Senior Software Engineer

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Midtown, TN
5-7 Years Experience
Automotive • Retail
The Role
In this role, you will lead the development of innovative digital products at CarMax, collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand customer challenges and create effective solutions. You will engage in the entire product development lifecycle, applying your skills in both front-end and back-end technologies while enhancing the customer experience through constant experimentation and feedback.
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8116 - Midtown Office - 2220 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23220

CarMax, the way your career should be! 

About this job

At CarMax, we are industry disruptors. At the heart of our innovation is new digital products. Working on many different aspects of the customer experience, our Senior Engineers research and discover new opportunities and shape products to fulfill them. From inception to completion, you will develop tools and technology, learning quickly from our spirit of experimentation. You will have a direct impact on improving the performance of our business and ensuring customers can buy the vehicles they want in a way that is right for them!

What you will do – Essential Responsibilities

  • Work with fellow associates to understand the real-life challenges of customers and how to provide them with an exceptional digital shopping experience.
  • Collaborate with colleagues in product design, product management and systems architecture to develop experimental solutions and bring great ideas to life.
  • Market your innovative ideas internally and evolve them according to feedback and critique within an agile environment.
  • Stay on top of industry trends and best practice to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be.

Purpose of the role

It takes a passion for technology to develop ground-breaking products. Working collaboratively and creatively as part of a close-knit product team, you will be part of the development process from end to end: consulting users, carrying out experiments, tackling complex business problems and implementing new products. You can balance customer needs with business goals and know how to deliver technical solutions that enhance business value. Creative, curious, and highly analytical, you never stop learning and thrive on constant change in the digital marketplace.

Qualifications and Requirements

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.
  • Strong teamwork skills, ability to learn quickly, excellent written and spoken communication required.
  • 5+ years of application development experience required.

Experience in the following Required

  • Hands on UX / UI programming experience with Vue/Angular/React.
  • Hands on programming using backend technologies such as C#.
  • Microsoft Azure or AWS required.
  • Experience working with Agile and DevOps methodologies, required.
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs
  • Familiarity with HTML / CSS 
  • GIT experience

Experience in the following preferred:

  • Azure experience preferred.
  • Experience with Front-end architecture preferred.
  • Experience in a Microsoft .Net Core (C#) preferred.
  • Experience in a Microsoft .NET 6/7/8 preferred.
  • Experience working within a product organization preferred.

Work Location and Arrangement: This role will be based out of the Richmond, VA CarMax Technology Innovation Center, Atlanta CAF Center, or the Dallas, TX Technology Hub and have a Hybrid work arrangement.

Work Authorization: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

About CarMax

CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity experience customers want and deserve. This innovative thinking around the way cars are bought and sold has helped us become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, with over 200 locations nationwide.

Our amazing team of more than 25,000 associates work together to deliver iconic customer experiences. Along the way, we help every associate grow their career and achieve their best, at work and in their community. We are recognized for our commitment to training and diversity and are one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

CarMax is committed to bringing together people from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe, welcoming, and inclusive work environment.

CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, and any other characteristics protected by law.

Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application.

Top Skills

C#
The Company
HQ: Richmond, VA
25,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

CarMax revolutionized the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity car buying experience customers want and deserve. This disruptive thinking has helped us become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars with more than 200 stores nationwide. And thanks to our amazing team of nearly 25,000 associates, we have been recognized as one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® - 16 years in a row!

Committed to hiring people with strong values of integrity, transparency and respect, we offer unmatched training and support for associate career growth, and have been recognized as one of Training Magazine’s "Training Top 125" companies in America. We are also proud to be a best place to work for Veterans, and the #2 Best Workplace for Retail.

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