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Cars Commerce

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eCommerce • Automotive • Marketplace

Cars Commerce is a comprehensive online platform that facilitates the buying, selling, and research of vehicles. It provides a wide range of listings for new and used cars, along with tools and resources for customers to compare different makes and models, read reviews, and obtain financing options. With a focus on enhancing the car shopping experience, Cars Commerce connects sellers with local dealers and offers estimates for vehicle sales, ensuring a streamlined process for prospective buyers and sellers alike.

1001 - 5000 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

📋 Description

• Lead Front-End Architecture: Define and drive reusable, reliable, and scalable front-end architectures across the Cars Commerce platform experiences. • Author and Evolve Component Libraries: Lead design and development of shared UI components and design systems, with attention to accessibility, theming, maintainability, and developer ergonomics. • Champion UX and Front-End Performance: Optimize user-focused performance across browsers and devices. • Partner with design and product to improve interactivity and visual fidelity. • Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, and product partners across teams to align on front-end strategies and standards, elevate UI consistency, and reduce duplication. • Mentorship and Influence: Serve as a front-end thought leader and mentor, coaching other engineers and shaping team/department-wide best practices. • Drive Documentation and DX: Treat components and libraries as products. Develop excellent documentation, innovative usage patterns, and internal developer experience. • Contribute Full-Stack as Needed: Collaborate with backend developers to integrate UIs with APIs. While your focus is front-end, you’re comfortable navigating the full stack.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience • 10+ years of experience in frontend engineering, including a deep knowledge of JavaScript (and TypeScript), having working familiarity with, but no loyalty to, multiple frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte, etc) • Expert-level understanding of browser fundamentals: HTML, CSS (Flexbox, Grid), DOM, event lifecycle, rendering, and performance tuning. • Strong experience using browser dev tools across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. for layout debugging, JS tracing, and performance profiling. • Demonstrated experience architecting and maintaining component-based design systems with support for theming, responsive behavior, and accessibility. • Passion for user experience, developer ergonomics, and performance measurement (including Core Web Vitals). • Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence others, and align multiple teams around technical direction. • Solid understanding of working with back-end technologies, architectural patterns, RESTful APIs, and authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth, JWT, etc). • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution, and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans • New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up • Generous PTO • Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset • Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day