Role overviewThe Developer Experience Architecture team at CarGurus builds the platforms, tooling, and standards that make hundreds of engineers faster, safer, and more productive. You will work on our highest-leverage initiatives: standardizing AI agentic development (Claude Code, our internal plugin marketplace, and MCP integrations), evolving our authentication and identity platform (Keycloak, OAuth2/OIDC), and improving the paved paths for service and job creation on AWS. These are complex, cross-cutting problems with global impact. You will own your projects and partner with engineers and product managers across the org. And no, you do not need to know about cars to work here.
What you'll do- Design and ship developer tooling, core frameworks, and reusable templates that raise engineering productivity and quality
- Advance our agentic development ecosystem: Claude Code configuration and governance, plugins and skills, and MCP servers
- Strengthen the Auth service and agent identity model using Keycloak, OAuth2, and OIDC
- Build and operate services with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes
- Define standards, guardrails, and best practices, then drive adoption across product teams
- Continuously assess, root cause, and improve system reliability and performance
What you'll bring- Five or more years of hands-on, fullstack software design and development, including at least two years of Java.
- Experience with client and server side JavaScript, including React, Node, and Remix, is a plus
- Experience building performant, large-scale web applications and cloud-native systems on AWS or similar cloud providers
- Working knowledge of authentication and identity standards (OAuth2/OIDC), or a strong appetite to learn them
- Hands-on experience applying modern AI coding tools (assistants, agents, MCP) to real engineering work
- Comfort writing tests, using observability tools, and owning projects end to end
- Curious, collaborative, and eager to learn
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
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Position Pay Range
$140,000-$176,000 USD
CarGurus may require in-person interviews as part of our hiring process, particularly for positions based in our Boston and Dublin offices. Candidates selected for an in-person interview will be notified in advance. Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate.
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