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The Role
Develop and maintain high-throughput eventing infrastructure and integrations on a CRM platform. Implement and test publishers/consumers, message contracts, retries, ordering, and dead-letter handling. Collaborate with product, UX, and other engineering teams, participate in code reviews, deployments, and on-call rotation, and contribute to platform reliability and testing practices.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Software Engineer II role on the Skynet team is focused on the eventing domain within VinSolutions' CRM Shared Apps platform. This is an intermediate-level developer position responsible for developing and maintaining the platform, working under the direction of senior engineers on design and architecture decisions. This role involves hands-on coding, debugging, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to help deliver high-throughput, reliable, and scalable event-driven systems. Engineers at this level are expected to work independently on moderately complex, well-defined tasks, participate fully in coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance, and grow their understanding of event-driven architecture and distributed systems with support and mentorship from the team.
What You'll Do:
Who You Are:
What We Look For:
Technology We Use:
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
What You'll Do:
- Develop and maintain the team's core eventing infrastructure (Eventing 2.0) - the event bus, message contracts, publishers/consumers, and integration points that other CRM teams and downstream systems rely on, working from designs and direction set by senior engineers.
- Diagnose and resolve issues in high-throughput, high-availability eventing pipelines, including message delivery guarantees, ordering, retries, and dead-letter handling.
- Partner with consuming teams and senior engineers to implement event schemas/contracts and support backward-compatible evolution of the eventing platform.
- Write clean, efficient, and testable code using C#, .NET, and related frameworks.
- Contribute to broader Skynet shared services beyond eventing, including WAF protections and dealership-facing dashboard capabilities, as priorities require
- Participate in the software development lifecycle with a primary focus on coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance, while gaining exposure to requirements gathering and design.
- Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers to deliver features aligned with business needs.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
- Contribute to improving development processes and best practices, including test strategy and quality gates for eventing changes.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 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.
- 2-4 years of professional experience in software development.
- Some exposure to event-driven architecture and message-based systems (message queues, pub/sub, event buses), or a strong willingness to learn - this is the team's core focus area, and mentorship will be provided.
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming and design patterns.
- Experience with web technologies and frameworks (ASP.NET, C#, REST APIs).
- Familiarity with relational databases (SQL Server) and cloud platforms (AWS).
- Willingness to learn distributed systems concepts such as eventual consistency, idempotency, message ordering, and failure/retry handling, with support from the team.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, especially in diagnosing issues across asynchronous, multi-service flows.
- Experience with, or strong curiosity to incorporate, AI into development such as Agentic coding and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code).
- Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required.
- Kansas City based candidates only - in office 3 days a week is required.
What We Look For:
- Substantial personal responsibility and autonomy; ability to plan and manage your own work.
- Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Enjoys sharing knowledge with peers and supporting junior engineers through code review and pairing.
- Stays current with emerging technologies and helps the team adopt useful new practices.
- Commitment to ethical AI use and contributing to a positive, inclusive team culture.
- Ability to rapidly absorb new information and apply it effectively to solve complex problems.
Technology We Use:
- Architecture: Event-driven / eventing pipelines (Eventing 2.0), message bus and pub/sub patterns, shared services architecture, Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration
- C#, .NET (including active modernization toward .NET 10), JavaScript
- Messaging/Eventing: Event bus and message queue infrastructure (e.g., AWS SQS/SNS/EventBridge or equivalent), schema/contract management for cross-team event consumers
- Cloud: AWS (including AWS Lambda), CDN infrastructure
- Databases: SQL Server
- DevOps Tools: GitHub Actions, Rally (agile planning)
- Testing: Automated test strategy practices, unit/integration testing frameworks, with particular attention to test coverage for asynchronous eventing flows
- AI Tools: Claude Code
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 2-4 years of professional software development experience
- Exposure to event-driven architecture and message-based systems (message queues, pub/sub, event buses) or willingness to learn
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Experience with web technologies and frameworks (ASP.NET, C#, REST APIs)
- Familiarity with relational databases (SQL Server)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and serverless (AWS Lambda)
- Willingness to learn distributed systems concepts (eventual consistency, idempotency, ordering, retry handling)
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills for diagnosing asynchronous multi-service flows
- Experience with, or strong curiosity about, incorporating AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code)
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship (no OPT/CPT/STEM/visa sponsorship)
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours
- Kansas City-based; in-office 3 days per week required
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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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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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