At TrueCar, we pride ourselves on the amazing team we’ve built. The driver behind all our growth, our bold and disruptive brand, and the game changing technology we bring to market is the people that make TrueCar great. You will have a rare opportunity to revolutionize one of the biggest industries in the world. We’re not just another website or app, we’re saving real people billions of dollars and reinventing the way people purchase cars.  TrueCar consumers have purchased over 1.7 million cars by partnering with over 10,000 of the most reputable, customer-focused automotive dealers. We power over 400 websites for their auto purchasing programs including truecar.com, USAA, American Express, Consumer Reports and AAA.  We have a great product you can stand behind.

We are growing and looking for Senior Python Developers who will be responsible for building the technology used to power our production websites, APIs, widgets, and internal tools. Ideal candidates will have more than seven years of professional software development experience building database-driven, web-based systems in a Linux environment.  You will be utilizing the latest web technologies to solve challenging problems, create innovative web applications from the ground up and understand exactly what it takes to create an outrageously good Web experience for our customers. You’ll be all about finding ways to increase customer conversion and satisfaction. 

Responsibilities:

• Designing and writing production-ready code and unit tests meeting both technical and business requirements
• Optimizing and enhancing systems with high-volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements
• Contributing architecture input to new systems as well as rewriting legacy systems
• Contributing domain-specific expertise by reviewing code, reviewing design docs, giving technical talks, and mentoring junior members of the team
• Helping support the operation of our production services

Qualifications:

• 5 + years of professional software development experience producing web-based systems in a Linux environment
• A passion for software development, excited to teach and learn from others on a small team
• Solid understanding and practical experience using object-oriented design principles and patterns
• Extensive development experience in Python, Ruby or Perl
• Experience using an RDBMS such as MySQL and comfortable enough with SQL to do more than simple selects from tables
• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent
• MVC web framework (Django, RoR, Catalyst)
• Experience in distributed/cloud computing is a plus (Hadoop, Cassandra, EC2, etc.)
• Consumer Internet product experience preferred
• C/C++ or Objective-C a plus