CarGurus
Automotive Marketplace
Manager,SoftwareDevelopmentEngineering
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“Manager, Software Development Engineering at CarGurus. Skills: AI-native development, Agentic programming, Consumer-facing AI. Lead, mentor, and grow engineers. Support technical development”
Industry & Context.
Technical trade-offs; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years engineering experience, 3+ years management/lead role, Solid backend foundation, Java/Spring environments, Distributed systems, Data layer design, Bachelor's degree in CS/CE, Equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Experience delivering consumer-facing AI features, Experience with conversational AI, Experience with agentic AI experiences
What You'll Do.
Support technical development
Drive Purchase roadmap
Champion AI-forward practices
Promote AI coding assistants
Promote agentic workflows
Promote AI-driven tooling
Lead transition to agentic programming
Define AI experiences
Drive delivery of AI features
Decompose initiatives
Drive incremental delivery
Collaborate across teams
Align on dependencies
Define integration requirements
Ensure platform evolves reliably
Pitch in where needed
Dive into technical design
Advocate for engineering excellence
Improve process and tooling
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Consumer engineering teams; Dealer engineering teams; Platform engineering teams; Product; UX; Analytics; Design
Process & Methodology
Agile, Roadmap planning, Estimation, Scope management
Full Job Description
Who we are At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years. What we do The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride! Role overview CarGurus is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Purchase team within our Consumer Engineering department. The Purchase team owns the consumer journey from the moment a shopper decides on a car to the moment the deal is done. That means delivering an experience that meets consumers where they are—whether they want agents to handle the heavy lifting on their behalf, or prefer to be guided through each step of financing, trade-in, and deal configuration themselves. This is a pivotal leadership role at an exciting moment: we are actively transitioning our engineering practices toward AI-native and fully agentic development, and this manager will be a key driver of that transformation. You'll lead a team of talented engineers, shape the technical vision for one of our most strategically important product areas, and champion AI-forward ways of working—from integ
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