Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/cars/jobs/principal-software-engineer-marketplace-united-states-remote Job Description: Cars Commerce Website LinkedIn All Job Openings Cars Commerce is a comprehensive online platform that facilitates the buying, selling, and research of vehicles. It provides a wide range of listings for new and used cars, along with tools and resources for customers to compare different makes and models, read reviews, and obtain financing options. With a focus on enhancing the car shopping experience, Cars Commerce connects sellers with local dealers and offers estimates for vehicle sales, ensuring a streamlined process for prospective buyers and sellers alike. Mobile Marketing • Content Marketing • Data and Analytics 1001 - 5000 employees 🛍️ eCommerce 🏪 Marketplace Principal Software Engineer - Marketplace 3 days ago 🌽 Illinois – Remote 💵 $175.8k - $219.8k / year ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead 🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer Android GraphQL iOS Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 Description • Our mission on the Marketplace Engineering team is to build a trusted marketplace that facilitates a simple, fun, and fast experience for car buyers and sellers. • By joining our team you will be in the driver’s seat as we build novel Full Stack solutions that support frictionless experiences for our users throughout the automotive ecosystem, and across the Cars.com website (and MobileApp experiences) • Our Marketplace Engineering Team (cars.com) is on a transformative journey, building innovative services that will redefine the way we deliver value. • As a Principal Software Engineer you will lead the cars.com domain at Cars Commerce. • An exceptional opportunity to influence the future of our platforms and drive meaningful change at scale to make an impact on the industry • This is an exciting role because as a Principal Engineer with the Marketplace ( Cars.com ) team, you will help tens of millions of people like you and me find their perfect car match each year, with our 4.7 star rated Android and 4.8 star rated iOS apps being a critical part of our strategy. • We’re looking for a Principal Engineer with 10+ years of aggregate software engineering experience to architect and evangelize how we bridge our backend services to power our mobile apps via GraphQL. • This opportunity enables you to… Drive technical excellence by championing best practices in software design, operational maturity, and engineering quality across the organization • Have a high degree of agency, autonomy, and ambiguity: You’ll work with our platform and feature teams as well as our iOS and Android mobile engineering team to determine technical needs and constraints • Act as a trusted partner and advisor to the Marketplace teams —aligning technical solutions with business goals, guiding complex decisions, and balancing near-term delivery with long-term scalability • Be a leader and a mentor – enabling teams around you to deliver effectively and efficiently. • Outside of engineering, you’ll be working with cross-functional teams such as product, marketing, analytics, and data to understand our short-term and long-term business objectives and need to reconcile competing demands, constraints, and requirements across all of these stakeholders in order to devise technical solutions. • Lead by example through hands-on contributions to high-impact, cross-functional projects, embedding with engineering teams to guide architecture, design, and implementation decisions • Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and trust by building strong relationships across teams, encouraging open communication, and influencing through empathy and credibility • Mentor and support engineers across all levels, helping them grow in technical depth, architectural thinking, and leadership skills • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, identifying opportunities to modernize our tech stack and improve development velocity • Socialize and implement this solution, taking particular care to ensure we have tight feedback loops so we can practice continuous improvement and ensuring the entire organization is ascribing to the best practices you put forth. • Leader and a force multiplier. Not only will you bridge systems technically, you’ll be bridging the gap between organizations to ensure that we can all arrive at the best solution we can given the information we have available. 🎯 Requirements • 10+ years of aggregate software engineering experience • 5+ years of experience architecting high-traffic, large-scale distributed software systems and establishing best practices • Knowledge of how to craft a vision for a technical platform, weighing both business and technical goals and concerns, and effectively selling that vision to decision makers as well as the individuals chartered to execute upon that vision • The ability to create training programs to onboard engineers onto new technologies, systems, and architectures, and up-level those already privy • Technical knowledge from working with web and mobile apps, either backend systems that support the apps or the apps themselves • Experience being a technical leader in a 100% remote environment, influencing stakeholders across design, engineering, and technology, both within your own organization and across an enterprise • Bonus : AI Agent development experience and/or knowledge 🏖️ Benefits • Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans • New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up • Generous PTO • Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset • Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day • Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages