Software Development Engineer II, Algorithmic Traffic Acquisition

Cargurus • Boston, MA

4d • $128,000 - $160,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we're the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we've been profitable for over 15 years. What we do The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride! Role overview CarGurus Algorithmic Traffic Acquisition team runs SEM advertising. We model customer journeys and engagement to optimize marketing spend programmatically. We're central to CarGurus' growth strategy, both in the US and abroad. As a member of the ATA team, you will be responsible for ad content generation, multisession attribution and our predictive value estimation.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of hands-on software development experience, building modern software applications in a professional setting
• Strong ability to write high quality code and tests
• Familiarity with Kotlin (preferred), Java or C#
• Kledge of SQL, especially MySQL, Sflake and Postgres and tuning database performance
• Goodmunicatorfortable working closely with marketing team

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Terraform or AWS is a plus

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a high-performing team responsible for managing millions of dollars of spend that brings over 40 million visitors a month to CarGurus and Autolist.
• You will work closely with the marketing team and other engineers to improve our ad reach and efficiency.
• Write well-tested and maintainable code to build and manage a highly performant system.
• Collect and analyze data to build efficient models to improve efficiency of our marketing efforts.

Benefits

• We reward our Gurus' curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits andpensation, 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) andmunities, 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,muting 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
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees