Lead Software Engineer

Cox Communications • Atlanta, GA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Software Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for driving the full-stack design, development, and delivery of software solutions across one or more small, high-velocity engineering teams. This role operates above the Senior Software Engineer level and blends deep engineering excellence with a modern AI-first mindset — including the ability to rapidly prototype with tools like Claude, Amazon Bedrock, and other GenAI platforms to accelerate team output and innovation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 18 years 'experience in a related field.
• True full-stack fluency across web (React/TypeScript), mobile/cross-platform (Flutter/Dart), and backend (Python or Node.js).
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on AWS serverless experience with Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EventBridge.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and serverless deployment patterns.
• Proven track record of rapid prototyping with AI/GenAI tools in a professional setting.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring small engineering teams.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, context management, and AI tool limitations.
• Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Deep hands-on expertise across AWS Serverless Architecture: Compute (Lambda, Step Functions), Data (DynamoDB, S3, Aurora Serverless), Messaging & Events (SQS, SNS, EventBridge), API & Auth (API Gateway, Cognito, AppSync), Observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray), Infrastructure as Code (CDK, SAM, CloudFormation).

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural and technical design decisions for features, services, or platforms.
• Decompose epics and features into technical implementation plans with clear ownership.
• Review and approve technical designs, code changes, and pull requests.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and trade-offs; propose mitigation strategies.
• Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy full-stack applications across the core stack: React / TypeScript (web), Flutter / Dart (mobile & cross-platform), and Python / Node.js (backend).
• Build and maintain scalable REST and GraphQL APIs using AWS API Gateway + Lambda.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK / SAM), and blue/green deployment strategies.
• Ensure production readiness through observability, automated testing, and monitoring.
• Lead design and delivery of event-driven, serverless-first architectures on AWS.
• Rapidly prototype new product concepts using Claude, Amazon Bedrock, and other LLM/Gen AI platforms.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, testing, documentation, and code review.
• Evaluate AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, and production readiness.
• Define team-level standards and best practices for AI tool adoption.
• Demonstrate ability to ideate → prototype → validate → ship in tight cycles to support fast-moving engineering teams.
• Serve as the technical anchor for a small, high-velocity scrum team — guiding direction, coaching engineers, and driving accountability.
• Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and QA to align technical direction with organizational goals.
• Mentor senior, mid-level, and junior engineers on design, cloud practices, and AI tool usage.
• Promote a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and learning.

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
• up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• 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.
• health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• retirement planning (401(k))
• paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior