Software Engineer I

Cox Automotive, is seeking a Software Engineer I to join our Consumer Intelligence team.
At Cox Automotive, we offer the chance to take a significant role in the digital revolution of the automotive industry. Our software engineers are part of an energetic team that build world-class solutions to benefit the auto buying public, dealers and manufacturers. At Cox Automotive, you'll be immersed in an environment that values your teamwork and creative problem-solving techniques while encouraging you to continue to learn new skills and technologies.
Risk-taking is encouraged here and we reward remarkable results. Collaboration and support are woven into the fabric of everything we do; from 24-hour Hackathons and brain-storming sessions to sprint reviews, you'll be immersed in an environment that encourages bringing fresh ideas to the table with an innovative mindset.
Cox Automotive is currently looking for a Software Engineer I to join our Consumer Intelligence team in Irvine, CA, Atlanta, GA and Burlington VT.
As aSoftware Engineer I, 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 Role:

• Design, develop, and optimize API-driven solutions that enable data-driven insights for downstream consumers-including business stakeholders, analytics platforms, and reporting tools-while partnering with AI agents throughout the software development lifecycle to build, test, and deploy high-quality applications using contextual inputs that enhance AI accuracy and output reliability.
• Implement and design custom data streaming applications using technologies like Kafka, AWS, and Python, Type Script and JavaScript
• Prioritize and practice the infrastructure as code principle with Terraform and AWS CDK
• Build, deploy and test using CI/CD practices
• Participate in the exploration and POC of new technologies as they become available to the team
• Collaborate with the 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
• 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

Technologies We Use:

• Development languages framework: Java, Spark, Kafka, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Springboot
• AWS cloud-native architectures in multiple regions
• DevOps Tools: Terraform, GitHub Actions, CDK
• Database: Aurora Postgres, Snowflake, DynamoDB
• Monitoring and Alerting: New Relic and PagerDuty
• AI Tools: Microsoft Copilot, MCP

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as 12 years' experience in a related field.
• 1-2 years of experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, frontend or backend development of client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems.
• Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.

What We Look For:

• Ability to work within a dynamic team committed to excellence
• Commitment to working in an Agile environment and upholding its principles.
• Solid listening skills, ability to be flexible and open minded to all ideas.
• Ability to utilize AI-assisted workflows for improving development speed, accuracy, and overall software quality.
• Engage in active discussion & participate in meetings
• Experience in realizing applications from conception and design to implementation and support.
• Coding within multiple technology stacks (e.g. Back-end: server, application, database using languages like Java, Python, TypeScript).
• Familiarity with working in cloud environment, leveraging cloud-native services and utilizing CI/CD processes and tools.

USD 86,600.00 - 129,800.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $86,600.00 - $129,800.00. 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, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.