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The Role
Lead and mentor a software engineering team to design, build, and deliver secure, scalable cloud applications. Drive engineering excellence, spec-driven development, AI-assisted tooling adoption, and cross-functional collaboration. Own hiring, performance, and career development while ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery aligned to product and business goals.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Manager, Software Engineering is responsible for leading and developing high-performing engineering teams that design, build, and deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions. This role combines strong people leadership with technical direction, ensuring teams consistently deliver business value while maintaining engineering excellence.
In addition, this role drives adoption of AI-transformed development practices and specification-driven engineering, enabling faster, higher-quality, and more predictable delivery outcomes.
What You'll Do
Team Leadership & Delivery
Engineering Excellence
AI-Transformed Development
Spec-Driven Development
Strategy & Collaboration
Talent Management
Who You Are
Preferred Qualifications
What Success Looks Like
USD 122,600.00 - 204,400.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $122,600.00 - $204,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
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.
EOE, including disability/vets
In addition, this role drives adoption of AI-transformed development practices and specification-driven engineering, enabling faster, higher-quality, and more predictable delivery outcomes.
What You'll Do
Team Leadership & Delivery
- Lead, grow, and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the planning, design, development, and delivery of software products and services.
- Ensure delivery of secure, scalable, and well-tested software aligned with business and customer needs.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Engineering Excellence
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices, including testing, automation, observability, and reliability.
- Drive continuous improvement across development processes, including Agile practices and DevOps principles.
- Promote high standards of code quality, architecture, and system design.
AI-Transformed Development
- Champion adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude) for coding, testing, and documentation.
- Define best practices for safe, secure, and effective AI usage within the SDLC.
- Enable teams to evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, and maintainability.
- Drive productivity improvements through AI-enabled automation and developer workflows.
Spec-Driven Development
- Establish and scale spec-driven development (SDD) practices across teams.
- Ensure clear, structured specifications define requirements, architecture, and acceptance criteria before implementation.
- Promote specification-first workflows where specs serve as the authoritative input for development and AI-assisted execution.
- Align engineering, product, and UX teams around shared specifications to improve clarity and reduce rework.
Strategy & Collaboration
- Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional planning and strategy discussions.
- Use metrics to guide data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.
Talent Management
- Manage hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development of team members.
- Coach engineers on technical skills, system design, and modern development practices.
- Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, craftsmanship, and learning.
Who You Are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 6 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year experience in a related field; or 18 years' experience in a related field.
- Proven background in hands-on software engineering required, with demonstrated success designing, building, and scaling production-grade systems prior to moving into leadership.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading or managing teams.
- Experience designing and building distributed, cloud-based applications (e.g., AWS).
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and modern engineering practices.
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required.
- Atlanta based Candidates Only - In Office 3 days a week required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading distributed or global engineering teams.
- Experience in highly scalable or high-availability systems.
- Background in platform engineering or API-driven architectures.
- Experience driving large-scale engineering transformations (e.g., AI adoption, modernization initiatives).
What Success Looks Like
- Teams consistently deliver high-quality software with predictable outcomes.
- AI is effectively embedded in day-to-day engineering workflows, improving speed and quality.
- Spec-driven practices reduce ambiguity, rework, and defects.
- Engineers are engaged, growing, and operating at a high level of ownership.
- Strong alignment between engineering, product, and business outcomes.
USD 122,600.00 - 204,400.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $122,600.00 - $204,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
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.
EOE, including disability/vets
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent degree/experience combinations) and relevant years of experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading or managing teams
- Proven hands-on software engineering background with production-grade systems design and scaling
- Experience designing and building distributed, cloud-based applications (e.g., AWS)
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and modern engineering practices
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours
- Atlanta based candidates only; in-office 3 days per week required
- Experience leading distributed or global engineering teams
- Experience with highly scalable or high-availability systems
- Background in platform engineering or API-driven architectures
- Experience driving large-scale engineering transformations (e.g., AI adoption, modernization)
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Cox Enterprises Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as robust with multiple medical plan options (PPOs and an HSA‑eligible HDHP), in‑network preventive care at 100%, and expanded mental health and virtual care access. Specialized offerings such as fertility benefits, gender‑affirming care, and wellness programs (e.g., Calm, FitnessOnDemand, Hinge Health) further bolster breadth.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program features an enhanced employer contribution for most newer hires—dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% and an automatic 2% contribution after 90 days, with legacy formulas for earlier hire dates. Financial tools and student‑debt support via Candidly deepen long‑term savings support.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of eight weeks, adoption assistance (up to $5,000 per adoption), and resources like backup care and childcare discounts are highlighted. Family‑building and caregiving supports (e.g., fertility coverage, Milk Stork, Care.com access) are emphasized across materials.
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The Company
What We Do
For well over a century, Cox Enterprises has been shaping the future with daring ideas and values-driven thinking. Since our founding in 1898, our relentless spirit of innovation has driven us to disrupt industries and enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve. Through our major divisions — Cox Communications, Cox Automotive and Cox Farms — our people have countless opportunities to grow and make an impact in the communications and automotive industries, as well as in new ventures in agriculture, cleantech, digital media and more. As a privately-held, family-owned business, we know that people are our most valuable asset. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment with flexible career growth, amazing benefits and work-life balance at the forefront. Our mission, our ways of working and our commitment to people are what make our workplace culture remarkably flexible and resilient. Join us to build a better future and make your mark.
Why Work With Us
At our core, Cox is a technology company that values human relationships. We know people feel most empowered when their work has meaning, when they feel respected and have opportunities to grow. “Career satisfaction” is not enough at Cox — we’re here to help you find balance, live well and achieve your career goals even as they change over time.
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