Join Team CARFAX as a Senior Software Engineer - Team Lead Isn't it time you bragged about where you work? At CARFAX, we do, every day. We pride ourselves on being mission-focused on helping to grow a brand built on accuracy and integrity. We care deeply about our products and our customers. We’re more than just a company: We help millions of consumers make more-informed decisions every day. We know that our teammates are our most valuable asset, and we value a balanced life while tackling challenging projects in a fast-paced environment.
What makes our Tech Culture Amazing?
We’re passionate about having a creative and innovative environment where our developers collaborate and continuously learn and grow. Our developers have the freedom to bring new tools, frameworks, and ideas to the table knowing their voice will be heard. We’re not afraid of trying new things; if the case is made for a new technology or approach, our developers know it will be tried. Within CARFAX, we value Teamwork. Our development teams work hand in hand with product owners, project leaders, UX designers and Quality Assurance engineers to produce the best products and solutions possible. If you’re a techie who enjoys constantly learning new things, collaborating with teammates, and building best-in-class products and services, you’ll find exciting opportunities at CARFAX!
As a Senior Software Engineer – Team Lead, you will be part of the Core Product Solutions (CORE) Identity Team. The CORE Identity Team is an elite group of tech savvy individuals who work together every day to deliver customer facing authentication solutions. This team is responsible for making logging in and signing up at CARFAX a secure, consistent, and high-quality experience for CARFAX customers. This includes managing and customizing third party authentication solutions while also building and maintaining custom authentication solutions to provide our customers with a great experience that fits our needs!
This role has an expectation of 2 days in the London, ON office per week, subject to change based on future business needs.
A typical day will have you:
- Working in a dynamic, agile, team environment supporting high-use, modern applications
- Coding and testing enhancements for our authentication systems
- Mentor team members by offering regular feedback on code, team performance and growth opportunities.
- Lead design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping
- Helping to support other teams to integrate with our authentication solutions
- Working with customer support to resolve authentication issues. Participating in daily huddles and other Scrum ceremonies
- Collaborating closely with other developers, UX designers, support teams and other stakeholders
- Promoting great software design and quality through a disciplined development methodology
Augmenting and adjusting team processes and practices to continuously improve.
Required Experience:
- Ability to provide leadership and mentor engineers through complicated technical challenges
- Give team members opportunities to grow by delegating tasks and not being a “superhero”
- Give team members feedback and coaching on technical skill gaps necessary for growth
- Ability to work and collaborate effectively in a team environment as well as independently
- Experience with OAuth2.0, OIDC, or other modern authentication frameworks and conventions
- Experience with modern front-end JavaScript libraries (such as ReactJS, Vue, or Angular)
- Experience with JavaScript, NodeJS, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Object oriented experience with languages such as Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Golang, Python or C#; we primarily use TypeScript and Java
- Knowledge with client/server architecture and building web services using REST or GraphQL
- Knowledge of coding best practices for security and performance
- Relational and NoSQL database systems such as MySQL, Mongo, DynamoDB or Elasticsearch
- Experience with developing in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
- Experience in full SDLC development including design, building, testing, deployment, upgrade, and support.
- Love to learn! To get the greatest solutions we need to continually explore what’s new and be willing to dive in and learn.
Preferred Experience:
- Continuous Integration / Delivery
- Experience with Authentication / Authorization systems.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Experience with SEO and/or mobile development.
- Built large-scale, common applications or services that enrich multiple products.
- Supported applications in multiple markets (i.e., Canada) and/or languages.
- Agile software development including Test Driven Development and Pair Programming
What’s in it for you: - Competitive compensation, benefits and generous time-off policies
- 4-Day summer work weeks and a winter holiday break
- 401(k) / DCPP matching
- Annual bonus program
- Casual, dog-friendly, and innovative office spaces
Don’t just take our word for it: - 10X Virginia Business Best Places to Work
- 9X Washingtonian Great Places to Work
- 9X Washington Post Top Workplace
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Places to Work
About CARFAX
CARFAX, part of S&P Global Mobility, helps millions of people every day confidently shop, buy, service and sell used cars with innovative solutions powered by CARFAX vehicle history information. The expert in vehicle history since 1984, CARFAX provides exclusive services like CARFAX Used Car Listings, CARFAX Car Care, CARFAX History-Based Value and the flagship CARFAX® Vehicle History Report™ to consumers and the automotive industry. CARFAX owns the world’s largest vehicle history database and is nationally recognized as a top workplace by The Washington Post and Glassdoor.com. Shop, Buy, Service, Sell – Show me the CARFAX™. S&P Global Mobility is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets.
CARFAX is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of CARFAX to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of race, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, disability or handicap, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, CARFAX will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. We maintain a drug-free workplace. We are a participant in E-Verify.