The Software Engineer II writes and maintains code within applications and systems to implement capabilities and features, improve performance and maintainability, while reducing technical debt in alignment with product and technology roadmaps. The Software Engineer II plays a role in Agile planning, providing advice and guidance, and monitoring emerging trends.
Team Overview:
Our Engineering division is detail-oriented and passionate. We thrive on designing simple and scalable solutions to complex problems and delivering leading edge software products for our customers. We are looking for ambitious and communicative hands-on leaders who are comfortable working with the agile methodology as part of an interdisciplinary team, have experience working in fast-paced environments, and who have passion and skills to take our product offering to the next level.
Responsibilities:

• Works with Product Management to understand the challenges that customers and end users face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions.
• Recommends viable solutions to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt.
• Foresees capacity requirements for component usage and identifies limitations.
• Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning.
• Contributes to product and solution designs to address critical issues and complex problems.
• Builds software applications across multiple platforms in response to the needs of stakeholders.
• Understands technical architecture and writes software and automated tests that are aligned with agreed upon standards.
• Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary.
• Application Support • Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.
• Actively works with less experienced software engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.
• Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new software technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 2+ years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years' experience or 14 years' experience in a related field
• Working experience in coding within multiple technology stacks (e.g. Front-end: React, JavaScript; Back-end: server, application and relational databases
• Proficiency with C# and .NET
• Familiarity with the AWS suite.
• Familiarity with GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Working experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components and client-facing web applications

About Cox Automotive
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