Software Engineer II - 20269

About the role

Cox Automotive is looking for a Software Engineer II who applies the principles of secure software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of software and cloud infrastructure. You will work cross-functionally to understand business requirements, architecture, and technology direction, evaluate alternative approaches, and ensure software and systems are designed accordingly. The role focuses on facilitating system functionality, scalability, resilience, and security, as well as ease-of-use for developers and users. You will apply agile principles to software development with an emphasis on delivering business value, collaboration, continuous improvement, and sustainability.

Cox Automotive is unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field; or a master's degree and 2 years' experience; or a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 12 years' experience in a related field with no degree.
• Professional experience designing, building, and maintaining production software in a modern object-oriented language (e.g., C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Python, C++).
• Strong command of object-oriented design fundamentals—encapsulation, composition, interface design, SOLID, dependency injection, and common design patterns—with the judgment to know when not to apply them.
• Experience delivering software in a microservice or service-oriented architecture, including defining service boundaries, versioning APIs, and handling distributed failure modes (timeouts, retries, idempotency, partial failure).
• Experience designing and consuming HTTP/REST APIs (or gRPC/GraphQL equivalents), including contract design, backward compatibility, and authentication/authorization patterns.
• Proficiency with relational databases: schema design, indexing, query tuning, transactions, and managed schema migrations.
• Experience with asynchronous and message-driven processing using queues, topics, or event streams.
• Experience building and operating services in a public cloud environment, including containerized workloads.
• Demonstrated automated testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, with work delivered through a CI/CD pipeline.
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows and code review as a routine part of delivery—both giving and receiving substantive feedback.
• Experience with production support and observability: structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and triaging live incidents.
• Track record of senior-level ownership: taking ambiguous problems through design, implementation, and release; decomposing work for others; and raising engineering standards on a team.
• Clear written and verbal communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in an Agile or iterative delivery model.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with C# and .NET (modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core).
• Front-end experience with React and TypeScript, including modern component patterns, state management, and component/E2E testing.
• Production experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
• Experience using Redis for caching, distributed locking, or rate limiting, including cache invalidation strategy.
• AWS experience, particularly ECS/Fargate, RDS, SQS/SNS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation) and Docker.
• Familiarity with distributed system patterns such as outbox, saga/compensating transactions, eventual consistency, and idempotent consumers.
• Demonstrated performance and scalability work: profiling, query optimization, caching strategy, or load testing.
• Experience with feature flags and progressive delivery (canary releases, dark launches, trunk-based development).
• Familiarity with static analysis, code quality, and dependency/security scanning tooling (e.g., SonarQube, SAST, SCA).
• Experience modernizing or retiring legacy systems, including incremental migration approaches such as strangler-fig.
• Experience integrating third-party vendor APIs, including handling vendor migrations.
• Multi-tenant SaaS experience, especially entitlements, tiered packaging, or role-based access control.
• Domain experience in two-sided marketplaces, logistics, transportation, or automotive.
• Experience with resiliency practices such as game days, chaos exercises, or documented runbooks.
• Experience mentoring engineers or interns, and participating in hiring and interview loops.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development tooling as part of a normal workflow.

Pay

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $89,400.00 - $134,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated range based on factors such as location and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. The position may also be eligible for additional compensation through an incentive program.

Benefits

• Flexible vacation policy with pay, consistent with duties and company needs.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually for personal or family wellness.
• Additional paid time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military leave, and parental leave.