Description

We are looking for an entry-level Software Engineer in the Kansas City area!

As a  Software Engineer I on the Marketing and Advertising Release Train, you will work in a collaborative agile team environment that encourages you to perform at your best and challenges you to engineer elegant solutions for complex business needs. You will apply your knowledge of object-oriented design with appropriate use of best practices, design patterns, and frameworks, with an understanding of application performance and maintainability to deliver real product value.

Our Teams:

Cox Automotive engineering has been driving the digital future of the automotive retail industry. Despite our growth, we stay true to our relentlessly agile and adaptable roots. The result is an award-winning culture in which everyone is approachable, ideas are judged on their merits, and healthy, empowered people drive transformative technology.

Technologies: 

C#, .Net, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, CDK, CloudFront, CloudWatch, RDS, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy), NewRelic/DataDog/SumoLogic, Cucumber, REST, MySQL, Git

Your Role:
• Develop features for our Automotive Marketing Platform to keep our customers marketing to their customers at their best
• Design, build and support cloud-native applications that serve our marketing stakeholders
• Establish patterns for our organization that deliver our software products at scale with observability, performance and security
• Design and build service-oriented architecture solutions, constructing and managing services published to both internal and external consumers, integrating with complex database and third-party components
• Provide ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products
• Engage with your agile scrum team to build a culture of passion, trust and creativity
• Learn and leverage the digital marketing domain to change the way the world buys, sells and uses cars

Qualifications:
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field. Advanced technical degree and/or related training a plus
• Experience designing and implementing applications with highly optimized and scalable architectures
• Proven ability to work independently; designing, developing and deploying solutions, and to deliver projects on time with minimal direction
• Object-oriented design experience, including working knowledge of the .Net framework and applied use of design patterns
• Strong database development skills including a solid understanding of database technologies, and logical and physical data modeling
• Experience implementing automated unit tests, observability tools (monitoring, alerting)
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies, AWS preferred
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies desired
• Knowledge of digital marketing is a plus

Responsibilities

• As a  Software Engineer I on the Marketing and Advertising Release Train, you will work in a collaborative agile team environment that encourages you to perform at your best and challenges you to engineer elegant solutions for complex business needs
• You will apply your knowledge of object-oriented design with appropriate use of best practices, design patterns, and frameworks, with an understanding of application performance and maintainability to deliver real product value
• Develop features for our Automotive Marketing Platform to keep our customers marketing to their customers at their best
• Design, build and support cloud-native applications that serve our marketing stakeholders
• Establish patterns for our organization that deliver our software products at scale with observability, performance and security
• Design and build service-oriented architecture solutions, constructing and managing services published to both internal and external consumers, integrating with complex database and third-party components
• Provide ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products
• Engage with your agile scrum team to build a culture of passion, trust and creativity
• Learn and leverage the digital marketing domain to change the way the world buys, sells and uses cars

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience designing and implementing applications with highly optimized and scalable architectures
• Proven ability to work independently; designing, developing and deploying solutions, and to deliver projects on time with minimal direction
• Object-oriented design experience, including working knowledge of the .Net framework and applied use of design patterns
• Strong database development skills including a solid understanding of database technologies, and logical and physical data modeling
• Experience implementing automated unit tests, observability tools (monitoring, alerting)