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Cox Automotive is currently hiring an experienced Senior Software Engineer (node.js, AWS, APIs) to join our Vehicle Catalog team.

The Team

We are responsible for creating and operating solutions for the data needs of all of Cox Automotive as part of the Cox Automotive Data Solutions Group.  Our specific domain is Vehicle Description and Valuations. We make it easier to correctly list, advertise, and represent vehicles online. Our customers need accurate vehicle descriptions with the correct details for Year, Make, Model, and Trim. We output data models from our data science team to aid product pricing with an nth degree of variables. Whether we are writing code to decode a VIN number, or sifting through vehicle data to integrate more accurate information in vehicle descriptions our engineers have fun doing it. We enjoy collaborative software design sessions and writing fault tolerant Python and node.js based solutions, centralizing data repositories with APIs and working across the Cox Automotive footprint.

The Role

You will work on creating products which deliver data to business units across Cox Automotive such as Kelly Blue Book, Autotrader, and Manheim Auto Auctions. These include APIs with traffic in the hundreds to a few thousand requests per second and processes to produce data sets for export. You will also work on web application tooling used internally for reviewing, creating, and managing parts of this data. 

As a Software Engineer at Cox Automotive you will:

Build solutions exclusively using AWS technologies and offerings including SNS and SQS, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda Functions, Athena, Aurora, Glue, and Firehose.

Have end to end ownership of solutions, from participation in clarifying requirements to collaborating on architectural design, technical documentation, programming, manual and automated testing, building, deploying, validating, monitoring, and after-hours rotating operational support.

Take an active role in identifying and prioritizing opportunities for investment in the technical, non-functional requirements of the system.

Learn and become familiar with a supporting platform built using Circle CI, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Kong, using Docker containers exclusively (plus a few Lambdas), and emphasizing patterns and an approach inspired by 12 Factor App Methodology

Participate in evaluations of new technologies, platforms, frameworks, and techniques, collaborating with your peers to help shape the direction of the engineering group.

 Qualifications:

Qualification – Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience

Professional experience with:

Node.js

Cloud Development (AWS preferred, or GCP)

RDBMS experience:

CRUD

Performance

Schema design

Experience managing versioning and branching for project code

CI/CD pipeline delivery and pipeline automation experience

Experience developing test coverage for applications

Experience with Production Monitoring tools like cloud logs, metrics, application/db analytics for:

Maintenance

Latency

Optimization

What We Look For

Working knowledge of Git and branching patterns

Openness to feedback and ability to creatively adapt multiple ideas into a solution

Ability to take direction at the level of problems to solve and provide options and direction on potential solutions

Analytical skills and the ability to break complex and challenging problems and defects down until they become actionable

Familiarity with producing technical writing including high and low level diagramming techniques

A desire to succeed as a team and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and growth of all team members; including;

Mentorship – both formal and informal

Collaboration

Sharing knowledge

Experience with lean methodologies

Public speaking skills

Teaching or tutoring experience

Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, and patterns of Infrastructure as Code

Experience with non-relational data stores, especially Elasticsearch and DynamoDB

Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

There’s nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox 

We are the Cox family of businesses. We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us.  Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators.  We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation.  We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

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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