At Edmunds we’re driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60’s, the company has been in the business of trust, innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first Internet site in 1994, we established a leadership position online and have never looked back. Now, as one of the most trusted review sites on the Internet, almost 20 million visitors use our research, shopping and buying tools every month to make an easy and informed decision on their next car. For consumers, we bring peace of mind. For dealers, we make tools to help them solve their problems and sell more cars. How do we do it, you ask? The key ingredients are our enthusiastic employees, progressive company culture and cutting-edge technology. Want to join the team? Read on to find out how!What You’re Applying For:The Technology Team at Edmunds.com is leading the field in implementing the next generation of technology and processes that online publishers will use to operate dynamic, large-scale, high-traffic web operations. Every Technologist at Edmunds actively contributes in a highly collaborative, team-based setting which involves Edmunds’ adopted methodologies of Agile, Design Thinking, Lean Development and DevOps.As a Software Engineer, you’ll be a forward-thinking team player ensuring Edmunds’ technical systems work optimally and deliver their intended value. If they don’t, you’ll be an active participant or leader in finding a solution that does. This is your chance to make a real difference and contribute to an organization committed to the true spirit of team-based collaboration. It’s an open landscape to create solutions!What You’ll Do:
* Determine user requirements and specifications and plan for software development within the broader organizational scope. Software development includes end-user, system level, and data management applications.
* Quickly get up to speed and understand our technology stack; includes having a hands-on understanding of technologies such as AWS, CloudStack and Chef
* Implement software solutions that adhere to best practices and design
* Assist in planning and coordinating the maintenance of enterprise solutions including debugging and updating to keep pace with the evolving environment.
* Understand our continuous delivery pipeline and help develop tools that ensure the rapid, safe and high-quality delivery of features that are automatically promoted in the pre-production pipeline to the production farm What our Technology stack looks like (you’ll be using all of these):
* XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, REST web services, Apache, Python, Tomcat, Java, Ruby, Bash, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, ActiveMQ
* AppDynamics, Akamai, ElasticSearch, Zabbix, Catchpoint, AWS, Docker, KVM, Xen, Hadoop Working @ Edmunds.com:Employees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we’ve been recognized as one of the best places to work by the LA Business Journal (for the last 5 years!), Wall Street Journal, Business Week Magazine and Architectural Record. If you’re interested in learning more and joining our mission, we’d love to hear from you!A Few Of The Perks:· Results Only Work Environment (ROWE): we celebrate results, not hours worked; you’re empowered to manage your schedule in order to integrate work and life so that neither gets neglected· Flexible Time Away From Work: no more counting your vacation days! You can take what you need – as long as your work gets done.· Trip Ca$h: paid paid vacation! Edmunds will give you $500 towards your next vacation.

Desired Skills and Experience

What You Need: * Software development knowledge and experience with web application development and web-based client/server applications.
* Knowledge of Linux operating system including bash scripting, IP network technologies and DNS.
* Knowledge of Java programming language (additional knowledge of other programming languages desirable, e.g. Python, Ruby, Node.js, etc.)
* Excellent problem solving skills are a must!
* Thrive on keeping up with rapidly changing technology stack and processes
* Great at working with all levels across the engineering team