Sr Software Engineer

Cox Communications • Atlanta, GA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Cox Automotive is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our agile development team in Atlanta, GA. This role is ideal for a curious, adaptable engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys working across the stack, and is excited to explore emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) to help drive the next generation of our core products. As a senior team member, you will drive technical excellence, mentor junior engineers, and champion best practices in cloud-native, DevOps-focused software engineering. You’ll work in a collaborative, cross-functional Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban, partnering closely with product owners, QA engineers, and other teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 8 years’ experience in a related field
• 4+ years hands-on building and running systems in AWS in production.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, presentation, and collaborative skills to work effectively with teams throughout organization
• 2 + years of proficiency in (Dart, Flutter or React.js )
• AWS-specific background: (Significant hands-on experience with several of: Compute: EC2, EKS, Lambda Storage & Data: S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Aurora Networking & Edge: VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudFront, API Gateway Messaging & Integration: SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis Observability & Management: CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, Config
• Proven track record designing at least one mission-critical system on AWS (large scale, high availability, or stringent security).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with PEGA Platform
• Experience or familiarity with development using Dart and the Flutter framework.
• AWS certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect, or DevOps) highly preferred.
• Experience working with AI technologies or strong curiosity to incorporate AI into development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy robust, scalable software solutions that meet user story requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Write and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Support functional testing efforts for applications, modules, or new features.
• Troubleshoot and resolve software defects and production issues.
• Break down epics and stories into technical tasks and provide accurate estimates.
• Build expertise in the applications, systems, and services you support.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and collaborate within a cross-functional team.
• Effectively document your work and share knowledge with the team.
• Monitor and manage cloud infrastructure (cost, performance, security) within AWS.
• Enhance infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to improve performance, security, and deployment cycles.
• Stay current on new tools, technologies, and trends relevant to your technical domain.
• Explore and incorporate AI capabilities to improve code quality, deployment processes, and innovation within our engineering practice.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance and peer programming.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees