CarGurus' Front End Platforms team needs an Engineering Manager to modernize the technology platform, improve developer efficiency, and enable teams to build performant and scalable UIs, leading best practices for Front End Engineering.
Requirements
- Expertise with JavaScript and/or TypeScript, NodeJS Frameworks and libraries, and React
- Direct experience with Remix or Next is a huge advantage.
- Highly proficient with HTML and CSS
- People-focused technical leader with 2+ years of experience
- 5+ years of product software development experience at scale
Responsibilities
- You'll manage a team of talented engineers while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the broader team.
- Your team is primarily responsible for maintaining our design system and our microservice template for building isomorphic Remix and React applications.
- Your team's mission is to enable engineering teams to build highly-performant, scalable, excellent products through advocating for architectural standards and providing common UI libraries and tooling.
- You will use your leadership expertise to drive groups with disparate interests to decisions, seeing those through to impact.
- You will make pragmatic decisions, balancing strategic and tactical needs.
- You will help senior leadership manage risk and make sure we are making the right trade-off decisions.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving software
Other
- Excellent communicator who can tailor messaging based on audience, which can range from junior engineers to senior business leaders to third-party vendors
- Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations
- Strong project management skills, experience with Agile methodologies
- Excellent collaborator with proven experience working in a cross-functional team including Product, Design, Analytics, Marketing
- Detail oriented leader who makes data-driven decisions
