Engineering Manager, Front End Platforms

Who We Are

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.com 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’ 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.

What You’Ll Do

• You’ll manage a team of talented engineers while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the broader team.  Your team is primarily responsible for maintaining our design system and our microservice template for building isomorphic Remix and React applications. 
• Your team’s mission is to enable engineering teams to build highly-performant, scalable, excellent products through advocating for architectural standards and providing common UI libraries and tooling.
• This is a highly visible role that requires you to facilitate and collaborate on multiple cross-team projects at the same time. You will use your leadership expertise to drive groups with disparate interests to decisions, seeing those through to impact. You will make pragmatic decisions, balancing strategic and tactical needs. You will help senior leadership manage risk and make sure we are making 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
• Have fun as you continuously learn and expand your and your team’s capabilities

What You’Ll Bring

• 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, which can range from junior engineers to senior business leaders to third-party vendors
• 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

Working At Cargurus

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.

We Welcome All

CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid