Senior Software Engineer
Cox AutomotiveBase Salary
$151k - $174k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Management and stakeholders to understand customer and end-user challenges and design viable solutions.
- Recommend process, technology, and interface improvements that increase team effectiveness and reduce technical debt.
- Forecast component capacity requirements and identify system limitations.
- Provide input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning.
- Contribute to product and solution designs addressing critical issues and complex problems.
- Build software applications across multiple platforms.
- Write software and automated tests aligned with technical standards.
- Troubleshoot and investigate issues and provide ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance for deployed products.
- Provide technical guidance and oversight to less-experienced software engineers.
- Participate in the engineering community and share knowledge of software technologies and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and four years of experience designing, coding, testing, correcting, and documenting programs and scripts.
- Alternatively, a master's or foreign equivalent degree with two years of qualifying experience, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree with qualifying experience or graduate-level coursework.
- Four years of experience designing, developing, and implementing highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems.
- Experience or graduate-level coursework ensuring adherence to technical strategies, policies, standards, or practices.
- Experience conducting reviews of personal work and leading reviews of colleagues' work.
- Experience establishing standards and procedures across the technology service lifecycle, including systems integration and testing.
- Experience managing application enhancements to improve business performance.
- Experience creating applications from conception and design through implementation and support.
- Experience managing web-hosted applications using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience analyzing data and working with SQL and relational databases.
- Experience with Agile application development practices.
Benefits
- Base salary of $151,439-$174,387, with possible additional incentive compensation.
- Flexible paid vacation based on duties, company needs, and obligations.
- Seven paid holidays annually.
- Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually for the employee or family members.
- Additional paid leave for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military leave, and parental leave.
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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.