Software Engineer (Carcode)
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 is looking for a Software Engineer to help us improve and transform how people buy cars. You will be a part of our messaging platform and products (Carcode) team, and use our multifaceted technology stacks to design, develop and deploy our suite of applications and services. Our products are used by hundreds of our dealer partners to leverage chat and messaging for helping consumers make car buying easier.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and develop services that power our rich user experiences
- Improve, maintain and support our distributed application infrastructure in AWS
- Work closely with product, design and engineering to implement features and solutions to make car buying easy
- Help the team deliver robust code by leveraging our delivery pipelines
- Improve application performance and stability
What You Need:
- Demonstrated ability to write maintainable software
- Comfortable or willing to develop software using Java (version 8 and above)
- Knowledge of other programming languages like Python or Javascript would be a plus
- Knowledge of server side development frameworks like Servlets, Spring or NodeJs
- Familiarity with Cloud based environments and technologies
- Ability to effectively communicate and document information
- Understanding of Databases and Data stores
Why You Would Want This Job:
- You want to make a tangible impact on people’s lives by improving the car buying process
- You appreciate working with talented people in a variety of roles including software engineering, product management, and design
- You aim to keep learning and expanding your knowledge about software development
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Edmunds Perks:
Flexible time off
13 Paid Holidays
Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)
401K Plan with Company Matching at 50%, up to 6% of employee eligible contribution and vesting after 1 year
Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave
HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them
2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes
FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees
Well being sessions and events such as yoga, meditation and walking challenges
On-going career development sessions and an annual learning event
Pet insurance
Sabbatical leave
Education Reimbursement
Plus a coffee bar, frozen yogurt and more!
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!
Edmunds will consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.
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