Lead Sr. Software Engineer

Overview

Cars Commerce is a leading automotive technology company that simplifies buying and selling cars through a single data‑driven platform. This remote Lead Software Engineer role focuses on building and scaling the core leads platform.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will own critical components of the leads platform, designing API services that capture, route, and deliver leads to dealerships in real time. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to translate business goals into reliable, incremental outcomes and drive best‑in‑class practices for scalability, observability, security, and reliability.

• Design, develop, and maintain high‑performance, API‑based backend services for leads capture, routing, and delivery.
• Ensure every lead is processed and delivered to the appropriate dealership with zero errors.
• Lead architecture decisions, define technical roadmaps, and balance short‑term delivery with long‑term scalability.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with product managers, engineers, and operations to align system design with business needs.
• Champion Dev Sec Ops  practices by implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and security scanning.
• Drive observability, monitoring, and incident response, including on‑call duties and post‑mortem analysis.
• Document API contracts, system architecture, and operational procedures for internal and external users.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience building large‑scale, highly available backend systems.
• Proven track record delivering software in Agile environments.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, REST, Graph
  
  QL, and gRPC.
• Strong understanding of relational and No
  
  SQL databases, caching, and messaging systems.
• Experience designing observability solutions (e.g., Data Dog) and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid grasp of security principles, including data encryption and secure API design.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to participate in on‑call rotation and incident post‑mortems.
• Bonus:
  Experience with Elixir/Phoenix.

Salary Range: $ – $ (base). In addition to base salary, eligible for bonus and equity programs. Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, home‑office stipend, generous PTO, paid holidays, volunteer days, and a learning program.

Remote only – 100% remote. Based in the United States; no visa sponsorship.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.