Software Engineer

About the role

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-lead and as ambitious as ever. In 2024, we have 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 ecommerce 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 CARMEL (Monday through Friday)

About the team and position

Do you have a natural curiosity to build new technologies? Are you the type of person who taught yourself a new C# or JavaScript library just for fun? If so, join a dynamic team of engineers aimed at bringing the latest in web application development to a whole new way of buying a car. We are a fast-paced team that is focused on performance, scalability, and reliability to provide the best experience to our customers, both internal and external.

What you’ll be doing

- Contribute to med-large size projects with cross-functional impact

- Develop loosely coupled solutions that are scalable, testable, modularized, and reusable

- Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code that adheres to best practices

- Work in an AI forward development environment, integrating AI at all stages of the SDLC