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About Carvana

At Carvana, we're changing the way people buy and sell cars. With an ambitious vision and a fundamentally different approach designed to be fun, fast, and fair, Carvana became the fastest-growing automotive retailer in history. We expanded nationally, went public on the New York Stock Exchange, sold our 1 millionth car, and reached the Fortune 500, all in just eight years. 

Today, with 4 million retail customers and counting, Carvana is both the fastest-growing and the most profitable public automotive retailer, and we're just getting started. We continue to raise the bar for our customers as we tackle the enormous opportunity still ahead in the largest consumer vertical.  

Working here means being part of a team that embraces change, celebrates creative problem solving, and always strives to be better. At Carvana, you'll have the opportunity to take on meaningful challenges, learn quickly, and help shape the future of automotive retail. If you're driven to grow and make an impact as part of a collaborative team, you'll fit right in. Learn more about what it's like to work here from the people that already do. 

This is a fully on-site position, Monday through Friday, at our corporate HQ in Carmel, IN.

About the team and position

The team you will lead is building a brand-new, AI-first, and cloud-native platform from scratch. Opportunities for greenfield development on a platform this consequential don't come around often. The backend is enterprise-grade .NET on Azure - Postgres, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure Functions, App Services - built for high-volume transaction processing and resilience. APIs are GraphQL, federated into a single graph and a service-oriented architecture. The frontend is React, TypeScript, and micro-frontends running in a monorepo. Everything ships through a multi-stage CI/CD pipeline across development, staging, and UAT environments.

You'll lead and write code with 6 engineers and have real ownership of technical direction and roadmap prioritization - including navigating the realities of running modern and classic systems side by side.

What you'll be doing

• Lead your team in developing and operating our customer experience platform while diving deep with internal 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 

What you should have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or similar field from an accredited undergraduate institution required.
• At least 5 years of software engineering, with consistently advancing skills and responsibilities
• 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
• Experience creating available, scalable, low-latency, global customer management systems
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting web services, API, and libraries
• Experience or desire to lead a team of Engineers and coach them in their career
• 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, AngularJS, 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, 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 writing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in using CDN to deliver static content
• Experience in CQRS and/or Event Sourcing
• Experience in working with GraphQL
• Experience in working with OIDC protocols and managed AuthN/Z frameworks

What we'll offer in return

• Full-Time position with a competitive salary and Carvana stock compensation
• 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 focused on high performance and bar-raising, with vast opportunity to learn and grow

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 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.