Software Engineer II - 20201

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Engineering / Product Development

Software Engineer II

Individual ContributorHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

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Day

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.

Job Summary:

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.

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 

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

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