4 hours ago
Base Salary
$1 - $1/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship developer tooling, core frameworks, and reusable templates that improve engineering productivity and quality.
- Advance the agentic development ecosystem through Claude Code configuration and governance, plugins, skills, and MCP servers.
- Strengthen authentication services and agent identity models using Keycloak, OAuth2, and OIDC.
- Build and operate services with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Define standards, guardrails, and best practices and drive adoption across product teams.
- Assess systems, identify root causes, and improve reliability and performance.
- Lead technical solutions and complex projects from concept through completion with clear direction, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner across engineering and product teams to resolve technical challenges and build alignment without relying solely on direct authority.
- Prioritize work based on customer and business impact and translate technical decisions into measurable outcomes.
Requirements
- Eight or more years of hands-on full-stack software design and development experience, including at least five years of Java experience.
- Experience building performant, large-scale web applications and cloud-native systems on AWS or similar cloud providers.
- Working knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC authentication and identity standards, or a strong appetite to learn them.
- Hands-on experience applying modern AI coding tools, including assistants, agents, and MCP, to engineering work.
- Experience with client- and server-side JavaScript; React, Node, Remix, and Terraform experience is a plus.
- Comfort writing tests, using observability tools, and owning projects end to end.
- Deep expertise in a relevant technical stack, including code reviews, scalability, architecture, testing strategy, performance, and cross-team integration.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Curiosity, collaboration, and eagerness to learn.
Benefits
- Equity for all employees and potential discretionary bonuses or incentives and Restricted Stock Units.
- Flexible hybrid work model and robust time-off policies.
- Daily free lunch, new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and other perks.
- Career development programs, corporate giving programs, employee resource groups, and communities.
- In-person interviews may be required, particularly for positions based in the Boston and Dublin offices, with candidate responsibility for travel expenses.
Tech Stack
About CarGurus
CarGurus was founded in 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Langley Steinert, co-founder of TripAdvisor, who saw an opportunity to create a better car-shopping experience using technology and data analytics. Today, CarGurus is the leading multinational automotive platform helping consumers and dealers confidently buy and sell vehicles. Our culture fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering Gurus with opportunities and resources to fuel their career growth. We aim to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination. Ready to join us for the ride? Apply now!