Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Be essential at Cars Commerce

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. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.  

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. 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. 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. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. 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.

(This is an exciting remote job opportunity that may require an onsite interview)

Cars.com helps tens of millions of people like you and me find their perfect car match each year. We are the #1 automotive marketplace brand, with our audience spanning our desktop & mobile responsive website, our 4.7 star rated Android app, and our 4.8 star rated iOS app.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with 5+ years of experience leading our front-end client and back-end services teams as their direct manager to join our growing organization. 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.

This means owning project management and execution as a whole, 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. You’ll do this across multiple product feature teams, and deliver simultaneously across desktop and mobile responsive web, iOS, and Android - including driving the development of the back-end services that back all three of our front-end clients.

To your team, you’ll be their fearless leader and mentor, making sure that they’re supported and ready to tackle interesting product-driven challenges and technical problems. You’ll help drive sprint ceremonies, manage projects, guide technical decisions, and be instrumental in empowering your team to reach their personal career goals. Hiring and retaining top talent is a key aspect of this role. You’ll help determine who to hire to ensure your team’s success, as well as how to reward top performers and coach individuals to do their best work. 

Your sphere of influence doesn’t end there. Passionate and opinionated about things like new and emerging technologies, organizational theory, process, and execution? You’ll be able to help define the what and the how around engineering for our organization.

In short, you’ll be a leader and a force multiplier, and with that, you’ll shape how millions of people shop for their next car on web, iOS, and Android.
 

Our stack: 

• JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, GraphQL, Elixir, CircleCI, GitHub

You bring: 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience

• 5+ years of experience leading front-end client and back-end services teams as their direct manager

• Experience as a people manager in a 100% remote environment, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, coaching, and growing engineering talent

• Meticulous project management skills, ensuring projects are delivered on time and with a high degree of quality

• Substantial experience with experimentation, both experiment design and implementing those designs through experimentation tools and in engineering systems

• A track record of collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders outside of engineering and managing an entire team of remote engineers to deliver projects on time

• Excitement when given broad agency and responsibility to lead a team to deliver business value across our all of our front-end channels simultaneously

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Generous PTO
• Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages!

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. California Applicants: Click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Applicants. For current employees, please click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Employees.