Senior Mobile Engineer
Cox AutomotiveResponsibilities
- Build, test, and deploy native mobile software across the software development lifecycle using AI agents and development tools.
- Experiment with prompt engineering and help define team standards for AI-augmented development.
- Develop Android and potentially iOS mobile features and components using established architectural standards.
- Create unit and system tests, maintain secure coding practices, and deliver maintainable, testable, and performant software.
- Provide technical support, troubleshooting, and enhancements for existing and new mobile application features.
- Use crash reporting, logs, metrics, dashboards, tracing, monitoring, and alerts to monitor application health and diagnose production issues.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and other team members on technical design, estimation, and delivery.
- Work with backend APIs, data contracts, endpoint behavior, authentication patterns, and error handling affecting mobile applications.
- Participate in code reviews and communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, status, challenges, and recommendations.
- Document processes and best practices, identify improvement opportunities, and mentor less experienced teammates.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4 years of related experience, or an alternative combination such as a master’s degree with 2 years, a Ph.D. with up to 1 year, or 16 years of related experience.
- Demonstrated native mobile development experience with Android, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose and/or iOS, Swift, and SwiftUI.
- Advanced use of AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor across the software development lifecycle.
- Working knowledge of backend services such as Java and Spring Boot, authentication patterns, relational data models, and distributed-system integrations.
- Familiarity with modern mobile architecture patterns, platform development tools, testing frameworks, and performance optimization.
- Fluency with Git workflows, branching, code review, and collaborative development practices.
- Strong knowledge of logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, dashboards, and alerts, with the ability to establish or improve observability practices.
- Analytical and architectural judgment, including the ability to resolve complex ambiguous problems and anticipate risks and dependencies.
- Clear communication of technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to management and project stakeholders.
Benefits
- The role offers opportunities to contribute across the mobile development lifecycle and shape modern engineering practices.
- Work arrangement requires working in the Carmel, Indiana office three days per week.
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.