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About the Role

As part of Cox Automotive's Consumer & Marketing Solutions Portfolio, our Demand Side Platform team builds real-time bidding and programmatic advertising infrastructure that powers vehicle marketing at scale. We are looking for a Software Engineer I who is eager to learn, grow, and contribute to a high-impact team from day one. This is an early-career role designed for engineers who bring foundational technical skills, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine enthusiasm for modern software development practices — including the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

Contribute to coding tasks by writing unit and system tests, participating in pair programming, and using AI tools to support code generation, documentation, and troubleshooting.
Work within your team to understand and break down epics, features, and stories.
Learn and apply spec-driven development (SDD) practices by participating in specification reviews and contributing to well-structured specs before implementation begins.
Develop foundational skills across the team's core technology stack — including Java, TypeScript, and Python.
Build familiarity with AWS cloud services and begin learning infrastructure-as-code concepts.
Gain exposure to relational and non-relational data stores and in-memory caching concepts.
Learn to troubleshoot issues using traditional debugging techniques and AI-assisted root-cause exploration.
Support platform modernization efforts by assisting with legacy code updates and migration tasks.
Learn and apply secure coding practices and participate in AI-assisted code analysis.
Document processes, patterns, and best practices, leveraging AI tools appropriately.
Share observations and lessons learned from AI-assisted workflows to help refine team practices.
Communicate status, challenges, and dependencies clearly to teammates, engineering managers, and product stakeholders.

Requirements

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 the future.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or 4 years' experience in a related field.
Foundational programming skills in one or more modern languages; exposure to Java, TypeScript, or Python is a plus.
Basic understanding of software development concepts, including version control, testing, debugging, and the software development lifecycle.
Eagerness to learn and grow across a broad technology stack, including cloud platforms, data stores, and infrastructure tooling.
Openness to learning and responsibly adopting AI-assisted development tools.
Familiarity with or willingness to learn Agile and/or Value Stream-based delivery models.
Strong communication and teamwork skills with a willingness to take guidance and grow within a collaborative engineering environment.
Intellectual curiosity, a growth mindset, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
1+ years of hands-on experience developing at an enterprise level (preferred).
Academic or internship exposure to cloud platforms, particularly AWS (preferred).
Coursework or project experience with relational/non-relational databases, caching, or distributed systems concepts (preferred).
Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization, or infrastructure-as-code concepts (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly (preferred).
Must clear a pre-employment drug test (with exceptions for marijuana).

Skills

Java
TypeScript
Python
AWS
Terraform
AWS CDK
SQL
NoSQL
Redis
Valkey
GitHub Copilot
Claude Code
Agile
SAFe Agile

Location

Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Burlington, VT

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Individual Contributor
Early-career
1+ years of hands-on experience developing at an enterprise level

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
4 years' experience in a related field

Salary/Compensations

$74,000.00 - $111,000.00

Benefits

Flexible vacation with pay
Seven paid holidays
Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually
Bereavement leave
Time off to vote
Jury duty leave
Volunteer time off
Military leave
Parental leave
Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
Retirement planning (401(k))
Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

About the Company

Cox Automotive's Consumer & Marketing Solutions Portfolio builds real-time bidding and programmatic advertising infrastructure that powers vehicle marketing at scale.
Our Demand Side Platform team operates at the intersection of high-throughput data systems, real-time decisioning, and cloud infrastructure.
We are a collaborative team that values engineering craft, continuous improvement, and building systems that scale.
Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars.
Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim.
Cox brings together the world’s greatest minds to help breathe life into new possibilities – and drive innovation for a better future.
Our people love technology – and they love making a difference.
Every day they dedicate themselves to a huge range of exciting projects, contributing to the Cox vision around the globe.

Equal Opportunity

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.
EOE, including disability/vets