Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience Architecture

Role Overview

The Developer Experience Architecture team at Car Gurus builds the platforms, tooling, and standards that make hundreds of engineers faster, safer, and more productive. You will work on our highest‑leverage initiatives: standardizing AI agentic development (Claude Code, our internal plugin marketplace, and MCP integrations), evolving our authentication and identity platform (Keycloak, OAuth2/OIDC), and improving the paved paths for service and job creation on AWS.

These are complex, cross‑cutting problems with global impact. You will own your projects and partner with engineers and product managers across the org. And no, you do not need to know about cars to work here.

• Design and ship developer tooling, core frameworks, and reusable templates that raise engineering productivity and quality
• Advance our agentic development ecosystem:
  Claude Code configuration and governance, plugins and skills, and MCP servers
• Strengthen the Auth service and agent identity model using Keycloak, OAuth2, and OIDC
• Build and operate services with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes
• Define standards, guardrails, and best practices, then drive adoption across product teams
• Continuously assess, root cause, and improve system reliability and performance

• Five or more years of hands‑on, fullstack software design and development, including at least two years of Java.
• Experience with client and server side JavaScript, including React, Node, and Remix, is a plus.
• Experience building performant, large‑scale web applications and cloud‑native systems on AWS or similar cloud providers.
• Working knowledge of authentication and identity standards (OAuth2/OIDC), or a strong appetite to learn them.
• Hands‑on experience applying modern AI coding tools (assistants, agents, MCP) to real engineering work.
• Comfort writing tests, using observability tools, and owning projects end to end.
• Curious, collaborative, and eager to learn.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

$140,000—$176,000 USD

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.

Car Gurus 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 Car Gurus.