Cars Commerce is looking to build novel Front End solutions that support frictionless experiences for their users throughout the automotive ecosystem, and across the Cars.com website and MobileApp experiences.
Requirements
- 7+ years of front end software engineering experience, including a deep knowledge of JavaScript (and TypeScript), Web Components, and having working familiarity with various web 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).
- Solid understanding of working with back-end technologies and architectural patterns.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence others, and align multiple teams around technical direction.
Responsibilities
- build novel Front End solutions that support frictionless experiences for our users throughout the automotive ecosystem, and across the Cars.com website (and MobileApp experiences)
- owning both product and engineering driven projects, including collaborating through the discovery process to arrive at a technical solution, working to execute upon that solution, and shipping that solution to millions of users.
- work closely with our backend, iOS, and Android teams in order to deliver simultaneously across all of our user-facing channels, first defining our API contracts, and then working in parallel with your counterparts to deliver high-quality experiences to millions.
- guide technical decisions and be instrumental in empowering more junior team members in reaching their personal career goals through your mentorship.
- help define the what and the how around engineering for our organization.
- shape how millions of people shop for their next car on Cars.com.
Other
- 100% remote team (onsite interviews may be required)
- This role has a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity
- You will be working with junior and senior engineers within your team and throughout engineering, as well as cross functional stakeholders in product, design, and data to take projects from idea to done.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
