Lead Software Engineer - 19999
Cox Enterprises, Inc.3 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$123k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design, architectural decisions, technical planning, and risk mitigation for features, services, or platforms.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions across the technology stack.
- Review and approve technical designs and code changes while enforcing engineering, security, performance, and quality standards.
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues and ensure production readiness, reliability, and observability.
- Apply AI-assisted development tools for coding, code reviews, refactoring, testing, documentation, and defect analysis.
- Mentor engineers at junior, mid-level, and senior levels through code reviews, design sessions, and peer programming.
- Lead cloud-native and serverless architecture adoption, infrastructure health, cost optimization, security posture, performance, and DevOps improvements.
- Guide responsible AI adoption and evaluate AI capabilities, generated outputs, and AI integrations for correctness, security, privacy, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience in a related field, or a master’s degree and 4 years, a Ph.D. and 1 year, or 18 years of related experience.
- Strong experience designing and building web-based or distributed systems.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building and deploying applications in AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud environments.
- Experience with Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, and documentation.
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated outputs and understand prompt design, context management, AI limitations, data privacy, security, and ethical considerations.
- Experience integrating AI services or APIs into software systems and guiding effective, responsible AI adoption.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with the ability to work remotely part of the week.
- Flexible paid vacation, seven paid holidays, and up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually.
- Additional paid leave may include bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, parental, sick, and other paid time off.
- Potential health care coverage including medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus retirement planning through a 401(k).
- Pre-employment drug testing is required; Cox does not currently test for marijuana for this position.
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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.