Sr. Software Engineer

About the role

Join us in shaping the future of Automotive Commerce. Cars Commerce builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers. Our driving force is to deliver a single platform that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars.

Our Websites Engineering Team drives our Dealer Inspire platform. We are embarking on a transformational journey, building innovative and integrated services that redefine how we deliver value to our customers. Dealer Inspire provides innovative websites and digital marketing solutions for thousands of car dealerships. Our platform enables dealerships and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with innovative technical solutions and data-driven intelligence to better reach and influence ready-to-buy shoppers, increase inventory turn, and gain market share.

Our Websites Vehicle Inventory team is the foundation of our Dealer Inspire website platform and powers the data for all our products. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance existing backend services, troubleshoot and optimize current systems, and build scalable, secure, and reliable API-based backend services that power our platform. In this Senior Software Engineer role, you will also mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, code quality, and system architecture to foster a collaborative and high-performing development team.

Responsibilities

• Develop Scalable and Observable Systems: Collaborate with a lead engineer to design and develop high-performance, API-based backend services that meet service level objectives (SLOs) and scale to support growing business needs.
• Own Production Systems: Own the health and uptime of business-critical systems you and your team build. Participate in on-call rotations to quickly resolve incidents and conduct postmortems to drive continuous improvement in system reliability.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to define technical requirements and design scalable, maintainable systems 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 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.
• Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, code quality, and system architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ 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.
• Experience in the Node JS ecosystem and frameworks including NestJS.
• Experience with React JS and TypeScript.
• In-depth experience with RESTful APIs, with the ability to select the appropriate design pattern for different use cases and requirements.
• Experience at scale and solid understanding of PostgreSQL and MySQL, caching strategies with Redis, and messaging systems like Kafka.
• Experience with unit (Jest, phpunit), integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks such as Cypress or Playwright.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling applications in production.
• Experience with AI tools to improve code quality and speed.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability.
• Proven experience designing and implementing observability solutions to ensure system reliability, performance, and uptime in production.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and adapt to changing requirements.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and integrating security throughout the development lifecycle.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software.

Bonus Experience

• PHP and WordPress.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans.
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up.
• Generous PTO.
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day.

Pay

Salary Range: $118,600.00 - $148,250.00.

In addition to base salary, some roles are eligible for our bonus and/or equity programs, depending on level and role. Regular full-time positions are eligible for our comprehensive benefits package.