Lead Software Engineer – JavaScript
At Edmunds we’re driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60’s, the company has been in the business of trust, innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first Internet site in 1994, we established a leadership position online and have never looked back. Now, as one of the most trusted review sites on the Internet, millions of visitors use our research, shopping and buying tools every month to make an easy and informed decision on their next car. For consumers, we bring peace of mind. For dealers, we make tools to help them solve their problems and sell more cars. How do we do it, you ask? The key ingredients are our enthusiastic employees, progressive company culture and cutting-edge technology. Want to join the team? Read on to find out how!
What You’re Applying For:
Edmunds.com is looking for a Software Engineering Lead for our SEO Engineering team. The person we are looking for lives and breaths front end engineering and is passionate about SEO. Organic search traffic is a critical part of our traffic strategy and we want someone to help us win. This lead will work with a dedicated team of passionate developers and will be responsible for helping the rest of our organization get religion around SEO from a technical perspective.
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with SEO Specialists, other Engineers, Designers, and Content Strategist to iterate on winning strategies to ensure we win in search across all our web properties;
- Work with our Platform Engineering team to ensure our web site platforms are designed with SEO optimization in mind;
- Stay informed and educate peers on industry shifts in SEO best practices.
What You Need:
- Expert level in building, unit testing, documenting and refactoring JavaScript code;
- Experience building search engine optimized web pages using JS, CSS, HTML;
- Comfortable working across our entire product suite and able to quickly switch contexts;
- Expert knowledge of testing strategies, cross-browser compatibility & client side performance optimization;
- Experience with Node.js;
- Experience with React and isomorphic JS experience is a plus
- Passion for ensuring our pages and site are optimized for search.
Working @ Edmunds.com:
Employees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by the Fortune Magazine and Great Places to Work, LA Business Journal (for the last 6 years!), Computerworld, and Built in LA. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology and also for Diversity and Asian Americans. In fact, our CEO, Avi Steinlauf, was rated as one of Glassdoor's Highest Rated CEOs! If you’re interested in learning more and joining our mission, we’d love to hear from you!
A Few Of The Perks:
· Results Only Work Environment (ROWE): we celebrate results, not hours worked; you’re empowered to manage your schedule in order to integrate work and life so that neither gets neglected
· Flexible Time Away From Work: no more counting your vacation days! You can take what you need – as long as your work gets done.
· Trip Ca$h: paid paid vacation! Edmunds will give you $500 towards your next vacation.
· Competitive Pay & Fantastic Benefits: 14 paid company holidays (how many of your friends get to celebrate Earth Day as a paid day off?), great coverage, and subsidized gym memberships. We could tell you all of our benefits but then we’d have to hire you!