CARS Software Engineering is looking for great software engineers to join our product
engineering team for the next phase of our business and technical evolution. In 2021, we
launched a new Elixir platform that is allowing us to accelerate our teamwork and transform
Cars.com, a 20-year-old public company, and will ultimately enable our continued innovation
and fuel our mission.
For this role, we are looking for a senior software engineer who is passionate about delighting
customers with sophisticated user experiences, and developing applications using Elixir. Your
work may include, designing message handling systems, implementing notification systems,
building modern front-end interfaces for the systems you build, and constructing GraphQL
resolvers. The ideal candidate has developed and shipped Elixir applications using the Phoenix
Framework, Elasticsearch, LiveView, and TypeScript. In addition to their experience working
across the Elixir application stack, this individual has been a part of Agile development
processes, enjoys solving problems with software, and cares deeply about developing team
culture.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with, mentor, and coach engineers to design, build, maintain, and operate
across all functional areas of the cars.com platform - Work across multi-disciplined product teams and business stakeholders to influence
decisions, and deliver new features as well as platform enhancements - Design high-quality, scalable, efficient software; our primary stack is built in Elixir on the
Phoenix framework and runs in AWS - Influence and drive engineering team culture through Pull Request contributions and
reviews, project and team retrospectives, and identifying opportunities to improve
processes - Participate in an on-call rotation to support platform health, and drive best practices and
improvements to make the CARS products more resilient and easier to maintain - Develop, maintain, and evangelize engineering best practices
- Contribute to clear documentation and testing tools in support of our platform
Required Skills & Experience
- Significant professional software engineering experience (5+ years)
- Built and shipped multiple products, applications, or systems to production
- Some Production Elixir experience; you've built and deployed Elixir to production
- Familiarity with how the BEAM and OTP work, and Elixir libraries Oban, Broadway,
Absinthe - Proficient in front-end programming languages: Javascript, TypeScript, and CSS
- Able to observe, instrument, optimize, and operate what you build (we use Datadog and
Splunk) - Understanding of CI/CD and deployment toolchains; we use CircleCI, Docker, Amazon
ECR, and Helm - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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