Lead Software Engineer

Description

• Define and drive reusable, reliable, and scalable front-end architectures across the Cars Commerce platform experiences.

• Lead design and development of shared UI components and design systems, with attention to accessibility, theming, maintainability, and developer ergonomics.

• Optimize user-focused performance across browsers and devices.

• Work closely with engineering, design, and product partners across teams to align on front-end strategies and standards, elevate UI consistency, and reduce duplication.

• Serve as a front-end mentor, coaching other engineers and shaping team best practices.

• Treat components and libraries as products. Develop excellent documentation, innovative usage patterns, and internal developer experience.

• Collaborate with backend developers to integrate UIs with APIs. While your focus is front-end, you’re comfortable navigating the full stack.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 8+ years of experience in front-end engineering, including a deep knowledge of JavaScript (and TypeScript)

• Deep understanding of browser fundamentals: HTML, CSS (Flexbox, Grid), DOM, event lifecycle, rendering, and performance tuning.

• Strong experience using browser dev tools across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. for layout debugging, JS tracing, and performance profiling.

• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining component-based design systems with support for theming, responsive behavior, and accessibility.

• Passion for user experience, developer ergonomics, and performance measurement (including Core Web Vitals).

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence others, and align around technical direction.

• Solid understanding of working with back-end technologies, architectural patterns, RESTful APIs, and authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth, JWT, etc.).

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution, and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability

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

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