Engineering Manager, Front End Platforms

CarGurus • Boston, MA

142d

About The Position

CarGurus’ Front End Platforms team is hiring an Engineering Manager. The Front End Platform team plays a key role for CarGurus to operate at scale and improve developer efficiency. We are constantly modernizing our technology platform and are looking to define key architectural capabilities, and guide development teams on their successful implementation. The team’s mission is to enable teams to build performant and scalable UIs and lead best practices for Front End Engineering.

Requirements

• Expertise with JavaScript and/or TypeScript, NodeJS Frameworks and libraries, and React.
• Direct experience with Remix or Next is a huge advantage.
• Highly proficient with HTML and CSS.
• Excellent communicator who can tailor messaging based on audience.
• People-focused technical leader with 2+ years of experience.
• 5+ years of product software development experience at scale.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Strong project management skills, experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent collaborator with proven experience working in a cross-functional team including Product, Design, Analytics, Marketing.
• Detail oriented leader who makes data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of talented engineers while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the broader team.
• Maintain our design system and our microservice template for building isomorphic Remix and React applications.
• Enable engineering teams to build highly-performant, scalable, excellent products through advocating for architectural standards and providing common UI libraries and tooling.
• Facilitate and collaborate on multiple cross-team projects simultaneously.
• Drive groups with disparate interests to decisions and see those through to impact.
• Make pragmatic decisions, balancing strategic and tactical needs.
• Help senior leadership manage risk and make the right trade-off decisions.
• Coach your team to accurately estimate and prioritize units of work and drive the incremental release of moderate to large sized projects.
• Partner with your product manager to define the team’s roadmap.
• Contribute to high level architectural discussions and decisions across multiple areas and teams.
• Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving software.
• Advocate for new technology and new methodologies.
• Continuously learn and expand your and your team’s capabilities.

Benefits

• Best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees.
• Career development and corporate giving programs.
• Employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities.
• Flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies.
• Daily free lunch.
• New car discount.
• Meditation and fitness apps.
• Commuting cost coverage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees