Senior Software Engineering Manager

Cars Commerce is dedicated to transforming the automotive buying and selling experience through innovative technology. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead teams in delivering high-quality software solutions while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Lead full-stack delivery: Direct one or more teams that own several backend services and front-end applications; own the end-to-end delivery of the domain roadmap; set clear objectives, groom several sprints of backlog, and hold the bar on Jira hygiene and velocity transparency
• Drive product road-mapping & prioritization: Serve as a strategic partner to Product Managers to translate business goals into measurable milestones and customer outcomes; balance new feature work with technical debt and platform investments
• Coach, develop, and scale talent: Provide frequent 1-1s, actionable feedback, and growth plans for senior engineers and leads; mentor emerging managers as the org expands; cultivate a diverse, inclusive culture of psychological safety and continuous learning
• Steward production reliability & security: Own SLOs, on-call rotations, incident command, and post-mortem learning; ensure adherence to security and compliance maintenance guidelines and vulnerability-remediation SLAs
• Operational excellence through metrics: Use a data-driven approach to continuous improvement, monitoring DORA, change-failure rate, incident MTTR, and CapEx accuracy; initiate improvement plans when trends deviate from targets
• Architectural guidance & modernization: Review designs for extensibility, backwards compatibility, and cost efficiency (backend); guide the technical strategy for reusable components, modular architecture, and developer ergonomics (frontend); promote modern practices in CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps across all owned systems
• Cross-functional influence: Coordinate integrations with adjacent domains, negotiate timelines and API contracts, and represent Core Services in company-wide program reviews
• Hiring & org shaping: Partner with Talent Acquisition to build a diverse pipeline, run structured interviews, and make evidence-based hiring decisions; forecast head-count needs as product scope grows

Requirements:

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineers
• Proven track record shipping and operating business-critical backend services and front-end web applications at scale
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
• Event-driven and API-driven systems
• Understanding of component libraries, modular front-end systems
• Comfortable reviewing designs for scalability, resilience, and cost
• Demonstrated ability to plan, forecast capacity, and use Jira, DORA, and DX metrics to drive predictable outcomes and continuous improvement
• Skilled at coaching senior/staff engineers, giving direct and constructive feedback, resolving conflict, and fostering an inclusive, high-trust culture aligned with company values
• Comfortable co-authoring OKRs, making scope/risk trade-offs, and communicating decisions to executives and cross-functional stakeholders
• Familiar with incident management best practices, observability stacks (DataDog), vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps pipelines
• Able to tailor technical and non-technical narratives to engineers, product managers, and executives alike
• Proven record of influencing beyond direct authority
• Experience with Elixir/Phoenix and/or TypeScript/Deno/Next.JS technology stacks