Cars Commerce is looking to solve the business and technical problem of building a trusted marketplace that facilitates a simple, fun, and fast experience for car buyers and sellers. This involves building novel Full Stack solutions that support frictionless experiences for users throughout the automotive ecosystem and across the Cars.com website and mobile app experiences, ultimately redefining how value is delivered in the automotive industry.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of web and mobile engineering technologies
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud technologies is a plus.
- Experience in optimizing consumer products within a Marketplace.
- Skilled at capacity planning across both Cap/Op work.
- Strong technical skills in architecture, and have integrated with systems that scale for millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage multiple teams of product engineers, including front-end and back-end engineers.
- Contribute and define the technical vision and roadmap for the Marketplace platform, aligning it with the company's overall business goals.
- Set technical priorities, manage resources, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality projects within budget.
- Identify and implement new technologies and solutions to improve product performance, security, and user experience.
- Maintain a high level of quality control and implement best practices for product engineering.
- Partner with product managers, sales, and marketing teams to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and technology advancements and apply them to help us revolutionize the automotive industry.
Other
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering leadership roles.
- Proven track record of leading and motivating high-performing engineering teams.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills - customer-focused attitude and leadership style.
- Ability to manage complex projects, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
- Knowledge of the automotive industry is a strong asset.
