Cars

Cars

Principal Software Engineer (hands-on)

United States, Remote · Principal · Full-time

No sponsorship$176k-$220kDetected 12 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsKafkaLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationCommunication

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 Challengeand Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today.

Responsibilities

  • This team owns the high-concurrency engines-Identity, Inventory, and Leads-that power a multi-billion dollar marketplace.
  • We leverage Claude Code to bypass the "boilerplate tax," allowing our engineers to spend the majority of their time on high-order systems design rather than routine implementation.
  • Define the evolution of our services to support sub-second latency and massive concurrency.
  • Own the "Four Nines" (99.99%) for services handling tens of thousands of requests per second.
  • You don't just "build UIs"; you architect extensible frontend platforms.
  • shift to deliver a single platform that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
  • You have an established workflow for leveraging LLMs to accelerate personal and team-wide output.
  • 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.

Compensation

  • $175,800.00-219,750.00

Benefits

  • We are among the top 20% being declared "Best" of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

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.
  • We like to say we Rise Together - putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community.
  • Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes.
  • At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it's hard.
  • We are undergoing a transformational and exciting shift to deliver a single platform that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars.
  • We are unifying an ecosystem of automotive brands into a single, high-throughput, service-oriented platform.
  • We're looking for a technical architect and "lead-from-the-front" builder to drive this transformation.
  • We are an AI-first organization.
  • We are undergoing a transformational and exciting

Equal opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Act as a sponsor for Staff and Senior engineers.
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