Senior iOS Engineer

8116 - Midtown Office - 2220 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23220CarMax, the way your career should be!

About this job

At CarMax, we are industry disruptors. At the heart of our innovation is new digital products. Working on many different aspects of the customer experience, our Senior Engineers research and discover new opportunities and shape products to fulfill them.

From inception to completion, you will develop tools and technology, learning quickly from our spirit of experimentation.

You will have a direct impact on improving the performance of our business and ensuring customers can buy the vehicles they want in a way that is right for them!

What you will do Essential responsibilities

• Coordinate with product teams on Omni-Channel solutions delivering the shopper and owner experiences within the native app
• Foster a community of ideation and creativity
• Collaborate with colleagues in product design, product management and systems architecture to develop innovative solutions and bring great ideas to life
• Market your new ideas internally and evolve them according to feedback and critique within an agile environment
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practice to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be
• Deliver Omni-Channel solutions through development efforts
• Maintain CICD pipeline and manage releases
• Resolve support issues
• Mentor Jr. developers
• Participate in on-call rotation

Purpose of the role

It takes a passion for technology to develop ground-breaking products. Working collaboratively and creatively as part of a close-knit product team, you will be part of the development process from end to end : consulting users, carrying out experiments, tackling complex business problems and implementing new products.

You’re able to balance customer needs with business goals and know how to deliver technical solutions that enhance business value.

Creative, curious and highly analytical, you never stop learning and thrive on constant change in the digital marketplace.

Technical Expertise :

• Proven delivery of enterprise-class native apps
• Proven experience leveraging observability to assess and analyze key metrics for continuous improvement of performance, resiliency, and enterprise scalability
• Ability to engage in support and effectively, efficiently, and quickly drive to a successful resolution
• Proven experience leveraging existing software, development of reusable components, and elimination of redundancy in designs
• Understanding of end-to-end system design, from the top to the bottom of the stack
• Ability to learn the ecosystem, including downstream systems, outage impacts, and limitations
• Analyze, recommend and deliver automation within CICD pipeline, code, in partnership with QE resources

Qualifications and requirements

This role requires hands-on design and development in technologies such as iOS, Azure PaaS (Functions, App Services, App Insights, Structured / Unstructured data storage, and others), .

NET Core, SQL, TeamCity or Azure DevOps for CI / CD, load testing / automated testing tools, Splunk, and API management systems.

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years working with iOS native mobile development
• Published apps in App Store
• Strong computer science background
• Experienced in integrated with APIs, persisting data, caching and refreshing
• Commitment to provide quality completed deliverables with well-factored, maintainable code
• Experience with VCS (git, hg)
• Experience as a software developer working with product teams in dual track agile
• Knowledge of programming languages / platforms / frameworks such as Combine, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, C#, .Net Core, Azure DevOps
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• A degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent experience
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with event-based architectures
• Experience in headless commerce development
• Experience building and designing REST-based web services using JSON
• Experience with containerization
• Experience with serverless framework
• Experience with React and React Native

Work Location and Arrangement : This role will be based out of the Richmond, VA CarMax Technology Innovation Center or the Dallas, TX Technology Hub and have a Hybrid work arrangement.

Work Authorization : Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will be considered for this specific role.

About CarMax

CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity experience customers want and deserve.

This innovative thinking around the way cars are bought and sold has helped us become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, with over 200 locations nationwide.

Our amazing team of more than 25,000 associates work together to deliver iconic customer experiences. Along the way, we help every associate grow their career and achieve their best, at work and in their community.

We are recognized for our commitment to training and diversity and are one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion :

CarMax is committed to bringing together people from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe, welcoming, and inclusive work environment.

CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, and any other characteristics protected by law.

Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application.