User Interface Engineer Technical Lead

Cox Communications•Atlanta, GA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC is seeking a User Interface Engineer Technical Lead in Atlanta, Georgia. This role involves providing technical leadership to drive architecture, design, performance, and code quality within the department. The position requires active participation in Scrum teams for design, development (including POCs), testing, and deployment, utilizing responsive web development principles. The lead will assist in defining the department's role in corporate strategy, set aligned objectives, and promote high technical excellence among IT development staff. Key responsibilities include maintaining communication with project teams, verifying designs, adjusting solution architecture, defining and promoting best practices for continuous improvement in resilience, quality, scalability, and performance, and ensuring adherence to technical excellence standards. The role also involves ensuring engineers have necessary training and tools, anticipating future technology needs based on business requirements, and participating in the selection and rollout of new technologies. Defining relevant technical skills, patterns, security, resilience, programming languages, certifications, performance, software design, and documentation is also part of the role. Collaboration with the UX design team is crucial for optimizing the end-user experience. Specific technical tasks include designing and implementing React-based UI components, driving API definition for back-end communication, and optimizing front-end applications for speed, scalability, and reuse. The lead will also guide offshore engineering teams to meet functional requirements, quality, performance, and code stability standards.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major internet applications and systems.
Must have 6 years of experience in each of the following: Working through the full software development lifecycle, including design, functional and technical requirements, coding, debugging, testing, release, and operational support; Realizing applications from conception and design to implementation and support; Using agile software development methodologies, modern API and service design, and object-oriented programming methodologies; Following software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations; Communicating technical issues to technical, non-technical, and management groups and presenting to senior leadership and team members; Developing software or information systems, including developing transactional applications in heterogeneous environments and architectures for multi-user systems; Using CI/CD toolkits, including Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and building Single Page Applications (SPA), Web and RESTful services, and event-driven architecture; and Working with UI technologies HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and REACT, and using version control, including Git and Stash.
In lieu of a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience as stated, employer will accept a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience as stated, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership to all teams in the domain to drive architecture, design, performance and code quality in alignment with vision and direction set for the department/across departments.
Actively participate within the Scrum teams to design, develop (write POCs), test and deploy software.
Use responsive web development principles and best practices.
Assist in determining the role of the department in the overall corporate strategy and set objectives that are aligned with this role.
Promote and ensure a high level of technical excellence in our IT development staff that is in keeping with a high-performing organization.
Maintain continual communication with assigned project teams, verifying what was designed was built and adjusting the solution architecture as appropriate throughout the project.
Help define and promote best practices and guidelines to ensure continuous improvement in resilience, quality, scalability and performance within the engineering staff.
Ensure that standards are followed for technical excellence, including relevant certifications.
Help ensure Engineers have the relevant training and tools required to perform optimally within a high-performing organization and to deliver quality software products.
Anticipate future technology needs based on business requirements and participate in the selection and roll out of new technologies and tools.
Help to define relevant technical skills needed, including patterns, security, resilience, programming languages, certifications, performance, software design, documentation, etc.
Collaborate with UX design team to drive for the best possible end-user experience.
Design and implement React based UI components for highly interactive user experience.
Drive API definition for communication to back-end.
Optimize front-end applications for speed, scalability and reuse.
Lead offshore engineering teams to ensure satisfaction of functional requirements, minimum quality and performance, and code stability.

Benefits

health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
retirement planning (401(k))
paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
bereavement leave
time off to vote
jury duty leave
volunteer time off
military leave
parental leave
flexible vacation/wellness days
seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually