Lead Software Engineer
Cox AutomotiveBase Salary
$162k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide project leadership for software design processes serving internal and external consumers.
- Provide technical project management to test engineers and support teams.
- Contribute hands-on software engineering using modern design practices, patterns, and frameworks.
- Build, deploy, monitor, and manage highly available production systems.
- Implement platform components including event architectures, messaging, caching solutions, REST APIs, services, system tasks, and cloud solutions.
- Identify bottlenecks and architectural risks while improving application performance and reliability.
- Influence technical solutions, coach less experienced scrum team members, and communicate key issues and action plans to management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science or a related field plus six years of qualifying experience.
- Alternatively, a master’s degree plus four years of qualifying experience, or a Ph.D. plus one year of qualifying experience.
- Six years of experience developing backend software in Node.js or Python.
- Six years of experience with architecture, design patterns, Angular or React, React web applications, databases including Postgres or AuroraDB, and AWS technologies such as ECS, S3, AuroraDB, RDS, SQS, SNS, or Lambda.
- Six years of experience identifying system bottlenecks and architectural risks.
- Experience may be acquired concurrently.
Benefits
- Flexible paid vacation based on employee duties and company needs.
- Seven paid holidays annually.
- Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually for the employee or family members.
- Additional paid leave may include bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, and parental leave.
- The employee reports to Atlanta, Georgia, but may telecommute from any location in the United States.
About Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider. Fueled by the largest breadth of first- and third-party data fed by 2.3 billion online interactions a year, Cox Automotive tailors leading solutions for car shoppers, auto manufacturers, dealers, lenders and fleets. The company has 29,000+ employees on four continents and a portfolio of industry-leading brands that include Autotrader®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, vAuto®, Dealertrack®, NextGear Capital™, CentralDispatch® and Cox Fleet®. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately owned, Atlanta-based company with $23 billion in annual revenue. Cox Automotive has been included on Glassdoor’s Best Companies in Tech & AI 2026 and Best Place to Work in 2026 lists.