Software Engineer (Front End)

Edmunds offers flexibility to work fully remote, from our Edquarters, or a combination of both

At Edmunds we’re driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60’s, the company has been in the business of trust, innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first Internet site in 1994, we established a leadership position online and have never looked back. Now, as one of the most trusted review sites on the Internet, millions of visitors use our research, shopping and buying tools every month to make an easy and informed decision on their next car. For consumers, we bring peace of mind. For dealers, we make tools to help them solve their problems and sell more cars. How do we do it, you ask? The key ingredients are our enthusiastic employees, progressive company culture and cutting-edge technology. Want to join the team? Read on to find out how!

What You’re Applying For

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in crafting and implementing cutting-edge solutions aimed at enhancing the car shopping experience for users. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing intuitive, feature-rich applications that empower car shoppers throughout their research and purchasing journey. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into innovative software solutions, leveraging your expertise in front-end development to deliver seamless and impactful user experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Help customers complete more of the automotive transaction online by building deeper integrations with forward-looking dealers. Assure shoppers that they are getting a good deal by revamping the way we present pricing on our website
• Streamline the way customers reach out to dealers through our platform by optimizing the performance of those pages
• Research and evangelize modern Javascript best practices and client-side application design
• Coordinate the development of front-end features from technical design to production deployment
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other software engineers
  
  

What You Need

• Demonstrated ability to see projects to completion both independently and working in close collaboration with others in a team environment.
• Experience in building, unit testing, documenting, and refactoring client-side applications
• Familiarity with testing strategies, cross-browser compatibility, and clientside performance optimization
• Experience with React and isomorphic Javascript to design and develop immersive user experiences. Node.js experience is a plus
• Experience implementing responsive designs with CSS and ensure optimal page performance as defined by internal and industry-standard metrics including Google Core Web Vitals
• Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, you'll leverage your proficiency in both front-end and back-end development to create seamless solutions that empower car shoppers throughout their research and purchasing journey
• Experience working with Backend services in leveraging in-house/3rd Party APIs using REST and/or GraphQL
• Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus (AWS is preferred)
• Experience building email templates with Marketo a plus
  
  

Why would you want this job?

• You love building intuitive and elegant user interfaces
• You want to make a real impact on the way people buy cars
• You appreciate working with talented individuals in a variety of roles including software engineering, product management, and design
  
  

The compensation range for this position is $109,900 - $191,800 per year. The base pay will take into account internal equity as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. In addition, Edmunds offers full-time employees a comprehensive total rewards package including the benefits listed below.

Edmunds Perks

• Flexible time off
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)
• 401K Plan with company matching at 100%, up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting
• Stock purchase program
• CarMax vehicle discount
• Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave
• HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them
• 2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes
• FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees
• Well being sessions and events such as yoga, meditation and walking challenges
• On-going career development sessions and an annual learning event
• Pet insurance
• Sabbatical leave
• Education Reimbursement
• Pre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses
• Plus a coffee bar, frozen yogurt and more!
  
  

Working @ Edmunds.com:

Employees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by the Fortune Magazine and Great Places to Work, LA Business Journal (for the last 6 years!), Computerworld, Built in LA and Inc. Magazine. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology and also for Diversity and Asian Americans. If you’re interested in learning more and joining our mission, we’d love to hear from you!

Edmunds will consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.

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