Senior Lead Software Engineer

Cox Automotive is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join our Dealer Marketing Engineering Team. As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer on the Consumer, Brand & Dealer Platform Release Train, you will work in a collaborative agile team environment that encourages you to perform at your best and challenges you to engineer elegant solutions for complex business challenges.

Our Team:

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 in which everyone is approachable, ideas are judged on their merits, and healthy, empowered people drive transformative technology.

Job Summary:

As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer on the Consumer, Brand & Dealer Platform Release Train, you will work in a collaborative agile team environment that encourages you to perform at your best and challenges you to engineer elegant solutions for complex business challenges. You will apply your knowledge of object-oriented design along with engineering best practices, design patterns, and frameworks to deliver real product value. This team will focus on building, Improving, and maintaining the Dealer.com Platform.

Technologies:

Java, Spring, AWS (EMR, ECS, EC2, S3, EKS, Glue, Athena, QuickSight, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Kinesis, Terraform, CloudFront, CloudWatch, RDS), Active MQ, Maven, NewRelic/DataDog/SumoLogic, Cucumber, REST/gRPC, Hibernate, MySQL, GitHub, GitHub Action, TeamCity/Jenkins, Apache Airflow, Camel and event processing modules, Rules Engine, Cache tools

Your Role:

• Design, develop and maintain frameworks for web-based applications to enhance performance and reliability
• Participate in the development of new industry-leading products leveraging common technology
• Design and develop service-oriented architecture solutions that integrating with complex database and third-party components
• Construct and manage services published to both internal and external consumers
• Architect, design and develop platform level components including event architectures, messaging, and caching solutions
• Collaborate on developing best practices, code reviews, internal tools, and process improvements
• Guide, coach, and mentor team members as required, assisting in the team's skills development during software development projects
• Analyze and conceive solutions, and develop prototypes for next generation components to extend platform architecture, solve complex business problems and extend business functionality

Qualifications :

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6years' experience; a Ph.D. and 3years' experience in a related field; or 20years'experience in a related field
• Advanced technical degree and/or related training a plus
• At least 8 years of multi-threaded server-side web application development experience

What We Look For:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work with team members to deliver projects on deadlines.
• Hands-on experience with designing and implementing on AWS is preferred
• Experience with Infrastructure as a code - Serverless (Node.JS, Python), Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
• Proven experience with architecture patterns, design patterns and tradeoffs. (multithreading, database scaling, statelessness, event driven architecture etc)
• Experience with agile methodologies like Kanban (preferred), Scrum, XP, etc. SAFE methodology (a plus)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Passionate technologists with an innovative mindset
• Aptitude for continued growth and development of technical skills/abilities

Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

There's nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

USD 140,600.00 - 234,400.00 per year

About Cox Automotive

At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!

About Cox

Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!

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.

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