Remote Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Cars Commerce as a Principal Experience Engineer and lead the architecture and evangelization of Dealer Inspire's product development, working with cross-functional teams to drive technical solutions and ensure best practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive, own and create software architecture patterns and best practices that can be used across the enterprise
• Work with Principal Engineers and Engineering Management to own and drive a roadmap for Engineering and Architecture initiatives
• Actively coach department teams to consider maintainability and extensibility in their approach to technical design
• Ensures department teams implement the tooling and techniques required to ship code consistently, securely, and quickly
• Support the delivery of both product and highly technical projects from start to finish across multiple quarters with milestones and clear success criteria, ensuring alignment with business and technical goals
• Conduct thorough Architecture and Code Reviews and coach Engineers across the department on what good looks like through positive reinforcement and demonstration
• Ensure teams across the enterprise are adhering to defined architecture and software development patterns and best practices
• Understand ambiguous business problems related to your work as well as the work of your department; resolve them
• Produce excellent written products in technical designs, assessments, code reviews/PRs, technical strategy, project status and more
• Build trust and rapport with Engineering and Product Management across the company to be viewed as subject matter expert
• Distil highly-technical and/or abstract information for consumption by non-technical stakeholders and executives
• Actively delivers situational & task-based feedback as well as feedback on overall performance to other teammates, their direct manager, senior management & individual contributors on outside teams, and cross functional stakeholders
• Considers factors outside their immediate team's purview in how to automate, de-risk, and optimize their department’s delivery
• The ability to create training programs to onboard engineers onto new technologies, systems, and architectures, and up-level those already privy
• Ensures knowledge and lessons learned obtained by themselves as well as other teammates are shared across their department team as well as their department's cross functional stakeholders
• Seeks out opportunities to mentor other individuals, both formally and informally, across their department, creates and manages projects in support of mentorship activities, sets department best practices around how to effectively mentor individuals