Cars
Staff Software Engineer
Chicago, IL · Staff+ · Full-time
No sponsorship$154k-$193kDetected 12 days ago
Node.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisDynamoDBAWSCI/CDDatadogAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTgRPCKafkaOAuthCybersecurityTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration.
- In fact, it's built into the very fabric of our shared values.
- But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, work breakdown, and development of high-performance, API-based backend services that meet service-level objectives (SLOs) and scale with growing business demands
- Champion technical excellence by promoting best practices in system design, operational maturity, and engineering quality across the team
- Work closely with engineering, design, and product partners across teams to align on back-end strategies and standards, elevate the use of back-end, API and integration consistency, and reduce duplication.
- Develop excellent documentation, innovative usage patterns, and internal developer experience.
- Cars Commerce builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers.
Requirements
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
- For US-based Positions: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Please note that we are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.
- For US-based Positions: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
Skills
- Why You'll Be Excited About This Role
Compensation
- $154,200.00-192,750.00
Company info
- At Cars Commerce, we're fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling.
- We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail.
- At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it's hard.
- We are proud to be named one of Built In's 2026 Best Places to Work in Chicago and across the U.S. Ready to make your mark?
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
Visa & Work Authorization
- For US-based Positions: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
This listing is sourced directly from Cars's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.