Sr. Software Engineer, Vehicle Pricing, Digital Experience

As a Senior Software Engineer on Tesla’s Digital Experience team, you will lead the development and enhancement of vehicle pricing applications that power our Sales, Fleet Management, and Finance organizations. You will collaborate with the core pricing team to define rules, implement sophisticated pricing algorithms, and automate the application of pricing to new and used vehicle inventory across retail and wholesale sales channels. This role supports Tesla’s global product catalog and configuration for vehicles, ensuring dynamic pricing strategies that adapt to market demands in every region. Join a fast-paced, innovative environment where your work directly accelerates our mission to transition the world to sustainable energy by optimizing pricing for maximum accessibility and profitability. What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable vehicle pricing applications that integrate with Sales, Fleet Management, and Finance systems, enabling automated rule-setting, algorithm-driven pricing, and real-time application to new and used inventory for retail and wholesale channels
• Architect and manage advanced pricing models and algorithms to handle price recommendations, discounts, sales programs, demand-based adjustments, and inventory-specific optimizations
• Develop intelligent workflows leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI to enhance decision-making, automate pricing planning, and streamline cross-organizational approvals
• Build robust data analytics pipelines to ingest and analyze vehicle inventory data, sales trends, costs, and competitor pricing, powering recommendation engines for strategic pricing decisions
• Write high-quality, clean, maintainable, performant, and well-tested code, with a focus on senior-level ownership including code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentoring junior engineers
• Create comprehensive unit and integration tests, partner with QA teams to ensure regression testing for new features, and drive quality assurance best practices
• Monitor production system metrics, respond to alerts proactively, and lead troubleshooting efforts for live issues impacting pricing accuracy or performance
• Analyze existing vehicle pricing systems for technical gaps, propose and implement improvements to enhance scalability, reliability, and integration with downstream sales channels
• Communicate project updates, includingchanges in estimates, dependencies, and blockers, to stakeholders across Sales, Fleet Management, Finance, and engineering teams with clarity and timeliness
• Utilize modern technologies such as React, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, MySQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Redis, GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes to deliver resilient, cloud-native systems that scale with Tesla’s growing inventory and global operations

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, proof of exceptional skills in related field, or equivalent experience
• 4 years of related practical experience in software engineering, with a proven track record in full stack development
• Experience writing code in programming languages like JavaScript, Python, Go or C#
• 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
• Familiarity with AI integration, including LLMs for tasks like generating pricing insights and agentic AI workflows for adaptive user experiences
• Experience with JavaScript (ES5/6), HTML, CSS, and the React framework for building intuitive frontend interfaces
• Experience in the automotive, energy, or ride-hailing industries preferred

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 $168,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits