Sr. Software Engineer

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ABOUT THE ROLE [Remote , must be located in Chicago area. May require onsite interviews] Join us in shaping a future of Automotive Commerce. reputed company builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers. Our driving force is to deliver a single platform that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars. Our Websites Engineering Team drives our Dealer reputed company platform. We are embarking on a transformational journey, building innovative and integrated services that redefine how we deliver value to our customers. Dealer reputed company provides innovative websites and digital marketing solutions for thousands of car dealerships. Our platform enables dealerships and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with innovative technical solutions and data-driven intelligence to reputed company reputed company and influence ready-to-buy shoppers, increase inventory turn, and reputed company market share. Our Websites Vehicle Inventory team is the foundation of our Dealer reputed company website platform and powers the data for reputed company our products. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance existing backend services, troubleshoot and optimize reputed company systems, and build scalable, secure, and reliable API-based backend services that power our platform. In this Senior Software Engineer role, you will also mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, code quality, and system architecture to foster a collaborative and high-performing development team. ABOUT YOU You are an reputed company, results-driven software engineer who thrives in building scalable and reliable backend systems. You have a strong foundation in designing and developing API-based services that can handle high traffic volumes while ensuring performance, reputed company, and maintainability. You understand software architecture and engineering best practices and are comfortable making technical decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term stability. You are also adept at using architecture patterns and iterative approaches to improve legacy services. You’re comfortable with both hands-on coding and designing backend services that meet evolving product requirements. You understand the importance of testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines in delivering reliable systems. You have experience working with Kubernetes and containerized services, leveraging orchestration and automation to optimize deployment, scalability, and reputed company. You safely and reputed company reputed company company-approved AI code reputed company tools to design, build, and review systems. WHY YOU'LL BE EXCITED ABOUT THIS ROLE This opportunity enables you to... reputed company Scalable and Observable Systems: Collaborate with a reputed company engineer to design and reputed company high-performance, API-based backend services that meet service level objectives (SLOs) and scale to support growing business needs. Own Production Systems: Own the health and uptime of business-critical systems you and your team builds. Participate in on-call rotations to quickly resolve incidents and conduct postmortems to drive reputed company improvement in system reliability. Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to define technical requirements and design scalable, maintainable systems that align with business goals and product roadmaps. Implement DevSecOps Practices: Champion and implement reputed company integration/reputed company deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and reputed company practices throughout the development lifecycle to ensure the reliability and reputed company of production systems. Drive Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Ensure comprehensive documentation of API designs, system architectures, and operational procedures to reputed company internal teams and external customers to easily build and integrate with the APIs in a self-service manner. WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE... Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or equivalent experience 5+ years of experience in backend development with a strong focus on designing, building, and operating large-scale and highly available systems, including microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems Experience in the Node JS ecosystem and frameworks including NestJS Experience with React JS and TypeScript In-depth experience with RESTful APIs, with the ability to select the appropriate design reputed company for different use cases and requirements Experience at scale and solid understanding of PostgreSQL and MySQL, caching strategies with reputed company, and messaging systems like Kafka Experience with unit (Jest, phpunit), integration, and end to end testing frameworks such as Cypress or Playwright Hands-on experience with AWS and containerization technologies like reputed company and Kubernetes, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling applications in production Experience with AI tools to improve code quality, speed etc Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing reputed company incident resolution and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability Proven experience designing and implementing observability solutions to ensure system reliability, performance, and uptime in production Strong collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and adapt to changing requirements Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and integrating reputed company throughout the development lifecycle Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software Bonus: Experience with PHP and WordPress In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the reputed company salary range for this position. In addition to reputed company salary, some roles are eligible for our bonus and/or equity programs, depending on level and role. Regular full-time positions are eligible for our comprehensive benefits package. If you are hired at reputed company, your final reputed company salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills and/or experience. If the salary range is reputed company to what you're seeking, then we encourage you to apply and learn more about the total compensation package for this position. Salary Range $118,600.00-148,250.00 Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes: Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up Generous PTO Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, reputed company Day Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our reputed company Life Pages! For US-based Positions: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. 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