Team Lead, Engineering

About Carvana...

If you like disrupting the norm and are looking for a company revolutionizing an industry then you will LOVE what Carvana has done for the car buying experience. Buying a car the old fashioned way sucks and we are working hard to make it NOT suck. At Carvana, our customers can hop online to...

• Search and browse our inventory of over 20,000 vehicles that we own and certify.
• Narrow down search results using highly intelligent filtering tools/components.
• View vehicle details, Carfax reports, and 360 rotating studio images for every vehicle.
• Secure financing in minutes using Carvana’s in-house service or their own bank.
• Interact with GUI components to easily customize loan length, down payment, and monthly payment.
• Generate, upload, and eSign all documents online (no ink necessary).
• Schedule front door delivery or pick up at one of our vending machines.
• Trade-in their existing vehicle or just sell it to Carvana (no purchase necessary).

For more on Carvana and our mission, sneak a peek and learn more about what it’s like to work here from the people that already do. 

THIS IS A 100% ON-SITE POSITION (Monday through Friday)

About the team and position:

Carvana’s Marketplace team is at the heart of our mission to change the way people buy cars. 

We are responsible for building industry-leading digital marketplaces where wholesale dealers can buy and sell vehicles.

We are seeking an Engineering Team Lead to join us in creating innovative solutions for our customers. This role involves managing the marketplace experience team responsible for building our buyer focused applications on our new digital auction website. This is accomplished through building highly available, distributed, and reliable services.

As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our marketplace applications and contribute directly to our company's success. Our team consists of highly competent, driven engineers located across the United States. We pride ourselves on our collaborative culture that values diversity of thought and encourages continual professional growth.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead your team in developing and operating our digital marketplaces while diving deep with external partners to launch new products
• Hire and develop your engineers, helping them learn and achieve their own goals while holding them - and yourself - to high engineering standards
• Develop efficient processes, ensuring the engineering team is operating with high velocity, quality, and ownership
• Focus your team on increasing resiliency and uptime while decreasing the blast radius of software changes and tracking and improving customer-facing metrics
• Work with our product, design, business, and operations teams to develop resilient solutions while driving impact for our car purchasing experience 
• Actively contributing to the delivery of our products by writing and delivering code to production
• Owning the technical decisions and architecture of the solutions built by your team

What you should have:

• A comprehensive understanding of software craftsmanship ideals - clean code principles, unit testing fundamentals, design pattern selection and application, architectural pattern selection and application, and DevOps principles
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Experience creating available, scalable, low-latency, web applications
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting web services, APIs, and libraries
• Experience or desire to lead a team of Engineers and coach them in their career
• At least 4 years of software engineering, with consistently advancing skills and responsibilities.
• Extensive experience with .Net and C#
• Experience with at least one functional/scripting language (JavaScript, Python).
• Strong skills with any contemporary UI framework or library, such as React (Preferable), Angular, or VUE
• Experience in building contemporary scalable solutions, supporting high load and availability, understanding caching, sharding, container-based architecture
• Experience in working with any cloud (AWS, Azure (Preferable), GCP, RedHat, etc.) 
• Experience in contemporary code quality practices: writing unit and integration tests, using test coverage, CI/CD, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects, and rapidly changing priorities
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, especially in representing their technical expertise to a diverse audience
• Self-motivated; work well both independently and collaboratively
• A positive attitude and an excellent sense of humor
• Experience in building a microservice architecture
• Experience in working with data storages (SQL or NoSQL)
• Experience in using CDN to deliver static content
• Experience in CQRS and/or Event Sourcing
• Experience in working with GraphQL. (Federated Graph would be a bonus)
• Experience in working with OIDC protocols and managed AuthN/Z frameworks

Optional Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Monorepos (Nx specifically)
• Experience with Micro Frontends and Module Federation
• Experience working with bidding systems
• Experience with payments and checkout processes
• Experience with AI tools like Copilot to streamline your daily work

What we'll offer in return

• Full-Time Salary Position with a competitive salary
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
• 401K with company match
• A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more
• A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally
• Access to opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge with others across the organization
• A company culture of promotions from within, with a start-up atmosphere allowing for varied and rapid career development

Don’t meet 100% of the qualifications?

At Carvana, we value diversity in backgrounds and experiences. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't fit exactly. Give it a shot!

Legal Stuff

Hiring is contingent on passing a complete background check. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Carvana is an equal employment opportunity employer. All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Carvana also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.