Manager, Software Development Engineering

Cargurus

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  As the Manager of the SEO & Content Engineering team at CarGurus, you'll lead an engineering team responsible for one of our most important growth channels: organic discovery. You will partner closely with Marketing, Product, and Engineering leaders to shape the technical strategy behind how millions of shoppers discover CarGurus through search. From evolving our site architecture and content platforms to building new experiences that answer shoppers' questions, your team's work will directly influence traffic growth, shopper engagement, and business outcomes. Search itself is changing rapidly. Traditional SEO remains critical, but discovery is increasingly happening through AI powered search and recommendation experiences. This team sits at the intersection of engineering, content, and growth, helping ensure CarGurus remains visible, trusted, and easy to discover wherever shoppers begin their journey.You don't need to be an SEO expert on day one. We value strong engineering leadership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to build high performing teams that solve meaningful customer and business problems. What you'll do * Lead and mentor a team of engineers through coaching, technical direction, and professional development. * Build and evolve systems and experiences used by millions of shoppers throughout their car buying journey. * Partner with Product and Marketing stakeholders to establish priorities and align SEO strategies with broader business goals. * Drive execution against the team's roadmap, balancing short term impact with long term investments in platform capabilities and technical foundations. * Use data and experimentation to validate hypotheses, measure impact, and continuously improve organic traffic quality and shopper engagement. * Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, design, analytics, engineering, and content teams to implement features to enhance search engine visibility and user experience. * Own SEO problems end-to-end, managing diverse systems and technologies to optimize efficiency and user experience. * Help shape CarGurus' strategy for the future of search, ensuring our content and experiences remain discoverable across both traditional search engines and emerging AI powered experiences. Who you are * 6+ years of hands-on software design and development experience * 2+ years of experience managing software development teams * You have experience leading engineering teams and creating environments where people can do their best work. * You are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast moving environments and making thoughtful tradeoffs. * You have a strong technical foundation and can effectively partner with engineers on architecture, design, and delivery decisions. * You bring an analytical mindset and can translate data and insights into clear priorities and action. * You excel at building relationships and influencing across functions and organizational boundaries. * You have experience delivering customer facing web experiences at scale. * You understand the fundamentals of SEO and are excited to learn how search and AI driven discovery are evolving. * You have JavaScript and React experience. * Experience with Remix is a strong plus. * Experience with Java based services is a strong plus. The displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position. On-Target Earnings (OTE) is inclusive of base salary and on-target commission earnings, which applies exclusively to sales roles. Individual pay within this range is determined by work location and other factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This annual base salary forms part of a comprehensive Total Rewards Package. In addition to benefits, this role may qualify for discretionary bonuses/incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Position Pay Range $186,000—$233,000 USD 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. CarGurus may require in-person interviews as part of our hiring process, particularly for positions based in our Boston and Dublin offices. Candidates selected for an in-person interview will be notified in advance. Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate. 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

Cargurus

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 Car shopping is complicated. At CarGurus, we use data and technology to make it simple, giving people the tools they need to confidently find, buy, finance, or sell a car. The best part? Our work makes a real impact. We’re the most-visited car-shopping site in the US and we are growing fast in our international markets. Ready to come along for the ride?  The Data Engineering team at CarGurus is looking for a Manager of Data Platform & Operations Engineering to enable our data platform efforts across the company. You will be responsible for leading the reliability, scalability, and day-to-day operations of our data platform, ensuring trusted and timely data for stakeholders in Product Management, Marketing, Finance, and Engineering. You will own the platform roadmap across ingestion, orchestration, storage, and observability; set and uphold SLAs, cost, security, and quality controls; and establish operational best practices and runbooks. You will partner closely with our internal customers to prioritize capabilities, resolve incidents, and continuously improve developer experience, while contributing to our enterprise data strategy and governance as we scale our core business.   What you'll do * Grow and lead a team of data engineers who will support a diverse set of stakeholders across our business and engineering orgs  * Provide technical leadership to your team to build maintainable data architectures  * Design and oversee scalable, cloud-native data architecture supporting batch and real-time pipelines  * Develop a vision for CarGurus’ data platform, identifying gaps in our people and technology strategies and setting high standards for data quality  * Ensure platform scalability, performance, security and cost optimization  * Collaborate with Product Management to prioritize initiatives, manage the execution of projects, and implement agile software development practices as needed * Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement   What you'll bring * BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience * 5+ years of experience in product/business analytics, data engineering, analytics engineering, or related field  * 2+ years of hands-on people management experience  * Experience writing code using best practices in a language such as Python, Java, Go, etc. * Experience working with a cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery) and a modern business intelligence platform (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Domo)  * Expert level SQL proficiency and deep familiarity with dimensional modeling best practices * Experience distilling requirements and enabling both technical and non-technical stakeholders to reach their end goals * You’ve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects, and you’re excited to dive in and learn fast. You’re hungry to responsibly explore new AI tools and workflows, finding ways to make your work smarter and more efficient.   The displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position. On-Target Earnings (OTE) is inclusive of base salary and on-target commission earnings, which applies exclusively to sales roles. Individual pay within this range is determined by work location and other factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This annual base salary forms part of a comprehensive Total Rewards Package. In addition to benefits, this role may qualify for discretionary bonuses/incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Position Pay Range $160,000—$201,000 USD 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. CarGurus may require in-person interviews as part of our hiring process, particularly for positions based in our Boston and Dublin offices. Candidates selected for an in-person interview will be notified in advance. Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate. 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

