Software Engineer (Appraisals)
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 join our Product Innovation portfolio. The Appraisal team drives engagement with our strategic partners both online and in person, and provides technical expertise for partner integrations in the rapidly-growing automotive ecommerce space. As a member of the team, you'll make it easy for users to sell or trade in their cars, and you'll help them make smart decisions based on accurate and unbiased Edmunds Suggested Price data.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with other software engineers and product managers to build accessible and engaging user interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks
- Work with other software engineers, teams and strategic partners to build nimble and performant APIs with Node.js
- Work with other software engineers and product managers to improve existing tools and products built with vanilla JavaScript, React+Redux, Angular, Java, and Python
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
- Practice collective code ownership and mutually beneficial code reviews
What You Need:
- Experience writing, documenting, and delivering maintainable client-side JavaScript software based on business and technical requirements
- Proficiency with web markup including HTML5, CSS3, and server-side preprocessing such as SASS
- Proficiency with ES6 JavaScript and at least one modern UI framework like React, Vue, or Angular
- Knowledge of modern web development best practices and ability to write performant cross-browser compatible code
- Willingness to learn and work in all levels of the technology stack
- Nice to have: experience writing isomorphic applications with React+Redux
- Nice to have: experience writing unit and e2e tests for CD/CI pipelines
- Nice to have: experience writing client-side AB test experiments
- Nice to have: experience building Node.js applications
- Nice to have: familiarity with HTML4 and vanilla ES5 JavaScript
- Nice to have: familiarity with third party JavaScript SDKs like Google Tag Manager
Edmunds Tech Blog
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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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