Dealer Inspire, a CARS Inc. company, is hiring for our METAL Team!

METAL is Dealer Inspire's (DI) brand-new Inventory Management System (IMS).  It is built with modern design, plus lightning-quick controls, to help our clients move metal faster than the competition - without any training needed. Designed mobile and tablet-first, METAL allows car dealers to quickly and easily manipulate their vehicle inventory and have those changes appear on their Dealer Inspire website in real-time with API synchronization. From easy-to-implement pricing rules, to the ability to upload hi-res inventory pictures, METAL offers a full-suite of features that Senor inventory management.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):


* Architecture and development of new features; 

* Improve performance; Modify existing code to fix errors and bugs; 

* Set and enforce code quality standards and test coverage;

* Mentoring of junior developers.




Required Skills & Experience: 


* 3+ years of professional experience with front-end technologies; including React, Redux, Webpack.

* Mastery of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS/SASS/StyledComponents.

* 3+ years of professional experience working with NodeJS; including the Express framework. 

* 5+ years of professional experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases; the ability to write efficient queries and benchmark/profile them.

* Strong understanding of asynchronous programming.

* Experience with performance debugging and benchmarking.

* Experience with testing frameworks, such as karma, mocha, or jest.

* Experience with Git version control.

* Understanding of CI/CD.

* Strong attention to design detail (UI/UX).

* Strong verbal & written communication skills.

* Strong documentation skills.

* Experience working remotely & as part of a distributed engineering team.




Highly Desired:


* Mobile-first, responsive web design.

* AWS Cloud Architecture and Serverless (Fargate, StepFunctions, Lambda, SQS).

* GraphQL, DataLoader, and Apollo Client.

* PostgreSQL.

* ElasticSearch.