Company

Cox Automotive - USAEngineering / Product DevelopmentSr Software EngineerIndividual ContributorHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the weekNoDay

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $106,800.00 - $178,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on our Data Services team's back-end application that processes automotive data at scale. Our applications are written in .Net Core, and we have transitioned our legacy workloads to AWS. You will work with stakeholders to understand their needs and design solutions that iteratively meet their needs. You will be part of a team that prioritizes quality and maintainability first. You will set an example for the team on how to invest in personal growth.

As engineers, we are responsible for our applications, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support. We use various AWS services, including but not limited to Elastic Container Service, Lambdas, SQS, Dynamo DB, Step Functions, and RDS. If you want to work on highly performant software running at scale in the cloud, with the ability to learn new technologies and impact our ability to succeed, this job is for you. You will also be responsible for rotating on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team.

Our Teams:

Cox Automotive is the market-leading provider of technology services to the automotive industry. Our engineering organization takes pride in building innovative products that make our customers successful. We are passionate about building great software while having fun doing it. The result is an award-winning culture where everyone is approachable, ideas are judged on merits, and healthy, empowered people drive transformative technology.

Your Role:

• Mentor and develop more junior engineers.
• Accurately estimate work and communicate status to stakeholders, including executives.
• Bring a new perspective to the team – challenge us to improve.
• Monitor and proactively identify opportunities to improve resilience, optimize costs, and increase observability.
• Optimize database access in Oracle, DynamoDB, and others
• Optimize our AWS processes and spend
• Develop data acquisition, cleansing, syndication, and other solutions for expanding our Automotive Marketing Platform
• Design and build service-oriented architecture solutions, constructing and managing services published to internal and external consumers and integrating with complex databases and third-party components.
• Expand our automated test coverage (unit, integration, performance, validation ..etc..)
• Engage with your agile delivery team to build a culture of passion, trust, and creativity.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline and 4 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years’ experience in a related field.
• Experience with cloud-based application development, support, and DevOps.
• Object-oriented design experience, including applied use of design patterns.
• Experience with TDD
• Experience mentoring software engineers.
• Experience implementing automated tests, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Ability to work independently, to design, develop, and deploy solutions, and to deliver projects on time with moderate direction.
• Ability to collaborate with other developers and software test engineers to build the best solution for the customer.
• Database development skills, including data modeling and query tuning
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.