Staff Software Engineer, Vehicle Configurator, Digital Experience

What To Expect As a Software Engineer on Tesla’s Digital Product Engineering team, you will be responsible for building vehicle management systems to support Tesla's rapid growth while providing a seamless and intuitive customer experience. You will be part of the core service team at Tesla, which owns order management, product catalog, and pricing management platform to support sales, finance, and operational teams in every global market. This is a fast paced, highly rewarding opportunity to make a direct impact on our mission of transitioning the world to sustainable energy.

What You'll Do- Design, develop, and support applications and systems within the team's scope, including new and used vehicle ordering, configuration inventory management and associated sales, incentives, and fees management platform

• Lead technical efforts to onboard Tesla products into new international markets, ensuring compliance with regional requirements and seamless integration with existing systems

• Design and build AI-powered chatbot solutions to assist users with ordering, payment, and fee-related inquiries, driving self-service adoption and reducing operational support load

• Identify, design, and implement enhancements to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of order processing workflows

• Monitor production systems, analyze real-time metrics, respond to alerts, and proactively address system performance and availability concerns

• Write clean, maintainable, performant, and well-tested code to deliver new features and resolve technical issues

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, and Business teams to plan and prioritize feature development

• Adapt quickly to evolving business priorities and technical requirements in a fast-paced, agile environment

• Work with a modern tech stack including C#, Python, Go, Node.js, React, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Develop workflows that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI to improve decision-making, automate planning, and adapt to vehicle inspection, used car valuation based on competitor prices What You'll Bring- Degree in Computer Science, proof of exceptional skills in related field, or equivalent experience

• 4+ years of related practical experience in software engineering

• Experience with microservices or service-oriented architecture

• Expertise with databases, including MySQL for structured data management and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch for search, indexing, and analytics

• Good unit testing and integration testing practices

• Flexible and motivated self-starter with excellent communication skills with a positive attitude and a strong desire to improve efficiency and scalability

• Experience writing code in programming languages like C#, Go, Python or JavaScript

• Knowledge about JavaScript (ES5/6), HTML, CSS, and the React framework for building intuitive frontend interfaces

• Familiarity with AI integration, including LLMs for tasks like generating pricing insights and agentic AI workflows for adaptive user experiences Benefits Compensation and Benefits Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction

• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits

• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution

• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA

• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits

• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays

• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources

• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance

• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs

• Tesla Babies program

• Commuter benefits

• Employee discounts and perks program Expected Compensation

$200,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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