Senior JavaScript Engineer, AI Team

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Role overview

CarGurus is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer, specializing in JavaScript, to join our skunkworks team focusing on generative AI. The team is exploring the use of generative AI at CarGurus. We are seeking an experienced, engaged, and experimental engineer who can use generative AI to transform the car shopping experience for our users. Additionally, we collaborate with the rest of the Engineering organization to support the use of generative AI. We are constantly coming up with new ideas, experimenting, and evolving our roadmap as technology rapidly evolves.

What you'll do

• Very closely collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to focus on and solve customer problems

• Work in fast-paced and experimental environment where you'll be frequently evaluating and comparing different solutions

• Collaborate with your colleagues on architecture designs

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript and React

• Experience with Node.js and frameworks such as Remix, Next.js, and Express, or with OpenAI or other large language models are a plus

• Proficient at developing well-structured web applications

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines

• Deep understanding of design patterns

• Self-led, capable of working with little direction

• Skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit

Working at CarGurus

We reward our Gurus' curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.

We welcome all

CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential-starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That's why we hope you'll apply even if you don't check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid