Software Engineer II

Our Software Engineers are energetic influencers who thrive on designing simple and scalable solutions to complex problems and delivering leading-edge software products for our customers. We are looking for exceptionally ambitious and communicative hands-on individuals who are comfortable collaborating within the Agile methodology as part of a cross-functional team, have experience working in fast-paced environments, and who have the passion and skills to take our product offerings to the next level.
As a Software Engineer you will work in a collaborative team environment that encourages you to perform at your best, while contributing to the engineering efforts of one of our scrum teams. You will be challenged to engineer right-sized solutions for complex business problems. You will apply your knowledge of modern software design, best practices, design patterns, and frameworks, with an understanding of application performance and maintainability. You will aspire to use new technologies and challenge yourself to develop innovative solutions. You will work alongside developers and technical leads on a team where collaborative programming and mentoring is regularly practiced.
Your Duties

• Being a passionate and flexible engineer, collaborate with your team to achieve and exceed the goal to build, deploy, monitor and manage a highly performing and highly available production system.
• Construct and manage services published to both internal and external consumers.
• Implement platform-level components including event architectures, messaging, and caching solutions.
• Write readable, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of REST APIs, services, system tasks and cloud solutions.
• Enhance performance and reliability of our current solutions.
• Collaborate with team members on best practices, code reviews, internal tools and process improvements.
• Evangelize new ideas within your team as well as across teams.
• Explore open source or industry standard solutions that could be a fit for the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or other engineering discipline), and 2+ years experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 year's experience; or 14 years' experience in a related field.
• Strong .NET skills and object-oriented design experience, including extensive knowledge of:
• .NET technology platforms
• Applied use of design patterns and REST
• MVC technologies such as AngularJS or ReactJS.

What We Look For

• Experience delivering software in cloud-based systems is a plus.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and independently to design, develop and deploy solutions
• Experience designing and implementing applications with highly optimized and scalable architectures
• Good understanding of industry development, deployment processes and agile development methodologies desired.
• Knowledge of session management, object relational mapping is a plus.
• Advanced technical degree and/or related training a plus

USD 94,100.00 - 141,100.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $94,100.00 - $141,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .
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