Lead Software Engineer
Cox AutomotiveBase Salary
$176k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Management and stakeholders to understand customer challenges and design viable software solutions.
- Recommend process, technology, and interface improvements that increase team effectiveness and reduce technical debt.
- Assess component capacity requirements and identify technical limitations.
- Contribute to story sizing, backlog grooming, release planning, product design, solution design, and architecture.
- Build, troubleshoot, investigate, monitor, maintain, and support deployed software applications across multiple platforms.
- Write software, automated tests, and unit tests aligned with agreed-upon standards.
- Provide technical guidance and oversight to less experienced software engineers.
- Perform analysis and proofs of concept for new and upgraded feature work.
Requirements
- Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field and six years of experience designing, developing, and implementing software systems and components and major Internet-oriented applications or systems.
- A master’s or foreign equivalent degree with four years of stated experience, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree with one year of stated experience, may substitute for the bachelor’s degree and six years of experience.
- Requires six years of experience realizing applications from design through implementation.
- Requires six years of experience coding across multiple technology stacks, including frontend HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Angular or React, and application development with C#.
- Requires six years of experience analyzing, designing, and programming in C#.
- Requires one year of experience writing unit tests.
- Experience may be acquired concurrently.
Benefits
- Flexible paid vacation consistent with job 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 time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military leave, and parental leave.
- Telecommuting is permitted according to company policy, but the employee must live within commuting distance of the Austin, Texas office.
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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.