The Senior Software Engineer (.NET) is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining web and web services based financial software applications. These applications fulfill critical business needs and directly impact our customers. We are looking for a motivated individual with zest for learning and passion for technology to be part of our Engineering team. Risk-taking is encouraged here, innovation a must, and we reward great results. Collaboration and support are woven into the fabric of everything we do; from 24-hour Hackathon groups to sprint reviews and scrum teams, you’ll be immersed in an environment that nurtures individualism, creative problem-solving, and intellect.

Responsibilities

Technical: We need someone who has a strong foundational knowledge in the Microsoft .NET development stack. Working with the architecture team to design, develop and evolve solutions.

Communication: We need someone who can give feedback (both positive and constructively critical). Communicate clearly and concisely to implement leading/best practices and processes to ensure alignment across the Engineering teams.

Ownership: We want you to lead your initiatives, celebrate successes and own the failures. In this role you’ll identify and manage technical risks and opportunities, taking responsibility for the quality of technical deliverables

Innovation: Promote a culture of innovation that shares technology effectively and responsibly; you will refine and embody a cross-functional Engineering culture that works for all departments, encouraging knowledge transfer and professional growth

What will you do?

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a group of talented developers to create best in class vehicle ownership experience products. The Senior Software Engineer will enable our Lender Services focus and will design and develop capabilities that will help us accelerate our Lender initiatives. This engineer will be working primarily with our Lender Solutions leadership and help build storing integration synergies with F&I solutions. Works with Product Management to understand the challenges that customers and end users face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions. Further details:

Senior Software Engineer is assigned to a Scrum team, working on their backlog, supporting the team technically, raising the bar and increase software quality

Reviews, analyzes designs, modifies, develops, tests, documents, and implements software applications

Experience designing implementing microservices at scale with containers

Analyzes and resolves complex problems associated with applications systems.  Detects, diagnoses, and reports related problems

Prepares paperwork and attends departmental and project related meetings

Recommends viable solutions to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt.

Foresees capacity requirements for component usage and identifies limitations.

Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning.

Contributes to product and solution designs to address critical issues and complex problems.

Builds software applications across multiple platforms in response to the needs of stakeholders.

Understands technical architecture and writes software and automated tests that are aligned with agreed upon standards.  

Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary. 

Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.

Actively works with less experienced software engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.

Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new software technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.

Qualifications:

What do you need to succeed?

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education 

6+ years of working experience

Working experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems

Collaboration on applications from conception and design, to implementation and maintenance

Technologies

Experience using .NET Framework 3.5+, .NET Core 2.0

C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Web Forms, WEB API, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Unit Testing Frameworks (e.g. NUnit, XUnit, Microsoft Visual Studio Tests, etc)

Dependency Injection – Autofac or Castle Windsor

CICD – hands on experience and comfort level (e.g. Jenkins preferred, Team City)

PL SQL, Oracle Database, Oracle 11g + preferred

GitHub and understanding of code-reviews using pull requests

Good understanding of Agile Methodology using SAFe

Knowledge over distributed applications, micro services and its underlying design patterns.

Knowledge over Object Orientation, software design principles

Experience developing resilient RESTful API’s.

Modern Front-end frameworks such as React, React Native or Angular

Nice to have:

Scrum Master certification (PSM or CSM)

AWS – Amazon Web Services certifications (Associate, Professional or Specialty levels):

AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer or AWS DevOps Engineer

Overall Infrastructure knowledge (Virtualization, Load balancers, Firewalls, Networks, etc)

NServiceBus, RabbitMQ knowledge.

IOS Development (Objective-C)

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.

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.  Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.  

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