Lead Sr. Revenue Data Engineer

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.  

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

Data is the driver for our future at Cars Commerce. We’re searching for a collaborative, analytical, and innovative engineer to build scalable and highly performant platforms, systems and tools to enable innovations and automation with data. If you are passionate about building large scale systems, data driven products and trying to automate everything, we want to hear from you.

ABOUT THIS ROLE: 

• Build data pipelines and derive insights out of the data using advanced analytic techniques, streaming and machine learning at scale

• Work within a dynamic, forward thinking team environment where you will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical, highly visible Big Data and Machine Learning applications

• Build, deploy and support data pipelines and ML models into production.

• Work in close partnership with other Engineering teams, including Data Science, & cross-functional teams, such as Finance and Sales to mentor others on the team and share your knowledge across the Cars.com organization

• Use a variety of tools to automate manual processes to drive efficiency and allow analysts to focus on deeper level functions.

• Lead a team and communicate with the management, stakeholders about project status

• Integrate disparate data sources and systems to piece together a unified view of products and services

ABOUT YOU: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience

• Data Engineering | 5+ years of designing & developing data pipelines or real-time applications at enterprise scale; specifically Python and/or Scala. 

• Frontend Technologies | 5+ years of hands on experience with tools like HTML and JavaScript

• Backend Technologies | 5+ years of experience with databases such as SQL Server, RedShift, Snowflake, MongoDB, Oracle, or Teradata

• Cloud | 5+ years of experience in developing Big Data applications in the cloud, preferably AWS or Azure.

• 4+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• 2+ years experience leading data platform projects including engineering mentorship

Preferred:

• Experience with developing REST APIs.

• Experience in deploying ML models into production and integrating them into production applications for use.

• Experience with machine learning / deep learning using R, Python, Jupyter, Zeppelin, TensorFlow, etc.

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Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• 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

Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages!

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