Software Engineer II

Cox Communications • Carmel, IN

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Software Engineer II within NextGear Capital, you will help build and evolve the systems, applications, and digital capabilities that support its inventory finance business. As part of a collaborative product and engineering team, you will contribute to solutions for critical business operations, customer experiences, and technology innovation. The role involves taking ownership of discrete features and system components while growing technical depth and business understanding. You will work with product managers, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to design, build, test, and deliver high-quality software.

AI-assisted software development is an important part of the team's approach. You will use modern AI tools and development practices throughout the software development lifecycle to improve delivery, quality, and collaboration, while maintaining responsibility for design decisions, code quality, security, and solution outcomes. You may contribute across the full stack, participate in technical design discussions, collaborate on product strategy and delivery, and help evolve engineering practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 2 years of experience in a related field; alternatively, a master’s degree and up to 2 years of experience, or 14 years of experience in a related field.
• Consistent, effective use of AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor across the SDLC; provide strong context, iterate on outputs, and critically assess quality and correctness.
• Sound analytical judgment and ability to troubleshoot and resolve moderately complex issues with limited guidance.
• Working proficiency across the supported stack, such as a backend framework (e.g., Java/Spring Boot), a frontend framework (e.g., React), and SQL/relational data modeling, with depth in at least one layer.
• Comfort with Git workflows, branching strategies, and collaborative development practices.
• Working knowledge of logging, metrics, and monitoring tools, such as New Relic, dashboards, and alerts.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs and status clearly to teammates and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to complete a pre-employment drug test.

Nice To Haves

• Spec Driven Development (SDD) experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AI agents and tools to build, test, and deploy software across the SDLC, providing context that improves AI understanding and taking ownership of output quality.
• Experiment with prompt engineering and share insights about tool usage with the team.
• Participate in design and development discussions and help conceptualize desired outcomes from a software engineering perspective.
• Provide technical input for estimating features and elements, including resources, time, and anticipated outcomes.
• Develop and implement unit and system tests for integral code paths and follow secure coding practices.
• Provide technical support, troubleshoot issues, and enhance existing and new features in application and system structures.
• Use observability tools, including logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards, to monitor system health, diagnose issues, and validate production changes.
• Document processes, best practices, methodologies, and repeatable practices.
• Keep team members, managers, product owners, and other stakeholders informed about status, challenges, and concerns.
• Participate in code reviews by giving and receiving feedback.
• Own assigned work and drive it to completion with minimal oversight; stay engaged with teammates, raise blockers early, and contribute to shared team goals.
• Produce working software each sprint that meets the definition of done, delivers expected value, and stays within engineering constraints.
• Maintain effective AI-augmented workflows that improve speed and quality, and share effective practices with the team.
• Deliver maintainable, testable, and performant software that uses existing patterns and meets client needs.
• Surface changes in direction that affect time, effort, cost, or scope promptly.
• Identify opportunities for automation, improvement, or learning and act on them with minimal guidance.

Benefits

• Flexible paid vacation, taken as employees deem consistent with their duties and the company's needs and obligations.
• Seven paid holidays per calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually for personal or family wellness.
• Additional paid time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military leave, and parental leave.
• Potential health care insurance, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Potential 401(k) retirement planning.
• Potential paid days off, including sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation or wellness days, and/or PTO.

What This Job Offers

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