Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

CarGurus • Boston, MA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Developer Experience (DevX) Architecture team at CarGurus is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on accelerating developer productivity and delivering architectural improvements for CarGurus Engineering. The results of your work will impact hundreds of engineers across dozens of product teams on a daily basis.
You and your team will take on complex, cross-cutting projects: defining new templates and processes, re-architecting core components, integrating new libraries and frameworks, improving backend performance, and building AI-powered developer tools that give CarGurus engineers a faster and better experience. To succeed in this role, you’ll partner closely with engineers and leaders across many teams, learn and adapt quickly, and translate ambiguous problems into clear, high-impact initiatives. You will own your projects end-to-end, lead a team of talented engineers, and collaborate with fellow engineering managers and product partners to solve interesting problems with broad scope.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software design and development experience building and operating production systems.
• 3+ years in an Engineering Manager or equivalent technical leadership role, leading teams that ship software in production.
• Experience building and operating large-scale, performant web applications, and familiarity with modern technologies and patterns that enable them (distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, observability, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with modern strongly typed backend languages (Java, C#, etc) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Hands-on experience with modern AI tools (e.g., code assistants, test generation, or internal agents) and a perspective on how to responsibly apply them to improve developer experience.
• Strong project management and collaboration skills, including experience working across multiple teams and stakeholders in an iterative, agile environment.
• A people-focused technical leader with high emotional intelligence, who can motivate, coach, and develop engineers at different levels.
• A clear, adaptable communicator who can tailor your message for audiences ranging from junior engineers to senior business leaders and third-party vendors.
• A curious, growth-oriented mindset—you enjoy learning new domains, experimenting with new tools, and continually expanding your capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing DevX engineering team, providing coaching, feedback, and clear expectations.
• Set and communicate architectural direction for developer experience, in partnership with Staff/Principal engineers and other platform teams.
• Own a roadmap of technical investments: propose ideas, shape scope, provide estimates, measure, and sequence work to maximize impact on engineering effectiveness.
• Partner across the organization with engineers, managers, and product to deeply understand their pain points and design pragmatic solutions that scale.
• Drive predictable delivery by breaking down ambiguous problems into small, testable increments and releasing value iteratively.
• Lead the full software development lifecycle for your team’s services and tools: design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, with a strong emphasis on clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
• Identify high leverage/ROI opportunities for AI-assisted development (code assistants, test generation, internal agents), partner with security and compliance to define guardrails, and integrate these capabilities into our SDLC
• Use technologies like Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development tools to improve our core architecture and platforms.
• Advance and champion engineering best practices (reliability, observability, performance, and security) and help teams adopt them through patterns, templates, and guidance.
• Strategically invest in critical platform areas, such as authentication and other shared services, to reduce risk and unlock faster delivery for product teams.

Benefits

• We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us.
• Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways.
• A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being.
• Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees