Manager, Software Development Engineering

CarGurus•Boston, MA

23h•$186,000 - $233,000•Hybrid

About The Position

CarGurus is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Autolist team within its Consumer Engineering organization. Autolist is a distinct marketplace brand and subsidiary of CarGurus, and its team builds consumer experiences that help millions of shoppers research, discover, evaluate, and purchase vehicles. The manager will lead engineers responsible for key parts of the Autolist consumer experience, including mobile apps and the platform. This role combines technical judgment, product thinking, and people leadership. The manager will shape technical direction, develop engineers, and partner with Product, UX, Analytics, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality consumer software. They will guide the team's approach to architecture, reliability, scalability, and developer effectiveness, while creating clarity and focus to move complex initiatives from concept to measurable outcomes. CarGurus is evolving its engineering practices toward AI-enabled and increasingly agentic ways of working. The manager will model and guide thoughtful, responsible adoption of AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, and other AI-driven engineering tools. Mobile-app experience is a strong plus, but experience with both iOS and Android is not required. The position offers an annual base salary range of $186,000–$233,000 USD. The role may also qualify for discretionary bonuses or incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). CarGurus describes its work model as flexible hybrid and offers benefits, equity, career development programs, corporate giving programs, employee resource groups, time off policies, daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, and commuting cost coverage.

Requirements

7+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including 3+ years as an engineering manager, technical lead, or in an equivalent engineering leadership role.
Experience leading and developing engineers who build and operate customer-facing software.
A generalist engineering background with sufficient technical depth to engage in architecture, system design, APIs, distributed systems, data, testing, observability, and technical trade-offs.
Experience delivering consumer-facing products at scale, with a strong customer focus and a record of shipping high-quality, user-centered experiences.
Experience with mobile applications or close partnership with mobile engineering teams.
Strong product judgment, quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills, and comfort using analytics, experimentation, and customer insights to make decisions and measure impact.
Genuine enthusiasm for AI-enabled and agentic development, with curiosity and leadership to help engineers adopt new tools and ways of working.
An ownership mindset and strong project and execution management skills; ability to drive product and engineering development from concept to launch, create clarity, prioritize effectively, and make progress in ambiguous environments.
Demonstrated ability to coach engineers and help them grow technically and professionally.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build trust across engineering, product, design, analytics, and partner teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Curiosity, empathy, sound judgment, and commitment to building inclusive teams and continuously improving.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with iOS and/or Android platform design principles; experience with both platforms is not required.
Experience leading teams that build customer-centric mobile products.
Ability to reason about consumer app experiences and platform choices as the product evolves, including potential platform-agnostic approaches.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, supporting their technical development, career growth, performance, and a collaborative, high-performing culture.
Set the team’s technical direction, balancing near-term delivery with investments in architecture, reliability, scalability, and developer effectiveness.
Lead cross-functional collaboration across engineering, Product, UX, and Analytics, building shared vision and consensus on strategy, priorities, and execution from ideation through launch.
Help the team build intuitive, high-quality, customer-centric mobile and web products that improve the Autolist consumer shopping experience.
Drive disciplined execution by clarifying goals, decomposing complex initiatives, managing scope and dependencies, and promoting incremental delivery and learning.
Champion AI-enabled ways of working, including AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, and AI-driven engineering tools; model these practices and support their thoughtful, responsible adoption.
Collaborate across Consumer, Dealer, and Platform Engineering to align on dependencies, integration requirements, and shared technical investments.
Work with Product Analytics to define and analyze success metrics, using data, customer feedback, A/B tests, and operational signals to guide decisions.
Partner with Product, UX, and Analytics to incorporate usability research, customer insights, and market analysis into technical requirements and product decisions.
Advocate for engineering excellence through code quality, observability, reliability, security, testing, and continuous improvement in processes and tooling.
Contribute directly when it will have the greatest impact, such as shaping technical designs, scoping experiments, resolving cross-team dependencies, or unblocking delivery.

Benefits

Equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow.
Career development programs.
Corporate giving programs.
Employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities.
Flexible hybrid model.
Robust time off policies.
Daily free lunch.
New car discount.
Meditation and fitness apps.
Commuting cost coverage.
The role may qualify for discretionary bonuses or incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Comprehensive Total Rewards Package.