Senior JavaScript Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Consumer Awareness team at CarGurus, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the car shopping journey for millions of consumers. You will be part of a fast-paced team responsible for building and scaling customer-centric and innovative components and pages that attract 39 million visitors each month. Your work will focus on improving user engagement, satisfaction, and overall consumer experience through data-driven insights.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, data analysts, and other engineers to understand and solve consumer problems.
• Continuously improve site performance and user experience.
• Contribute to research and architectural design discussions to build best-in-class solutions to customer challenges.
• Write clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
• Engage deeply in the full software development lifecycle, including discovery, architectural design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iterating.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Proven expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript (ES2024), React, HTML, and CSS, ideally in fast-paced environments.
• Deep understanding of modern frontend design patterns and best practices, including frontend accessibility, performance, Core Web Vitals, observability, testing, tooling, and working with component libraries such as Radix UI and Tailwind UI.
• Experience with Remix, Next.js, Express, or Node.js is a plus.
• Great communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, able to provide and receive feedback well, and ask insightful questions.

Working at CarGurus

CarGurus rewards curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees. 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 where 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. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. Let us know if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support.