Senior Software Engineer at Cox in Austin, Texas

Job Description:

Primary Location: 10415 Morado Cir, Austin, TX, US

Division: Cox Automotive

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Travel: No

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Requisition Number: 210931

Engineering

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Cox Automotive is adding an experienced (C#.NET core) Senior Software Engineer to our Inventory Management Solutions (IMS) product portfolio group in Austin, TX.

Who We Are + What We Do

At Cox Automotive, we offer the chance to take an important role in the digital revolution of the automotive industry. Our software engineers are part of an energetic team that builds world-class solutions to benefit the auto buying public, dealers, and manufacturers. At Cox Automotive, you'll be immersed in an environment that values your teamwork and creative problem-solving techniques while encouraging you to continue to learn new skills and technologies.

Risk-taking is encouraged here and we reward great results. Collaboration and support are woven into the fabric of everything we do; from 24-hour Hackathons and brain-storming sessions to sprint reviews, you'll be immersed in an environment that encourages bringing fresh ideas to the table with an innovative mindset.

Giving back to the community is important at Cox Automotive. You will be given time during working hours to volunteer at local charities.

Job Overview

Our Software Engineers are energetic influencers who thrive on designing simple and scalable solutions to complex problems and delivering leading-edge software products for our customers. We are looking for exceptionally ambitious and communicative hands-on individuals who are comfortable collaborating within the Agile methodology as part of a cross-functional team, have experience working in fast-paced environments, and who have the passion and skills to take our product offerings to the next level.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader in a collaborative team environment that encourages you to perform at your best, while contributing to the engineering efforts of one of our scrum teams. You will be challenged to engineer right-sized solutions for complex business problems. You will apply your knowledge of modern software design, best practices, design patterns, and frameworks, with an understanding of application performance and maintainability. You will aspire to use new technologies and challenge yourself to develop innovative solutions. You will work alongside developers and technical leads on a team where collaborative programming and mentoring are regularly practiced.

Your Role

• Being a passionate and flexible engineer, collaborate with your team to achieve and exceed the goal to build, deploy, monitor and manage a highly performing and highly available production system


• Influence technical solutions while coaching newer or less experienced members on your Scrum team


• Construct and manage services published to both internal and external consumers


• Implement platform-level components including event architectures, messaging, and caching solutions


• Write readable, maintainable, and efficient code


• Design and implementation of REST APIs, services, system tasks, and cloud solutions


• Enhance the performance and reliability of our current solutions


• Collaborate with team members on best practices, code reviews, internal tools, and process improvements


• Evangelize new ideas within your team as well as across teams


• Explore open source or industry-standard solutions that could be a fit for the organization

Technologies we use

• .NET Core, C#, and ASP.NET


• Front End
  
  
  
  • Web Components, React, NodeJS, Redux, Jest, Ext JS
  
  
  
  


• Database
  
  
  
  • DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Oracle
  
  
  
  


• AWS


• Cloud infrastructure


• ECS Fargate, EKS Fargate


• Lambda


• RDS


• Aurora


• S3


• Terraform, Cake Build, Kubernetes


• EC2


• SQS/SNS


• VPC


• API Gateway


• Code Build


• Code Pipeline


• CloudWatch

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience


• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of education)


• Object-oriented design experience


• Strong C#.NET skills, including:
  
  
  
  • Extensive knowledge of the .NET technology platforms
  
  
  • Applied use of design patterns and REST
  
  
  • MVC technologies such as AngularJS or ReactJS
  
  
  
  


• Experience in realizing applications from conception and design, to implementation and support


• Experience designing and implementing applications with highly optimized and scalable architectures

Nice to Have

• Experience delivering software in cloud-based systems


• Advanced technical training


• Strong understanding of industry development, deployment processes and agile development methodologies


• Knowledge of session management, object relational mapping


• Advanced degree in Computer Engineering/Science or related field

What We Look For

• Ability to work on multiple projects and be flexible to adapt to changing requirements


• Ability to turn high-level requirements into a working system through iterative development


• Proven ability to work collaboratively and independently to design, develop and deploy solutions


• High energy, confident, ambitious, and self-motivated individual


• Must be an effective communicator


• Engages and mentors other Software Engineers


• Embrace and learn new technologies

Learn more about Cox Automotive

• Location and 360 walkthrough - http://bit.ly/1UctesS
  


• Make Your Mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqiRFkkglV0
  


• We Are Cox Automotive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHb5koSO14E
  


• The Connected Cox Automotive Story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOCvFnzrOys
  


• Transforming the Auto Industry - https://tinyurl.com/yy25uk4j
  


• Cox Conserves - htts://tinyurl.com/y5ezc6ecp
  


• Explore Tech Careers @ Cox Automotive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_mn36o2NLI
  


• From the SVP of Product & Engineering - https://tinyurl.com/yajqusgf
  

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.

About Cox

We are the Cox family of businesses. We've been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us. Our primary divisions - Cox Communications and Cox Automotive - are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators. We're also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation. We're looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you'll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

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.

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