Job Description

ABOUT SHIFT We believe car buying should be fun, fair, and accessible to everyone. We've set out to transform an industry, using technology to bring transparency and convenience to the car buying process.

And we aren't stopping there. We seek to bring that same openness and simplicity to car ownership too, with payments, maintenance, and insurance in one easy app. At SHIFT, we're building the tools that empower people to buy, own, and sell the cars that make life go. We've recently entered the public markets (Nasdaq: SFT) and are experiencing rapid growth. This is a great opportunity to join a hyper growth company changing an industry!

ABOUT THE ROLE  Engineers at Shift build things that matter and have a material impact to the company's bottom line and the customer's experience. In this role, you will drive exciting, meaningful projects, and help define our technical and product strategy. We move fast, have fun, and help each other out.

We're looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to help us build the world's best e-commerce and operations platform to drive car sales. As the F&I (Finance and Insurance) team lead, you are critical to our business and technical prowess. You will work directly with technical management at the company and raise the bar for Engineering, in code, quality and system design. You lead by example and foster a culture of technical excellence, humility and lifelong learning. 

This is an opportunity to join a fantastic team at a hi-tech fast-paced Silicon Valley company which is transforming an entire industry. You will report to the Head of Engineering for the Buyer group. We'd love to talk to you about what great things you'll do here. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead a team owning the F&I domain and transform the customer experience around it.
• Work with product management and operations to understand challenges and deliver solutions.
• Be a key contributor to Shift's tech stack and technical processes, working with engineers throughout the organization, partnering with Data Science and TechOps.
• Demonstrate best practices by delivering high quality testable maintainable code.
• Provide technical leadership for engineers with supportive but candid feedback in code reviews and architecture documents.
• Get core technology projects on the company roadmap. 
• Drive cross-team decisions to advance the tech stack and improve development velocity, quality, performance, and security.
• Participate in build v buy decisions.
• Participate in technical design, project planning and lead development of critical projects.

WHAT WE ASK FOR:

• An undying passion for computers, web technologies and an optimistic attitude to make things better. 
• 6-10+ years building technically complex software for the web.
• Experience with functional and object oriented programming in languages such as Ruby, Go, Python, C/C++, Java, PHP. 
• Experience developing SPAs and server-side rendered web-apps. You should know when to use which approach and be able to teach others. Knowledge of React and jQuery is a must. Typescript experience will set you apart.
• Be comfortable with ambiguous requirements, and have experience working with a team to iteratively and incrementally deliver production-ready software.
• Experience with backend development.
• Experience with relational databases. Strong Postgres experience will set you apart.
• Experience with deploying to AWS, GCP and using CDNs.
• Experience with monitoring and instrumentation tech and vendors such as Segment, New Relic, Datadog, Pingdom and PagerDuty.
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.

NICE-TO-HAVES:

• Experience working in e-commerce.
• Automotive experience, or general experience with contracts and service plans.
• A/B Testing and dark launches.

WHO WE ARE

At Shift, we're all about growth - which means people who are eager to grow, who are ready to roll up their sleeves and learn new things. We were founded by a scrappy group of visionaries who were by no means "car experts" - so we don't expect you to be one, either!

We'll take the open-minded go-getter over the pure subject matter expert any day. In that spirit, we also care about building a diverse and inclusive workplace and company. To put it simply, cars are meant for everyone, so we believe our company should be, too. We never discriminate against any candidate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We welcome and encourage people of all backgrounds and walks of life to apply, even if you're unsure if you meet all the requirements. (Even if this particular role isn't the right fit, chances are we will have the right one soon!)

WHY JOIN NOW? 

Having gone public in October 2020, we are at the beginning of our journey and hope you join us for the ride! Shift is a leading end-to-end auto e-commerce platform transforming the used car industry with a technology-driven, hassle-free customer experience. Shift's mission is to make buying or selling a used car fun, fair, and accessible to everyone. 

We provide comprehensive, digital solutions throughout the car ownership lifecycle: finding the right car, having a test drive brought to you before buying the car, a seamless digitally-driven purchase transaction including financing and vehicle protection products, an efficient, digital trade-in/sale transaction, and a vision to provide high-value support services during car ownership.

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SHIFT IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.