Team Lead, Engineering at Carvana Carmel, IN

Downtown Boulder Partnership; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Wellness program

Job summary

Carvana in Carmel, IN seeks a Team Lead, Engineering to guide the Marketplace team building buyer-focused applications for the new digital auction site. You will hire, mentor, and drive high-velocity engineering practices while partnering with product and design to deliver resilient, scalable software.

You will own architecture, write production code, and elevate the team’s technical capabilities across cloud, microservices, and modern UI stacks in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• BS degree in CS or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience creating scalable, low-latency web apps.
• Experience debugging web services and APIs.
• Experience leading engineers and coaching career growth.
• 4+ years of software engineering with advancing responsibilities.
• Strong .NET/C# experience and UI frameworks like React.

Responsibilities

• Lead the marketplace engineering team to deliver on-time software releases.
• Mentor and grow engineers, setting high technical standards.
• Develop efficient processes to sustain velocity, quality, and ownership.
• Improve resiliency, uptime, and customer-facing metrics.
• Collaborate with product, design, and operations to craft robust solutions.
• Contribute code and own key architectural decisions.
• Own the technical direction and architecture of team-built solutions.

Skills

Team leadership

Software craftsmanship

Unit testing

DevOps practices

Communication

Architectural design

Mentoring/coaching

C#/.NET

JavaScript/Python

Cloud platforms

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

React

GraphQL

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Job description

Team Lead, Engineering – Carvana – Carmel, IN.

About the Team and Position:

Carvana's Marketplace team is at the heart of our mission to change the way people buy cars. We build industry-leading digital marketplaces where wholesale dealers can buy and sell vehicles. This role involves managing the marketplace experience team responsible for building our buyer‑focused applications on our new digital auction website. You’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our marketplace applications and contribute directly to our company's success.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead your team in developing and operating our digital marketplaces while diving deep with external partners to launch new products
• Hire and develop your engineers, helping them learn and achieve their own goals while holding them – and yourself – to high engineering standards
• Develop efficient processes, ensuring the engineering team is operating with high velocity, quality, and ownership
• Focus your team on increasing resiliency and uptime while decreasing the blast radius of software changes and tracking and improving customer‑facing metrics
• Work with our product, design, business, and operations teams to develop resilient solutions while driving impact for our car purchasing experience
• Actively contribute to the delivery of our products by writing and delivering code to production
• Own the technical decisions and architecture of the solutions built by your team

What you should have:

• A comprehensive understanding of software craftsmanship ideals – clean code principles, unit testing fundamentals, design pattern selection and application, architectural pattern selection and application, and DevOps principles
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Experience creating available, scalable, low‑latency, web applications
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting web services, APIs, and libraries
• Experience or desire to lead a team of Engineers and coach them in their career
• At least 4 years of software engineering, with consistently advancing skills and responsibilities
• Extensive experience with .NET and C#
• Experience with at least one functional/scripting language (JavaScript, Python)
• Strong skills with any contemporary UI framework or library, such as React (Preferable), Angular, or VUE
• Experience in building contemporary scalable solutions, supporting high load and availability, understanding caching, sharding, container‑based architecture
• Experience in working with any cloud (AWS, Azure (Preferable), GCP, RedHat, etc.)
• Experience in contemporary code quality practices: writing unit and integration tests, using test coverage, CI/CD, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects, and rapidly changing priorities
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, especially in representing technical expertise to a diverse audience
• Self‑motivated; work well both independently and collaboratively
• A positive attitude and an excellent sense of humor
• Experience in building a microservice architecture
• Experience working with data storages (SQL or NoSQL)
• Experience using CDN to deliver static content
• Experience in CQRS and/or Event Sourcing
• Experience working with GraphQL (Federated Graph would be a bonus)
• Experience working with OIDC protocols and managed AuthN/Z frameworks

Optional Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Monorepos (Nx specifically)
• Experience with Micro Frontends and Module Federation
• Experience working with bidding systems
• Experience with payments and checkout processes
• Experience with AI tools like Copilot to streamline your daily work

What we’ll offer in return:

• Full‑Time Salary Position with a competitive salary
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
• 401(k) with company match
• A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more
• A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally
• Access to opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge with others across the organization
• A company culture of promotions from within, with a start‑up atmosphere allowing for varied and rapid career development

Legal Stuff

Hiring is contingent on passing a complete background check. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Carvana is an equal employment opportunity employer. All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Carvana also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.