Go Engineer, Vehicle Data & Inventory, Tempe

Go Engineer, Vehicle Data & Inventory

6 Days Old

About Carvana

"We believe CVNA is in the early stages of becoming the next U.S. retail category killer."

- Stephens Investment Bank, Analyst Report, Sept. 2024

Building leading-edge technology has been at the core of Carvana's strategy since our founding, driving us to become the 3rd fastest company in history to organically reach the Fortune 500, following only Amazon and Google. Today, we remain founder-led and as ambitious as ever. In 2024, we not only emerged as the fastest-growing automotive retailer but also the most profitable, thanks to our deep vertical integration across retail, lending, vehicle transportation, wholesale auctions, and more.

If you want to grow, not just as an Engineer, but as a leader and business-builder, Carvana is the place for you. Our technology teams build:

End-to-end e-commerce for both selling and buying cars, including everything you see on Carvana.com and in our mobile apps.
AI-driven customer support across chat, email, SMS, and voice, as well as a proprietary CRM platform to ensure the most efficient and highest-quality customer experience.
360° vehicle photography and interactive merchandising using cutting-edge computer vision and AI techniques.
The most sophisticated and self-service automotive lending platform in the world.
Systems and tools behind a nationwide logistics network that has delivered and picked up over 3 million cars via our fully owned and operated fleet of automotive haulers, efficiently managing distribution of our massive inventory to 85% of US driveways.
Enterprise-grade systems for operating the largest vehicle reconditioning facilities in the US, with workflow and automation to guide the work for everything mechanical, electrical, and cosmetic needed to bring each car to our high standards.
Early adoption and customization of AI tools for optimizing our Developer efficiency and experience.

And much, much more...

THIS IS A 100% ON-SITE POSITION FROM OUR HQ IN TEMPE (Monday through Friday)

About the team and position

The Vehicle Data & Inventory team manages Carvana's massive vehicle data systems where our ultimate goal is to generate advanced insights as well as accurate and actionable intelligence on every vehicle available in the US car market. We develop APIs, pipelines, algorithms, architectures, and applications to support all stages of vehicle acquisition and merchandising.

What you'll be doing

Design, develop, maintain, and deploy complex back-end solutions using Go and cloud services (Azure, AWS).
Work with cloud-based systems, pipelines, and resources.
Perform data storage and persistence container querying using SQL, NoSQL, and caching technologies.
Develop loosely coupled solutions that are scalable, testable, modularized, and reusable.
Work in a team environment using Agile project approaches (Scrum, Kanban).
Participate in all Scrum activities such as creating user stories, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives.
Create and monitor dashboards and alerts to maintain the high availability of our services and pipelines.
Learn new technologies, approaches, and bring Carvana software engineering to the next level.

What you should know

Expertise with Go.
At least 5 years of software development, with consistently advancing skills and responsibilities.
Proven track record and passion for learning new programming languages and software frameworks.
Experience in using at least one cloud service (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Experience in working with both SQL and NoSQL storage backends.
Experience in automated testing best strategies and principles.
Experience in debugging and troubleshooting web services, APIs, libraries, and cloud deployments.
Good technical and personal communication and collaboration skills, including verbal and written skills, interpersonal relational skills, and a positive and constructive attitude.

It would be great if you also had

Experience with Node, TypeScript, and C#.
Technical leadership experience including a demonstrated proficiency in working closely with product management partners and diverse stakeholders to incept, design, develop, and ultimately deliver robust value-adding software solutions.
Experience mentoring and guiding the technical and career progression of junior engineers.
Experience designing system architectures for scale and high availability.
Experience in writing GraphQL interfaced services.
Experience in container-oriented architecture using Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience in using pub-sub or message queues, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

What we'll offer in return

Competitive salary and Carvana stock compensation.
Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
401K with company match.
A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more.
A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally.
Access to opportunities to expand your skillset and share your knowledge with others across the organization.
A company culture of promotions from within, with a start-up atmosphere allowing for varied and rapid career development.

Other requirements

To be able to do your job at Carvana, there are some basic requirements we want to share with you.

Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Of course, we'll make any reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their jobs.

Legal Stuff

Hiring is contingent on passing a complete background check. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Carvana is an equal employment opportunity employer. All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Carvana also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Location:: Tempe

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