Senior Software Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior Software Engineer at Carvana's Tempe HQ, building and scaling the e-commerce, logistics, and AI-driven systems behind the online used-car platform.
What you’ll do
- Drive complex, large-scale projects with cross-functional impact
- Develop loosely coupled, scalable, testable, and reusable solutions
- Work with Kafka for real-time data streaming and Kubernetes for deployment automation
- Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field
- 6+ years software development experience in C#/.NET Core (GraphQL, RESTful Web API) and Azure, OR JavaScript/TypeScript (ES2015+), React Hooks, Next.js
- Strong fundamentals in writing effective unit tests
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting web applications, API integration, and infrastructure
Technologies
C# · .NET Core · GraphQL · RESTful Web API · Azure · JavaScript · TypeScript · React Hooks · Next.js · Kafka · Kubernetes · SQL
About Carvana
Online used-car platform letting consumers shop, finance, trade in, and receive vehicles through integrated reconditioning, logistics, and wholesale-auction infrastructure.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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,
More from the job description
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 “Growing a capital and labor intensive, industrial type asset at a 40% clip is unchartered territory…” – JP Morgan Chase, Analyst Report, Jan 2026 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-serv [... source excerpt omitted ...] ication 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 Drive complex, large-scale 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 with cloud systems, pipelines, and resources Perform data storage and persistence containers querying using SQL, NoSQL, and caching technologies Work in a team environment using Agile methodologies Work wi [... source excerpt omitted ...] ting effective unit tests Experience in debugging and troubleshooting web applications, API integration, and infrastructure Maintain a strong focus on both internal and external customers, empathizing with their challenges and understanding their journey through our product Effective communication and collaboration skills - Carvana developers work very closely with diverse teams requiring great interpersonal skills and a positive attitude Persists in the face of challenges, demonstrating professionalism, determination, and resilience It would be great if you also had Experience using any cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, RedHat, etc.) Experience with CosmosDB or other NoSQL
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