Engineering Manager, Competitive & Market Intelligence
Job Summary
Job Description
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 3 years of leadership/management experience
- Expertise with Java or Python
- Understanding of ML techniques and when to use them
- Understanding of AI tools and hands on experience using them
- Experience building scalable data products
- Equity for all employees
- Career development and corporate giving programs
- Employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities
- Flexible hybrid model
- Robust time off policies
- Daily free lunch
- New car discount
- Meditation and fitness apps
- Commuting cost coverage
5 skills required
Job Details
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!
CarGurus is seeking an Engineering Manager – Competitive & Market Intelligence to lead the development of innovative reporting and insights tools that empower auto dealers with a deeper understanding of their local markets and competitive landscape. This role will be pivotal in shaping the dealer experience by providing data-driven guidance that helps them make more informed business decisions.
In this role, you’ll manage a team of 5 and work closely with Product, Data Science, Product Data Analytics, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to deliver scalable, insightful, and intuitive market intelligence solutions. If you're a strategic thinker and executor who thrives on transforming complex data into impactful, easy-to-understand insights, we’d love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do
- Manage a team of talented engineers while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the broader team
- Ensure your team writes clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
- Take generic tasks and break them into small, self-contained tasks.
- Accurately estimate and prioritize units of work and drive the incremental release of moderately sized projects
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving software
- Contribute to road mapping discussions by proposing new ideas for technical investment and providing estimates
- Advocate for new technology and new methodologies
- Continuously learn and expand your capabilities
- Have Fun!
What You’ll Bring
- Life long learning skills
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 3 years of leadership/management experience
- Expertise with Java or Python
- General understanding of ML techniques and when to use them
- Understanding of AI tools and has hands on experience using them
- Experience building scalable data products and is capable of gathering insights from them
- Excellent Project management skills
- People focused technical leader with high Emotional Intelligence
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
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About The Company
CarGurus was founded in 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Langley Steinert, co-founder of TripAdvisor, who saw an opportunity to create a better car-shopping experience using technology and data analytics. In just over a decade, CarGurus has become the most visited automotive shopping site in the US, with more car listings than any other major online automotive marketplace. CarGurus also operates sites in Canada and the UK. Interested in becoming a Guru? Make sure to view our dozens of open roles and positions!
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