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Disability insurance gym membership health insurance paid time off parental leave tuition reimbursement
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About us:
At cars.com, we help shoppers meet their perfect car match, and people find their perfect career matchAs one of the top places to work in chicago, according to the chicago tribune, built-in chicago and others, we pride ourselves on a culture of growth and innovation.
Cars.com has revolutionized the automotive industry for both shoppers and sellers through technology and solutions for buyers and sellers alikeWe never shy away from a challenge, move fast, collaborate across functions to approach problems from every angleWe`ve built a culture that`s second-to-none and share core values that keep everyone working full-speed at the same goals with the same open, outcome-driven and bold attitudes.
Cars.com is a cars brandCars includes the following brands: cars.com, dealer inspire, dealerrater, fuel, creditiq & accu-tradeLearn more here!
About the position:
Vehicle inventory is the foundation of our dealer inspire website platform and powers the data for all our productsThis position is for our inventory support team, which handles escalations from our customer support teams that may involve more triage, debugging and problem solvingIdentifying classes of issues and creating broad solutions for customers are encouraged, and the team works closely with the core inventory services team to identify, plan and build solutions to gaps or opportunities identified through customer feedback.
Essential duties & responsibilities (including, not but limited to)
Work with all members of support to prioritize and complete dealer issues or updates in a timely manner.
Become familiar and knowledgeable about the end-to-end delivery of vehicle data to our website platform.
Demonstrate the initiative and method for solving different problems and propose effective solutions for those problems.
Support and maintain legacy features.
Debug and problem solve for any issues coming through inventory feeds.
These items are a bedrock set of skills to step into a software engineer role on the inventory support team.
Experience with php
Experience with object-oriented languages
Experience working with relational databases such as mysql, postgres, etc.
Experience working with git or other modern source control
Understanding of web application development
Strong debugging and critical thinking skills to diagnose support issues
Task-oriented, with an ability to prioritize
Strong written communication skills
Highly desired
Do you see yourself in any of these? these are all elements of the position that we can teach you, but if you`re familiar with any of them so much the better!
Experience working with laravel or wordpress
Experience with front-end technologies like html5, sass, and javascript
Experience with job queues and background php processes
Understanding of rest apis
Ability to surface technical debt issues and develop a plan for resolution.
Experience working remotely & as part of a distributed engineering team.
Benefits & perks*:
18 days of paid time off, plus select paid holidays
Paid volunteer day & paid pet wellness day
Robust health insurance options: bcbs, delta dental, eyemed
Subsidized internet access for your home
Subsidized gym membership
Peer-to-peer bonus program
Parental leave
Life & disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Not a complete, detailed listBenefits have terms and requirements before employees are eligible.
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our companyWe do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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