Cars Commerce

Lead Senior Software Engineer

Cars Commerce

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $135,300 - $169,150 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCypressDockerKubernetesLaravelMySQLPHPSymfony

About the role

  • Own engineering-driven and product-driven projects from idea to done with minimal oversight
  • Enhance existing applications, troubleshoot and optimize current systems
  • Build scalable, secure, and reliable improvements to our platform
  • Mentor junior engineers and define and drive adoption of team processes, procedures, and best practices and system architecture
  • Collaborate with staff and principal engineers to design and develop features that meet SLOs and scale to support business needs
  • Own the health and uptime of business-critical systems; participate in on-call rotations and conduct postmortems
  • Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to define technical requirements and design scalable, maintainable systems
  • Champion and implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and security practices (DevSecOps)
  • Ensure comprehensive documentation of designs, system architectures, and operational procedures

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of experience in software development with a strong focus on designing, building, and operating PHP applications and web frameworks like Symfony or Laravel
  • Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software
  • Strong collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling applications in production
  • Strong understanding of MySQL, caching strategies, and messaging systems
  • Proven experience designing and implementing observability solutions (e.g., DataDog)
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Github Actions), automated testing, and integrating security throughout the development lifecycle
  • Familiarity with end to end testing frameworks such as Cypress or Playwright
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability