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, millions of 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: Edmunds is looking for a mid level software engineer to transform the way people buy cars. Buying a car can be a daunting process through which consumers begrudgingly go every five to six years. At Edmunds, we build tools to allow consumers to shop online and connect with dealers. You will work with a cross-functional team to create products that take the stress out of car buying. What You’ll Do: - Help customers complete more of the automotive transaction online by building deeper integrations with forward-looking dealers. - Assure shoppers that they are getting a good deal by revamping the way we present pricing on our website. - Streamline the way customers reach out to dealers through our platform by optimizing the performance of those pages. - Research and evangelize modern Javascript best practices and client-side application design. - Coordinate the development of front-end features from technical design to production deployment. - Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other software engineers. What You Need: - Demonstrated ability to see projects to completion - Experience in building, unit testing, documenting, and refactoring client-side applications - Familiarity with testing strategies, cross-browser compatibility, and client-side performance optimization - Experience with Node.js is a plus - Experience with React and isomorphic Javascript is a plus - Experience designing and building APIs using REST, GraphQL, or gRPC is a plus - Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus - Experience architecting multi-tier systems is a plus - Experience designing data storage schemas is a plus - Experience with RESTful microservices, GraphQL and serverless systems. Why You Would Want This Job: - You love building intuitive and elegant user interfaces. - You want to make a real impact on the way people buy cars. - You appreciate working with talented people in a variety of roles including software engineering, product management, and design The compensation range for this position is $125,000 - $159,000 per year. The base pay will take into account internal equity as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. In addition, Edmunds offers full-time employees a comprehensive total rewards package including the benefits listed below. Edmunds Perks: - Flexible time off - 13 Paid Holidays - Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability) - Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions) - 401K Plan with company matching at 100%, up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting - Stock purchase program - CarMax vehicle discount - Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave - HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them - 2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes - FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees - Well-being sessions - Employee Recognition Program - On-going career development opportunities - Pet insurance - Sabbatical leave - Education Reimbursement - Pre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses Working @ Edmunds.com: Employees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by Fortune Magazine, Great Places to Work, LA Business Journal, Newsweek, Computerworld, Built in LA, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week Magazine, and Architectural Record. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology, for Diversity and Asian Americans, and as a Newsweek Most Loved Workplace for LGBTQ+ employees. If you’re interested in learning more and joining our mission, we’d love to hear from you! Edmunds will consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws. #LI-Remote

• Maintenance and Modernization: Perform maintenance and modernization of web services (REST/SOAP), ensuring the stability of both legacy systems and new .NET implementations. • Architecture and Design: Design the technical structure of new features, defining API contracts (Swagger/OpenAPI) and efficient data models that ensure scalability and a system-wide view of the business. • Quality Culture: Implement and maintain unit and integration tests, ensuring code coverage and preventing regressions. • Full-cycle Development: Work across the full development lifecycle, from specialized technical support to implementing continuous improvements and resolving complex bugs. • Mentoring and Standardization: Contribute to the dissemination of best practices (Clean Code, SOLID, and Design Patterns) and actively participate in code reviews.

Role Description We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer (Search / Retrieval) to join our growing team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of intelligent search systems that leverage machine learning at their core. You’ll be responsible for building end-to-end retrieval pipelines that incorporate advanced techniques in query understanding, ranking, and entity recognition. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in information retrieval and search relevance with hands-on experience applying machine learning to real-world search problems at scale. You will also be responsible to: - Lead the development of advanced search clusters that can scale to millions of documents across customers and data sources. - Deploy learning-to-rank models that optimize relevance using behavioral signals, embeddings, and structured feedback. - Build and scale robust Entity Recognition pipelines that enhance document understanding, enable contextual disambiguation, and support entity-aware retrieval. - Architect next-gen search infrastructure capable of supporting highly dynamic document corpora and real-time indexing. - Drive improvements in query construction, indexing, and search performance. - Be up-to-date with the latest improvements in search and indexing technologies. - Collaborate with product and applied research teams to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations. - Produce clean, scalable code and influence system architecture and roadmap across the relevance and platform stack. Qualifications - Bachelors/Masters/PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science, or another quantitative field. - 7+ years of backend engineering experience with 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields. - Strong proficiency in Python. - Hands-on experience with search engines (Opensearch or Elasticsearch). - Strong understanding of information retrieval concepts spanning traditional methods (TF-IDF, BM25) and modern neural search techniques (vector embeddings, transformer models). - Experience with text processing, NLP, and relevance tuning. - Experience with relevance evaluation metrics (NDCG, MRR, MAP). - Experience with large-scale distributed systems. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Requirements - Strong communication abilities to explain technical concepts. - Collaborative mindset for cross-functional teamwork. - Detail-oriented with strong focus on quality. - Self-motivated and able to work independently. - Passion for solving complex search problems.

