About the position
Lead Software Engineer positions offered by Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia). Functionally lead a team that designs and develops robust and scalable analytics processing applications. Ensure the implementation of data access services that operate with maximum throughput and minimum latency. Mentor junior engineers on good software practices. Explore the use of innovative technologies and techniques in the rapidly-evolving world of high-volume data processing, and evaluate them for suitability in our environment. Lead project and product teams to use accepted technologies and patterns, and play a lead role in technical reviews to mentor team and ensure product standards. Participate in the development of new and other team members in completing tasks and provide technical guidance. Design and develop code that consistently adheres to good programming practices. Design, develop, and maintain high volume Java and Scala based data processing jobs using industry standard tools and frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Hive, Impala, Avro, Flume, Oozie, and Sqoop. Design and maintain schemas in our analytics database. Write efficient SQL for loading and querying data. Collaborate with product managers and technologists to solve business problems. Live by Agile (particularly Scrum) principles and collaborate with team members using Agile techniques including test driven development, code reviews, and retrospectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team that designs and develops robust and scalable analytics processing applications.
- Ensure the implementation of data access services with maximum throughput and minimum latency.
- Mentor junior engineers on good software practices.
- Explore innovative technologies and techniques for high-volume data processing.
- Lead project and product teams in using accepted technologies and patterns.
- Participate in technical reviews to mentor team and ensure product standards.
- Design and develop high volume Java and Scala based data processing jobs.
- Design and maintain schemas in the analytics database.
- Write efficient SQL for loading and querying data.
- Collaborate with product managers and technologists to solve business problems.
- Adhere to Agile principles and collaborate using Agile techniques.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science or related field.
- 6 years of experience in backend development with Java or Scala.
- 6 years of experience performing ETL processes.
- 6 years of experience working with AWS.
- 6 years of experience working with databases.
- 6 years of experience performing stream processing.
- Experience with build tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, Jenkins, or Github.
- 1 year of experience performing front end development.
- 1 year of experience monitoring with New Relic or Grafana.
Benefits
- Flexible vacation policy allowing employees to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties.
- Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
- Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for personal or family wellness.
- Additional paid time off for bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and 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).
