Cars Commerce

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Cars Commerce

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $154,200 - $192,750 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerKubernetes

About the role

  • Lead full-stack delivery: Direct one or more teams that own several backend services and front-end applications; own the end-to-end delivery of the domain roadmap; set clear objectives, groom several sprints of backlog, and hold the bar on Jira hygiene and velocity transparency.
  • Drive product road-mapping & prioritization: Serve as a strategic partner to Product Managers to translate business goals into measurable milestones and customer outcomes; balance new feature work with technical debt and platform investments.
  • Coach, develop, and scale talent: Provide frequent 1-1s, actionable feedback, and growth plans for senior engineers and leads; mentor emerging managers as the org expands; cultivate a diverse, inclusive culture of psychological safety and continuous learning.
  • Steward production reliability & security: Own SLOs, on-call rotations, incident command, and post-mortem learning; ensure adherence to security and compliance maintenance guidelines and vulnerability-remediation SLAs.
  • Operational excellence through metrics: Use a data-driven approach to continuous improvement, monitoring DORA, change-failure rate, incident MTTR, and CapEx accuracy; initiate improvement plans when trends deviate from targets.
  • Architectural guidance & modernization: Review designs for extensibility, backwards compatibility, and cost efficiency (backend); guide the technical strategy for reusable components, modular architecture, and developer ergonomics (frontend); promote modern practices in CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps across all owned systems.
  • Cross-functional influence: Coordinate integrations with adjacent domains, negotiate timelines and API contracts, and represent Core Services in company-wide program reviews.
  • Hiring & org shaping: Partner with Talent Acquisition to build a diverse pipeline, run structured interviews, and make evidence-based hiring decisions; forecast head-count needs as product scope grows.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineers
  • Proven track record shipping and operating business-critical backend services and front-end web applications at scale
  • Strong background in cloud-native architectures (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), event-driven and API-driven systems
  • Comfortable reviewing designs for scalability, resilience, and cost
  • Skilled at coaching senior/staff engineers, giving direct and constructive feedback, resolving conflict, and fostering an inclusive, high-trust culture aligned with company values
  • Familiar with incident management best practices, observability stacks (DataDog), vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps pipelines
  • Able to tailor technical and non-technical narratives to engineers, product managers, and executives alike; proven record of influencing beyond direct authority
Benefits
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
full-stack developmentbackend servicesfront-end applicationscloud-native architecturesevent-driven systemsAPI-driven systemsscalabilityresilienceDevSecOpsCI/CD
Soft skills
coachingmentoringconflict resolutioninclusive culturepsychological safetycommunicationinfluencefeedbackstrategic partnershipcontinuous learning