Software Engineer I
About The Position
Cox Automotive is seeking an entry-level full stack engineer who builds software collaboratively with AI tools and agents. You ship working code every sprint, learn fast, and treat AI-augmented development as a core skill - not an add-on. Who You Are: AI-Augmented Mindset: Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) in personal, academic, or professional projects. You don't just use autocomplete - you provide context, iterate on outputs, and evaluate quality. Spec Driven Development (SDD) experience is a plus. Problem Solving: Analytical thinking with attention to detail and a methodical approach to debugging and troubleshooting. Experience with an object oriented program language. Full Stack Curiosity: Desire to work across the entire technology stack rather than specializing in a single layer. Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. Understanding of RESTful API design and development. Basic understanding of observability concepts (e.g., logging, monitoring, and tracing). Knowledge of database technologies like MSSQL. Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as 4 years’ experience in a related field. 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.
Requirements
- AI-Augmented Mindset: Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) in personal, academic, or professional projects. You don't just use autocomplete - you provide context, iterate on outputs, and evaluate quality.
- Problem Solving: Analytical thinking with attention to detail and a methodical approach to debugging and troubleshooting.
- Experience with an object oriented program language.
- Full Stack Curiosity: Desire to work across the entire technology stack rather than specializing in a single layer.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
- Understanding of RESTful API design and development.
- Basic understanding of observability concepts (e.g., logging, monitoring, and tracing).
- Knowledge of database technologies like MSSQL.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Spec Driven Development (SDD) experience is a plus.
- The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as 4 years’ experience in a related field.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with AI agents and tools to build, test, and deploy software across the SDLC - providing proper contextual inputs to improve AI understanding and output quality.
- Work on integrating observability tools to monitor and improve system performance.
- Contribute to prompt engineering experimentation and share tool usage insights with the team.
- Collaborate on system tests to provide coverage for current systems and new changes.
- Evaluate and respond to bug submissions.
- Apply secure coding practices consistently across all development work.
- Communicate changes, challenges, and progress transparently to the team.
- Participate in code reviews - both giving and receiving feedback.
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.
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