Title: Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (UK) Location: Remote - UK Type: Full-time Workplace: remote Category: Product Engineering Job Description: Who We Are At Firstup, our mission is to improve the employee experience at every moment that matters, large and small. As the communication pipeline for the world's workforce, we now serve 40 of the Fortune 100 companies, reaching and connecting more than 17 million employees daily. Our employees are experts in the employee experience, workforce communications and technology. Joining Firstup means joining a movement to make work better for every worker. As the world’s first intelligent communication platform, Firstup meaningfully engages employees at every moment from hire to retire, and delivers engagement insights to help companies support, promote and retain their talent. Our movement has taken root and is evident in our world-class customer base. Now we need your help. Ready to make a difference in the world? Job Summary The Sr. Software Engineer will join the team responsible for Firstup's public APIs, Agentic tools, third-party integrations with enterprise systems such as HRIS platforms, and shared platform services. You will deliver innovative, scalable solutions while constantly improving our approach to architecture, scale, availability, and fault-tolerance. You are an active user of Generative AI tools and coding agents, applying them daily to accelerate delivery and improve code quality. Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain public-facing APIs and Agentic tools that enable enterprise customers to integrate with and extend the Firstup platform. - Develop and own integrations with external enterprise systems, including HRIS platforms such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, and Dayforce. - Build and maintain shared platform services used across the wider engineering organisation. - Write high-quality code (reliable, readable, efficient, testable, scalable, maintainable), provide thorough code reviews, and create comprehensive tests and documentation. - Apply broad, in-depth knowledge to develop and maintain large-scale multi-tenant services in the cloud. - Actively use Generative AI tools and coding agents in day-to-day workflows to improve code quality and accelerate delivery. - Collaborate across teams on industry standards and best practices to help others solve complex problems. - Design future-ready solutions and address architectural gaps using modern microservices and cloud-native patterns. - Own production health for your services, contributing to on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews in a "you build it, you run it" environment. - Identify, analyse, and resolve system availability, reliability, and performance issues, contributing to observability and resiliency improvements. - Partner with Product Management and Design to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience. - 5+ years building reliable, performant applications and microservices. - Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js. Ruby experience is a plus. - Proven full-stack experience across frontend (React.js), backend, and database layers. - Technical depth in at least one specialisation: networking, security, serverless, event streams, or similar. - Strong AWS experience, including compute, storage, networking, and monitoring. - Excitement to build beautiful, intuitive products with a strong customer focus. - Innate curiosity and a desire to learn and teach. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building and maintaining integrations with HRIS platforms such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, or similar enterprise HR systems. - Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm. - Experience with Datadog or similar observability and monitoring platforms. - Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools or coding agents in development workflows. - Experience in enterprise SaaS organisations, particularly HR Tech or regulated domains. - Familiarity with ML/AI integration in production systems. - Open-source contributions or a history of side projects. Why Firstup? Because you care - about people, the work you do, and the connections you make. Work is such a large part of life; it only makes sense to make it awesome. If you want to engage brilliant minds in a high-growth and inclusive environment where ideas are rewarded regardless of who they come from, join us. This is a rapidly changing space so if you thrive on ambiguity, are hungry for a challenge, and have the guts to speak your mind, you could be a perfect fit. We offer an excellent PTO program, great health benefits, a casual and friendly environment, remote work, and a leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally. Firstup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state or local laws. #LI-TM1 #LI-Remote