Cars Commerce · 11 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - Frontend
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$154K/yr - $193K/yr
10+ years expCars Commerce is a company dedicated to simplifying the car buying and selling process through innovative technology. The role of Staff Software Engineer - Frontend involves leading the development of reusable front-end architectures and optimizing user experiences across the platform, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
AnalyticsContent MarketingMobile AdvertisingWeb Development
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead Front-End Architecture: Define and drive reusable, reliable, and scalable front-end architectures across the Cars Commerce platform experiences
Author and Evolve Component Libraries: Lead design and development of shared UI components and design systems, with attention to accessibility, theming, maintainability, and developer ergonomics
Champion UX and Front-End Performance: Optimize user-focused performance across browsers and devices. Partner with design and product to improve interactivity and visual fidelity
Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, and product partners across teams to align on front-end strategies and standards, elevate UI consistency, and reduce duplication
Mentorship and Influence: Serve as a front-end thought leader and mentor, coaching other engineers and shaping team/department-wide best practices
Drive Documentation and DX: Treat components and libraries as products. Develop excellent documentation, innovative usage patterns, and internal developer experience
Contribute Full-Stack as Needed: Collaborate with backend developers to integrate UIs with APIs. While your focus is front-end, you’re comfortable navigating the full stack
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience in frontend engineering, including a deep knowledge of JavaScript (and TypeScript), having working familiarity with, but no loyalty to, multiple frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte, etc)
Expert-level understanding of browser fundamentals: HTML, CSS (Flexbox, Grid), DOM, event lifecycle, rendering, and performance tuning
Strong experience using browser dev tools across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. for layout debugging, JS tracing, and performance profiling
Demonstrated experience architecting and maintaining component-based design systems with support for theming, responsive behavior, and accessibility
Passion for user experience, developer ergonomics, and performance measurement (including Core Web Vitals)
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence others, and align multiple teams around technical direction
Solid understanding of working with back-end technologies, architectural patterns, RESTful APIs, and authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth, JWT, etc.)
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 building production applications using a Server Driven UI (SDUI) approach to build across web and mobile clients
Experience working in a platform or SaaS company
Benefits
Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
Generous PTO
Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day
Company
Cars Commerce
Cars Commerce is an audience-driven technology company that simplifies buying and selling cars.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Alex Vetter
Director, President and CEO
Recent News
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