Cars Commerce is looking to simplify the car-buying journey on a single, data-driven platform and is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to help revitalize customer-facing tooling across the platform with a comprehensive technical strategy.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineers; proven track record shipping and operating business-critical backend services and front-end web applications at scale.
- Strong background in cloud-native architectures (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), event-driven and API-driven systems; understanding of component libraries, modular front-end systems; comfortable reviewing designs for scalability, resilience, and cost.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, forecast capacity, and use Jira, DORA, and DX metrics to drive predictable outcomes and continuous improvement.
- Skilled at coaching senior/staff engineers, giving direct and constructive feedback, resolving conflict, and fostering an inclusive, high-trust culture aligned with company values.
- Comfortable co-authoring OKRs, making scope/risk trade-offs, and communicating decisions to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Familiar with incident management best practices, observability stacks (DataDog), vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Experience with Elixir/Phoenix and/or TypeScript/Deno/Next.JS technology stacks (bonus points)
Responsibilities
- Lead full-stack delivery: Direct one or more teams that own several backend services and front-end applications; own the end-to-end delivery of the domain roadmap; set clear objectives, groom several sprints of backlog, and hold the bar on Jira hygiene and velocity transparency.
- Drive product road-mapping & prioritization: Serve as a strategic partner to Product Managers to translate business goals into measurable milestones and customer outcomes; balance new feature work with technical debt and platform investments.
- Coach, develop, and scale talent: Provide frequent 1-1s, actionable feedback, and growth plans for senior engineers and leads; mentor emerging managers as the org expands; cultivate a diverse, inclusive culture of psychological safety and continuous learning.
- Steward production reliability & security: Own SLOs, on-call rotations, incident command, and post-mortem learning; ensure adherence to security and compliance maintenance guidelines and vulnerability-remediation SLAs.
- Operational excellence through metrics: Use a data-driven approach to continuous improvement, monitoring DORA, change-failure rate, incident MTTR, and CapEx accuracy; initiate improvement plans when trends deviate from targets.
- Architectural guidance & modernization: Review designs for extensibility, backwards compatibility, and cost efficiency (backend); guide the technical strategy for reusable components, modular architecture, and developer ergonomics (frontend); promote modern practices in CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps across all owned systems.
- Cross-functional influence: Coordinate integrations with adjacent domains, negotiate timelines and API contracts, and represent Core Services in company-wide program reviews.
Other
- 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineers
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (not explicitly mentioned but implied)
- Travel may be required for onsite interviews
- Must be able to work 100% remotely
