At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, , our industry-leading digital experience, , our trade and appraisal technology, , or our new , Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.
No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be , encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is and , fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, , even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.
But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report . We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.
Data is the driver for our future at Cars. We’re searching for a collaborative, analytical, and innovative engineer to build scalable and highly performant platforms, systems and tools to enable innovations with data. If you are passionate about building large scale systems and data driven products, we want to hear from you.
- Build data pipelines and deriving insights out of the data using advanced analytic techniques, streaming and machine learning at scale
- Work within a dynamic, forward thinking team environment where you will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical, highly visible Big Data applications
- Build, deploy and support data pipelines into production.
- Work in close partnership with other Engineering teams, including Data Science, & cross-functional teams, such as Product Management & Product Design
- Opportunity to mentor others on the team and share your knowledge across the Cars.com organization
- Experience with one or more query language (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, HiveQL, SparkSQL)
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java.
- Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code in Python.
- Solid understanding of various file formats and compression techniques.
- Experience with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow or similar frameworks.
- Experience with source code management systems such as Github and developing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins for data.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to design, develop and debug at a cross-project level.
- Data Engineering | 3+ years of designing & developing complex, real-time applications at enterprise scale; specifically Python and/or Scala.
- Big Data Ecosystem | 2+ years of hands-on, professional experience with tools and platforms like Spark Streaming, EMR, Kafka.
- AWS Cloud | 2+ years of professional experience in developing Big Data applications in the cloud, specifically AWS.
- Experience with developing REST APIs
- Experience to develop Spark streaming jobs to read data from Kafka.
- Experience working with Google Analytics
- Experience working with digital marketing platforms such as Facebook, Google Ads, and so on.
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In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position which is not inclusive of bonuses, benefits or other forms of compensation that the position may be eligible for. If you are hired at Cars Commerce, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills and/or experience. If the salary range is close to what you're seeking, then we encourage you to apply and learn more about the total compensation package for this position.
Salary Range
$101,100—$140,000 USD
- Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
- 401(k) with Company Match + Immediate Vesting
- New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Generous PTO
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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!
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What We Do
Cars Commerce is an audience-driven technology company empowering automotive that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars. The Cars Commerce platform includes the flagship automotive marketplace and dealer reputation site Cars.com, innovative digital marketing technology and services from Dealer Inspire, industry-leading trade-in and appraisal technology from Accu-Trade, an exclusive in-market media network, and powerful and predictive AI technologies that enable more efficient and profitable retail operations. Cars Commerce is the essential partner to stay one step ahead in automotive.
Cars.com properties include DealerRater®, Dealer Inspire®, Auto.com™, PickupTrucks.com® and NewCars.com®. For more information, visit www.Cars.com.
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