Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

About the role

The DevX Tools team is hiring a Software Development Engineer II. The DevX Tools team is part of Engineering Platform's Developer Experience organization. We are responsible for improving the developer experience through tooling, automation, and centralization of critical information needed by developers across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate well-architected software systems that improve the developer experience across CarGurus engineering.
• Build features for Showroom, our internal developer portal that powers deployments, governance, software catalogs, and self-service workflows.
• Support initiatives such as jobs replatforming, AI-powered code review tooling, agent-driven provisioning workflows, AI-powered AWS infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipeline modernization.
• Facilitate the modernization of an internal developer portal into an AI-first developer platform, introducing AI-powered tooling to streamline workflows, enhancing the developer experience, and supporting large-scale, multi-repository engineering environments.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong foundation in Java and familiarity with object-oriented design, algorithms, and data structures.
• Experience building web applications or backend services, ideally with Spring Boot / Spring Framework.
• A systematic approach to debugging issues within a service or module, including performance impacts.
• Understanding of the testing pyramid and experience writing automated tests at multiple levels.
• Familiarity with AWS services, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code practices and CI/CD tooling.
• Exposure to front-end technologies (JavaScript, React, Remix) for building developer-facing UIs is a plus.
• Interest in AI-powered developer tool and agentic workflows

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with version control systems (Git).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).