Remote Senior Software Engineer I

Summary

Join Cars Commerce as a senior software engineer and contribute to delivering sophisticated user experiences through Elixir application development.

Requirements

• 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 programing 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

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 Commerce 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

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• 401(k) with Company Match + Immediate Vesting
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 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