Lead Software Engineer
Cox Enterprises, Inc.23 hours ago
Atlanta, GA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own milestone- and epic-level solution discovery and produce implementation-ready technical specifications for value-stream delivery teams.
- Define technical standards, reference implementations, architectural intent, and integration contracts across product architectures.
- Partner with architects, peer release-train engineers, Product, Engineering, and SRE to align technical direction and resolve cross-team decisions.
- Identify architectural drift, technical debt, capability gaps, risks, and constraints, and lead remediation and mitigation efforts.
- Drive adoption of spec-driven development and embed architectural guardrails into AI coding agent configurations and workflows.
- Serve as a technical partner to the incident commander during production incidents, accelerating diagnosis and remediation.
- Evaluate emerging engineering technologies and mentor delivery teams through hands-on adoption and structured knowledge transfer.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of related experience, or alternative combinations including a master’s degree with 4 years, a Ph.D. with 1 year, or 18 years of related experience.
- Hands-on full-stack development experience with StencilJS and C#, plus experience designing and delivering distributed software systems.
- Experience with API design, integration patterns, and cloud-native architectures using AWS or an equivalent platform.
- Experience leading technical solution discovery for complex initiatives and producing specifications and architectural artifacts for other engineers.
- Experience with spec-driven development, Agile practices at scale, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Ability to drive technical decisions across organizational boundaries without formal authority and to guide maintainable, scalable, and resilient implementation patterns.
- Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude, Copilot, or equivalent, including defining architectural guardrails within agent configurations, constitutions, or briefings.
- Ability to stay current with software-engineering tooling, architectural patterns, and emerging methodologies and drive measurable improvements in delivery and engineering productivity.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with the ability to work remotely part of the week.
- Flexible paid vacation consistent with job 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.
Tech Stack
AWSC#
Categories
About Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Cox Enterprises is a privately held, Atlanta-based company operating businesses in broadband and automotive services. Through Cox Communications, it provides internet, voice, and video to residential and business customers; through Cox Automotive, it runs marketplaces and dealer software including Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, and Manheim. Founded in 1898, the family-owned company also invests in sustainable technologies and other growth ventures.