Cox Automotive is looking to hire an entry-level Software Engineer to create and operate solutions for the data needs of all of Cox Automotive, specifically in the Market Intelligence domain. The goal is to build products that simplify the online listing, advertising, and representation of vehicles.
Requirements
- Python
- RDMS experience: CRUD, Performance, Schema design
- Exposure to managing versioning and branching for project code
- CI/CD pipeline delivery and pipeline automation experience
- Exposure to Terraform, Ansible, and patterns of Infrastructure as Code
- Exposure to non-relational data stores, especially Elasticsearch and DynamoDB
- Exposure to monitoring solutions like Datadog or New Relic
- Exposure to developing test coverage for applications
- Exposure to Git and branching patterns
Responsibilities
- Build solutions primarily using AWS technologies and offerings including SNS and SQS, S3, Lambda Functions, Athena, Aurora, Glue, and Firehose.
- Have end to end ownership of solutions, from participation in clarifying requirements to collaborating on architectural design, technical documentation, programming, manual and automated testing, building, deploying, validating, monitoring, and after-hours rotating operational support.
- Take an active role in identifying and prioritizing opportunities for investment in the technical, non-functional requirements of the system.
- Participate in evaluations of new technologies, platforms, frameworks, and techniques, collaborating with your peers to help shape the direction of the engineering group.
- Create products which deliver data to business units across Cox Automotive such as Kelly Blue Book, Autotrader, and Manheim Auto Auctions.
- Develop APIs with traffic in the hundreds to a few thousand requests per second.
- Develop processes to produce data sets for export.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline and up to 2 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could have a different combination, such as 4 years' experience in a related field
- Exposure to lean methodologies
- Public speaking skills
- Openness to feedback and ability to creatively adapt multiple ideas into a solution
- Ability to take direction at the level of problems to solve and provide options and direction on potential solutions
- Analytical skills and the ability to break complex and challenging problems and defects down until they become actionable
- Familiarity with producing technical writing including high and low level diagramming techniques
- A desire to succeed as a team and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and growth including: Collaboration, Sharing knowledge
- Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
