Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: 100% Remote
Visa Type: C2H OR DIRECT HIRE ONLY
Job Description:
We have the below position with our direct client. We offer excellent benefits including 25 % company match on your 401k contributions and applicable health insurance subsidies upon joining group insurance plans. Background checks (education, criminal, etc.) are required for this position. If interested, please email me your resume to proceed further. Else, if you’d like to forward this opportunity to a colleague or friend, I’d appreciate that very much!
C2H OR DIRECT HIRE ONLY
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER
About Us
The Digital Contracting team at Cox Automotive has an open position for a Lead Software Engineer. We enable consumers, dealers and lenders transact by providing secure, reliable and easy ways to manage the entire life cycle of a digital contract. We take pride in delivering in the quality we deliver. We respect opinion and love discussions that help converge a divergent set of views in the best interests of our customers. We do the right thing – always! Technology is for sure an important consideration, but it is “a” consideration. We are solution focused – solving the problem for our customer and solving it in a secure and sustainable way.
About the position
As a Lead Software Engineer you should drive your scrum team’s technical direction while owning the technical accountability of the team.
You will be able to articulate the vision and actionable plans toward milestones. You will partner with other leads to communicate and coordinate technically across the train.
You will be responsible for coaching and guiding scrum team members on engineering best practices and lead them to become high performing within the team.
While leading the scrum team, you will own the technical challenges and drive the engineering solutions, guiding the technical direction of your scrum team. You will also work to influence the technical direction across teams within the train.
You will strive to own and drive continuous improvement within your scrum team and work to influence this across teams within the train.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will own the quality of the team’s deliverables. You will work with the cross-functional scrum team of engineers and quality analysts to ensure that the end product has quality baked into its core.
An ideal candidate would have at least 7 years of experience and at least 1 year of experience leading engineers on a team
What we are looking for
People Skills
The idea candidate has/forms an opinion he/she can lead with, can justify the direction, influence the team and gain their trust.
Is ready to listen to differing opinions, change opinions based on new learnings, and has the humility and the courage to accept mistakes
Loves spending time with engineers, guiding them in their journey towards becoming well-rounded engineers including, at times, understanding personal motivations and challenges and helping them overcome mental barriers to become fearless coders who take pride in their work
Process
Lives and breathes quality
You embrace the spirit of agile, iterative value delivery
Questions status quo and strive for continuous improvements
Uses a combination of technology, process, and people skills to help teams solve problems
Security is never thought, you think about non-functional requirements at every step
Leads design and code reviews and ensures team’s adherence to standards and guidelines within their scrum team
Works with the Principal Software Engineers in implementing and documenting architectural and design enhancements
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree; preferably in Computer Science or Computer Engineering and 7 years experience OR 11 years relevant experience.
- While our stack is primarily Python, Django, SQL Alchemy, React, Mongo, and Oracle with a spattering of .Net, the ideal candidate is a polyglot for whom programming language is not a barrier
- Has experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines, Docker containers, and blue/green deployments
- Experience in creating and deploying scalable (RESTful) API’s leveraging API gateways
- Experience in breaking a monolith into smaller services is a plus
- Ideally, a full-stack engineer is not limited to programming languages and is one who does not shy away from dabbling in the network, storage, infrastructure, or security
- Has more than 2 years of experience with AWS building, deploying, and monitoring cloud-native applications in AWS
Job Requirements:
- Include on Resume: Citizenship Status, Current Location
- Include in the Notes Section: Expected FTE Salary
- Are you ok with H1B's? Yes
- Do candidates need to be local to interview? No
- If not, will they be required onsite when Cox returns? NO
- Target Years of Exp: 8+
- Top 5 Must-Haves:
- Experienced Team Lead
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Python, Django, and Javascript experience (react.js a plus)
- Experience with developing/growing junior engineers
- Growth potential for Engineering Manager