Full-Time Senior Software Engineering Manager

Cars Commerce is unifying the car-buying journey on a new, data-driven platform. As a Senior Software Engineering Manager for the Inventory Services Team, you’ll:

• Guide autonomous teams that own several high-throughput, API-first services built in Elixir/Phoenix and deployed on AWS EKS.
• Work closely with Product leadership to turn six- to twelve-month business goals into an incremental, measurable roadmap.
• Champion sound engineering practices around observability, security and on-call health.
• Serve as incident commander and steward of production reliability for your domain.
• Influence platform architecture and shape cross-domain integrations that unlock new revenue streams.
• Help set the technical direction for the wider organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineers.
• Proven track record shipping and operating business-critical backend services at scale.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), event-driven and API-driven systems.
• Skilled at coaching senior/staff engineers, giving 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.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to plan increments, forecast capacity, and use Jira, DORA, and DX metrics to drive predictable outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Experience with Elixir/Phoenix, automotive-retail data pipelines, or leading platform modernization initiatives is a bonus.

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