About Shift:

We believe car buying should be fun, fair, and accessible to everyone. We’ve set out to transform an industry, using technology to bring transparency and convenience to the car buying process. And we aren’t stopping there. We seek to bring that same openness and simplicity to car ownership too, with payments, maintenance, and insurance in one easy app. At Shift, we’re building the tools that empower people to buy, own, and sell the cars that make life go. 

About the role: 

Engineers at Shift build things that matter and have a material impact to the company’s bottom line and the customer’s experience. In this role, you will drive exciting, meaningful projects, and help define our technical and product strategy. We move fast, have fun, and help each other out. 

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to help us build the world's best e-commerce and operations platform to drive car sales. As a senior leader, you are core to our business and will be in direct contact with stakeholders, and build a strong understanding of the business and customers. As an experienced manager you love helping engineers develop their skills, advance in their careers and grow as leaders. You lead by example and foster a culture of technical excellence, humility and lifelong learning. This is an opportunity to join a fantastic team at a hi-tech fast-paced Silicon Valley company which is transforming an entire industry. You will report to the SVP of Engineering. We’d love to talk to you about what great things you’ll do here. 

What you'll do:

• Lead multiple full-stack Engineering teams, partnering with Product Management, Data Science and TechOps.
• Work with stakeholders in marketing, operations, sales and others to understand business initiatives and determine optimal solutions to foster efficiency and growth.
• Participate in build v buy decisions.
• Participate in technical design, project planning and lead development of critical projects.
• Foster a culture of diversity and inclusion by looking for, inspiring and hiring strong candidates from varied backgrounds and cultures.
• Build and maintain a strong relationship with your team, supporting them with candid feedback, promotions and mentorship.
• Show your technical prowess by improving the tech stack and tooling. 
• Increase efficiency and developer satisfaction by iterating on processes, gathering ideas and driving change. 

What we ask for:.

• Experience working in e-commerce on the shoppers experience, delivering production-ready software.
• 10+ years building technically complex software for the web.
• 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Strong experience with functional and object oriented programming in various languages such as Ruby, Python, C/C++, Java, PHP. Go experience will set you apart.
• Experience with development of SPAs and server-side rendered web-apps. You should know when to use which approach. Experience with React and jQuery is a must. Typescript experience will set you apart.
• Strong experience with Postgres.
• Experience with deploying to AWS, GCP and using CDNs.
• Experience with monitoring and instrumentation tech and vendors such as Segment, New Relic, Datadog, Pingdom, and PagerDuty.
• BS or MS in Computer Science.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with CRMs such as Salesforce Sales Cloud.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or Revel.
• Experience working at a startup.

On diversity

Our company depends on balance and equality — between buyers and sellers, among employees, and in our relationships with customers.

Our mission to evolve car ownership and transform an industry is a challenging one. It can only be achieved by a team of diverse problem-solvers — engineers, designers, business people — from the same broad demographics as our customers.

Why join now?

We’ve built a small but highly talented team backed by >$275 million in funding from investors like DFJ, Goldman Sachs, BMW, and Nissan. In October 2018 we announced a deep partnership and a $140m round led by the third largest auto retailer in the US, Lithia Motors. With strong product-market fit and a great business in California, the next two years will be focused on scaling the business nationally.

Shift is the Bay Area’s #1 seller of used cars with $150 million in cars sold per year. We’re serving most of California and are gearing up to scale to new markets. With a solid business model and no clear winner in our space yet, this is a hugely exciting time to join the team.

Shift is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.