, and growth plans for senior engineers and leads; mentor emerging managers as the org expands; cultivate a diverse, inclusive culture of psychological safety and continuous learning

Steward production reliability & security: Own SLOs, on-call rotations, incident command, and post-mortem learning; ensure adherence to security and compliance maintenance guidelines and vulnerability-remediation SLAs

Operational excellence through metrics: Use a data-driven approach to continuous improvement, monitoring DORA, change-failure rate, incident MTTR, and CapEx accuracy; initiate improvement plans when trends deviate from targets

Architectural guidance & modernization: Review designs for extensibility, backwards compatibility, and cost efficiency (backend); guide the technical strategy for reusable components, modular architecture, and developer ergonomics (frontend); promote modern practices in CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps across all owned systems

Cross-functional influence: Coordinate integrations with adjacent domains, negotiate timelines and API contracts, and represent Core Services in company-wide program reviews

Hiring & org shaping: Partner with Talent Acquisition to build a diverse pipeline, run structured interviews, and make evidence-based hiring decisions; forecast head-count needs as product scope grows

Qualification

Cloud-native architecturesBackend servicesFront-end applicationsIncident managementAPI-driven systemsObservability stacksDevSecOps pipelinesJiraElixir/PhoenixTypeScript/Deno/Next.JSCoachingCommunication

Required

10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineers

Proven track record shipping and operating business-critical backend services and front-end web applications at scale

Strong background in cloud-native architectures (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)

Event-driven and API-driven systems

Understanding of component libraries, modular front-end systems

Comfortable reviewing designs for scalability, resilience, and cost

Demonstrated ability to plan, forecast capacity, and use Jira, DORA, and DX metrics to drive predictable outcomes and continuous improvement

Skilled at coaching senior/staff engineers, giving direct and constructive feedback, resolving conflict, and fostering an inclusive, high-trust culture aligned with company values

Comfortable co-authoring OKRs, making scope/risk trade-offs, and communicating decisions to executives and cross-functional stakeholders

Familiar with incident management best practices, observability stacks (DataDog), vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps pipelines

Able to tailor technical and non-technical narratives to engineers, product managers, and executives alike

Proven record of influencing beyond direct authority