Cargurus

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 The Manager, Data Science will lead an Inventory & Dealer Data Science team focused on developing, deploying, and optimizing machine learning models that power CarGurus’ products and business insights. Sitting within the broader Data Science organization, this team is responsible for modeling automotive marketplace dynamics and dealer behavior. The team owns Machine Learning solutions end-to-end across the ML lifecycle, from R&D to production. This leader is accountable for the team’s strategic direction and impactful delivery, while building a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and collaboration. The Manager partners with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure team efforts advance CarGurus’ goals in intelligence-powered products. What you'll do * Oversee the development, training, and evaluation of machine learning models covering Inventory and Dealer intelligence. Leverage modeling techniques including recommendations, demand forecasting, churn risk prediction, and valuation algorithms. * Facilitate experimentation, A/B testing, and measurement of production models, ensuring robust evaluation of business impact * Build and develop a high-performing team - providing regular coaching, feedback, and performance assessments; ensure equitable access to growth opportunities. * Drive innovation, continuous improvement, and adoption of best-in-class ML and AI practices. Champion best practices across the organization. * Participate in roadmap planning, aligning the team’s work with broader business priorities and long-term strategy. Flag resource constraints and escalate tradeoff decisions when needed. * Act as a visible, accessible leader - communicating objectives, updates, risks, and wins to all stakeholders. * Partner with peers in the Machine Learning Platform, Product and Data teams, and other stakeholders to facilitate effective cross-team working relationships and represent data science in cross-functional forums.   What you'll bring * 5+ years of experience in a data science or machine learning engineering role * 2+ years of people leadership experience * Deep expertise in machine learning models and their application to classification, regression, ranking, and recommendation problems. Familiarity with standard evaluation metrics and statistical best practices. * Experience deploying and owning models in production and a working understanding of MLOps practices. * Strong working knowledge of Python development best practices and the Python ML ecosystem (e.g., scikit-learn, PyTorch, XGBoost, numpy, pandas). * Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, including deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting ML models. * Effective communication and facilitation abilities with both technical and non-technical stakeholders (including data scientists, product management, senior leadership, and engineers). * Experience contributing to the technical direction for a team and a strategic mindset for prioritizing projects and aligning them with business goals. * Knowledge of standard software development methodologies and a history of driving continuous improvement. * Experience in a collaborative, cross-functional environment, with the ability to build effective working relationships and foster an inclusive team culture.   The displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position. On-Target Earnings (OTE) is inclusive of base salary and on-target commission earnings, which applies exclusively to sales roles. Individual pay within this range is determined by work location and other factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This annual base salary forms part of a comprehensive Total Rewards Package. In addition to benefits, this role may qualify for discretionary bonuses/incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Position Pay Range $185,000—$231,000 USD 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. CarGurus may require in-person interviews as part of our hiring process, particularly for positions based in our Boston and Dublin offices. Candidates selected for an in-person interview will be notified in advance. Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate. 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