Frontend Manager, International Consumer Engineering
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination.
Job Description
Role Overview
As a Manager on the International Engineering Team, you will play a pivotal role in developing and leading a team of talented engineers focused on building and shipping high-quality products at scale. In this role, you will embody our Leadership Capabilities by maintaining a focus on customer impact, fostering open communication and cross-team collaboration, and embracing an iterative approach to both product development and team management.
Examples of potential project opportunities include collaborating with API engineers to build new user flows for new International products, designing and implementing A/B tests on consumer and dealer product initiatives, and redesigning high-traffic pages to leverage modern technologies like Remix to improve user experience.
Join us and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our international consumer products while empowering the team and our International user base. No need to be a car expert—we’re more interested in your passion for engineering and your leadership!
Who You Are
- Proven experience of 2+ years in managing and growing teams of full stack engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
- Minimum of 5 years of extensive hands-on software design and frontend development experience in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS.
- Experience with full stack development with Remix, express, next.js or similar.
- Experience thriving in cross-functional environments where you have demonstrated rigorous thinking and effective decision-making.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers through architecture and design guidance, coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across product, design, and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure alignment on projects and objectives to optimize impact on international customers.
- Engage in hands-on coding with frontend technologies such as Remix, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, and React Testing Library.
- Build reusable and scalable architecture while upholding high engineering standards and implementing and evolving best practices.
- Own problems from end-to-end, managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies to optimize efficiency and user experience.
- Manage diverse systems, processes, and technologies to enhance efficiency and user experience.
- Recruit and retain top engineering talent in partnership with the recruiting team to maintain a diverse and high-performing team.
- Support team members' career growth through individualized guidance and development opportunities tailored to their goals.
- Embrace our leadership capabilities by embodying a growth mindset and fostering an environment of learning, developing, and growing together; create meaningful partnerships and a sense of belonging, setting foundations of trust, respect, inclusion, and empathy in how we work.
Role Overview
As a Manager on the International Engineering Team, you will play a pivotal role in developing and leading a team of talented engineers focused on building and shipping high-quality products at scale. In this role, you will embody our Leadership Capabilities by maintaining a focus on customer impact, fostering open communication and cross-team collaboration, and embracing an iterative approach to both product development and team management.
Examples of potential project opportunities include collaborating with API engineers to build new user flows for new International products, designing and implementing A/B tests on consumer and dealer product initiatives, and redesigning high-traffic pages to leverage modern technologies like Remix to improve user experience.
Join us and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our international consumer products while empowering the team and our International user base. No need to be a car expert—we’re more interested in your passion for engineering and your leadership!
Who You Are
- Proven experience of 2+ years in managing and growing teams of full stack engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
- Minimum of 5 years of extensive hands-on software design and frontend development experience in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS.
- Experience with full stack development with Remix, express, next.js or similar.
- Experience thriving in cross-functional environments where you have demonstrated rigorous thinking and effective decision-making.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers through architecture and design guidance, coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across product, design, and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure alignment on projects and objectives to optimize impact on international customers.
- Engage in hands-on coding with frontend technologies such as Remix, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, and React Testing Library.
- Build reusable and scalable architecture while upholding high engineering standards and implementing and evolving best practices.
- Own problems from end-to-end, managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies to optimize efficiency and user experience.
- Manage diverse systems, processes, and technologies to enhance efficiency and user experience.
- Recruit and retain top engineering talent in partnership with the recruiting team to maintain a diverse and high-performing team.
- Support team members' career growth through individualized guidance and development opportunities tailored to their goals.
- Embrace our leadership capabilities by embodying a growth mindset and fostering an environment of learning, developing, and growing together; create meaningful partnerships and a sense of belonging, setting foundations of trust, respect, inclusion, and empathy in how we work.
