Software Engineer II

Company

Cox Automotive

• USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Software Engineer II

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid

• Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $85,500.00 - $128,300.00. 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.

Job Description

Cox Automotive is seeking a Software Engineer II to join our Marketing engineering 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 in which everyone is approachable, ideas are judged on their merits, and healthy, empowered people drive transformative technology.

Job Summary:

As a Software Engineer II, you'll work on our Automotive Marketing Platform (AMP) product that is changing the way dealers are marketing to customers through email, CRM tasks, text messaging, direct mail, and Facebook with more channels to come. Our applications are written in .NetCore and AWS. We use New Relic, Splunk, and PagerDuty to monitor and alert on our platform.

We own and are responsible for our applications from design, development, testing, deployment, and support. Our infrastructure is a mix of on-prem and AWS, and we manage it using Terraform. We use CI/CD best practices to develop, test, and deploy our applications. We use a wide variety of AWS services, including but not limited to Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Container Service, Lambdas, SQS, Dynamo DB, Terraform, and RDS to process a large volume of data, work with products and architects to learn, and apply those learnings to future product and technical development. Our engineering organization supports addressing technical debt. In addition to working with product owners to prioritize and fix defects as necessary, we reserve one sprint a quarter to work on things that are bugging us. This can include but is not limited to cleaning up noisy alerts, automating manual processes, and revisiting code if we think there's a better way to do it using the tools we have available. We have an annual Hackathon with winners going on to compete at a higher level within our parent company. We have time reserved on the calendar annually to learn more about both internal and external products. If you want to work on highly performant software running at scale in the cloud, with the ability to both learn new technologies and have an impact on our ability to succeed as a team, organization, and company, this job is for you.

Technologies:

.NetCore, C#, SQL, AWS (including but not limited to Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Container Service, Lambdas, SQS, Dynamo DB, Terraform, and RDS), Typescript, Snowflake, dbt, NewRelic, Splunk, K6, SpecFlow, GitHub, Octopus, Resharper

Your Role:

• Develop marketing solutions for expanding our Automotive Marketing Platform

• Design, build, and support cloud-native applications that serve our digital marketing stakeholders

• Work with senior-level engineers on the team to implement patterns for our organization that deliver our software products at scale with observability, performance, and security

• Mentor junior-level engineers on best practices and standards

• Design and build service-oriented architecture solutions, constructing and managing services published to both internal and external consumers, and integrating with complex database and third-party components

• Engage with your agile delivery team to build a culture of passion, trust, and creativity

• Learn and leverage the automotive digital marketing domain to change the way the world buys, sells, and uses cars

Required Experience:

• BA/BS degree in a related discipline and 2 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a Master's degree and up to 2 years' experience; or 14 years' experience in a related field.

• 2+ years of multi-threaded server-side web application development experience

• Experience implementing applications with highly optimized and scalable architectures with an emphasis on .NetCore and AWS technologies

• Object-oriented design experience including applied use of design patterns

• Familiar with DevOps systems engineering experience such as performance troubleshooting, infrastructure as code, and building deployment pipelines

• 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 with software test engineers to build the best solution for the customer

• Database development skills including an understanding of database technologies and logical and physical data modeling

• Knowledge of agile development methodologies desired

• Knowledge of digital marketing is a plus

Drug Testing

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.

Benefits

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.

About Us

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.