As a Software Engineer II on Cox Automotive's Wholesale Workflow team, you'll build and maintain features on an AI-native platform in a collaborative, cross-functional Agile/Kanban environment. You'll work closely with product owners, senior engineers, and other teams to deliver high-quality software on a best-in-class inspection platform.
Our teams are based primarily in Atlanta, GA. We value versatile, hardworking engineers with diverse skill sets who can adapt to rapid changes in the automotive and technology industries.
Applicants requiring current or future visa sponsorship will not be considered for this role.
Primary Duties and Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design and delivery of product features and system enhancements, incorporating AI-assisted development tools to improve workflow efficiency and development speed.
- Decompose functional and business requirements into well-defined, estimable technical tasks, using both traditional and AI-enabled approaches to assess implementation complexity.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code with comprehensive end-to-end automated tests for business-critical components, leveraging AI to assist with test generation, documentation, and refactoring.
- Maintain quality, performance, observability, security, and specification compliance across assigned development work, using AI-supported tooling to identify vulnerabilities and code quality concerns.
- Collaborate with engineering peers to ensure design and implementation decisions align with architectural standards and long-term platform goals.
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues through systematic debugging, log analysis, and AI-assisted root-cause investigation.
- Participate in modernization efforts by refactoring legacy components and supporting migration initiatives.
- Follow and contribute to team coding standards, development patterns, and engineering best practices, including responsible use of AI in development workflows.
- Document processes, technical designs, and implementation decisions clearly, using AI tools where appropriate to improve consistency and completeness.
- Communicate project status, blockers, and technical considerations clearly to teammates and product stakeholders.
Technologies:
Java, Spring, AWS (ECS, Fargate, EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Kinesis, Terraform, CloudFront, CloudWatch, RDS), Maven, NewRelic, Cucumber, REST, MySQL, GitHub, GitHubActions
USD 89,400.00 - 134,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $89,400.00 - $134,000.00. 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
- Proficient in Java
- Experience with Spring framework
- Experience with AWS services (ECS, Fargate, EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Kinesis, CloudFront, CloudWatch, RDS)
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Build tools: Maven
- Application performance monitoring with NewRelic
- Automated testing with Cucumber and end-to-end automated tests
- RESTful API development
- Relational databases: MySQL
- Version control and CI/CD: GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Experience working in Agile/Kanban teams
- Ability to write maintainable code, perform debugging and log analysis
- Familiarity with observability, security, and specification compliance
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools responsibly
What the Team is Saying
Cox Enterprises Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage spans multiple Aetna plan options with in-network preventive care at 100%, plus mental-health access including at-no-cost virtual therapy for those on the Cox Aetna plan. Added programs like PrudentRx for $0 select specialty meds, Hinge Health, and Calm expand clinical and wellness support.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, fertility benefits via Progyny, adoption assistance with defined reimbursement limits, and childcare/backup care resources demonstrate robust family-forming and caregiving support. Supports such as Milk Stork and Care.com membership extend this coverage to practical needs.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) program is described with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 6% plus an additional 2% automatic contribution for eligible employees, alongside financial coaching and student-loan tools. Administration via Vanguard and clear plan references signal mature retirement support.
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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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