Lead Software Engineer
Cox AutomotiveResponsibilities
- Own milestone- and epic-level solution discovery and produce implementation-ready technical specifications.
- Define technical standards, reference implementations, architectural patterns, and integration contracts across the value stream portfolio.
- Partner with architects, peer Release Train engineers, and adjacent release trains to align technical direction and resolve cross-team decisions.
- Identify architectural drift, technical debt, capability gaps, risks, and constraints, then lead remediation and document mitigation strategies.
- Drive adoption of spec-driven development and embed architectural intent into AI coding agent and engineering workflows.
- Support incident commanders during production incidents by providing technical depth, accelerating diagnosis, and driving remediation.
- Evaluate emerging engineering technologies and transfer knowledge through mentorship and reference implementations.
- Review product requirements and system designs to guide maintainable, scalable, and resilient implementations.
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 technologies such as StencilJS and C#.
- Experience designing and delivering distributed software systems, including 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 modern delivery methodologies, spec-driven development, Agile practices at scale, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Experience reviewing requirements and system designs from an architectural perspective and driving implementation patterns.
- Ability to collaborate across Product, Architecture, and Engineering organizations and influence decisions without formal authority.
- Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude or Copilot and with defining architectural guardrails in agent configurations, constitutions, or briefings.
- Ability to evaluate and adopt engineering tools, architectural patterns, and methodologies that improve delivery, quality, or productivity.
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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.