User Interface Engineer Technical Lead

Lead User Interface Engineer

Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC

User Interface Engineer Technical Lead positions offered by Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia). Provide technical leadership to all teams in the domain to drive architecture, design, performance and code quality in alignment with vision and direction set for the department/across departments. Actively participate within the Scrum teams to design, develop (write POCs), test and deploy software. Use responsive web development principles and best practices. Assist in determining the role of the department in the overall corporate strategy and set objectives that are aligned with this role. Promote and ensure a high level of technical excellence in our IT development staff that is in keeping with a high-performing organization. Maintain continual communication with assigned project teams, verifying what was designed was built and adjusting the solution architecture as appropriate throughout the project. Help define and promote best practices and guidelines to ensure continuous improvement in resilience, quality, scalability and performance within the engineering staff. Ensure that standards are followed for technical excellence, including relevant certifications. Help ensure Engineers have the relevant training and tools required to perform optimally within a high-performing organization and to deliver quality software products. Anticipate future technology needs based on business requirements and participate in the selection and roll out of new technologies and tools. Help to define relevant technical skills needed, including patterns, security, resilience, programming languages, certifications, performance, software design, documentation, etc. Collaborate with UX design team to drive for the best possible end-user experience. Design and implement React based UI components for highly interactive user experience. Drive API definition for communication to back-end. Optimize front-end applications for speed, scalability and reuse. Lead offshore engineering teams to ensure satisfaction of functional requirements, minimum quality and performance, and code stability.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major internet applications and systems.

• Working through the full software development lifecycle, including design, functional and technical requirements, coding, debugging, testing, release, and operational support;
• Realizing applications from conception and design to implementation and support;
• Using agile software development methodologies, modern API and service design, and object-oriented programming methodologies;
• Following software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations;
• Communicating technical issues to technical, non-technical, and management groups and presenting to senior leadership and team members;
• Developing software or information systems, including developing transactional applications in heterogeneous environments and architectures for multi-user systems;
• Using CI/CD toolkits, including Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and building Single Page Applications (SPA), Web and RESTful services, and event-driven architecture; and
• Working with UI technologies HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and REACT, and using version control, including Git and Stash.

• In lieu of a bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience as stated, employer will accept a master's or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience as stated, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated.
• Position reports to Atlanta, GA office. Telecommuting permitted in accordance with company policy, but must live within commuting distance of stated office.
• Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently.

Compensation includes a base salary of $155,877 to $204,840. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.