Sr Lead Software Engineer

Company Cox Automotive - USA Job Family Group Engineering / Product Development Job Profile Sr Lead Software Engineer Management Level Sr Manager - Non People Leader Flexible Work Option Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week Travel % Yes, 5% of the time Work Shift Day Compensation Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $148,500.00 - $247,500.00. 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. Job Description Sr Lead Software Engineer - Xtime Leads the design, development, and evolution of secure, scalable software and cloud infrastructure supporting the Xtime Catalog & Quoting (SPI ↔ SQS) product family — the pricing nervous system of the Xtime fixed-operations platform. Works cross-functionally to understand business requirements, architecture, and technology direction, evaluate alternative approaches, and ensure software and systems are designed accordingly. Operates across the XMM family of services (Service Pricing Integration — Catalog) and the Service Quoting Service (SQS) family — a Java / Spring Boot stack on AWS EKS with Oracle (legacy) and Aurora-style RDS persistence, S3 cache, Parquet conversion for high-throughput pricing lookups, and Terraform / Terragrunt-managed infrastructure. Incorporates modern concepts and practices to facilitate system functionality, scalability, resilience, and security, as well as ease-of-use (developer and user experience). Applies agile and spec-driven development principles with a focus on delivering business value, collaboration, continuous improvement, and sustainability, in line with the Xtime Engineering Constitution. Primary Duties / Key Responsibilities Leverages subject-matter expertise to lead the design and development of complex, technically challenging efforts across major program and product areas. Defines architectural standards, tools, and methodologies to ensure technical consistency, scalability, and quality across the company's functional applications. Identifies, evaluates, and applies new technologies to improve systems overall. Collaborates with senior members of development and functional departments to share knowledge and identify opportunities to simplify and integrate products. Works with management on the development of Software Engineering governance and performance-management processes. Helps define, develop, and deliver training and education for systems users, Software Engineering colleagues, allied groups, and other stakeholders. Acts as senior individual-contributor engineering owner across the Catalog (XMM / SPI) and Service Quoting Service (SQS) surfaces — including APIs, data pipelines, UI components, and supporting infrastructure. Recognizes Catalog as the load-bearing pricing source for Quoting, Schedule, Engage, Inspect, and external DMS providers, and evaluates changes with awareness of downstream impact and blast radius. Leads brownfield modernization efforts across the Catalog and Quoting estate, including Oracle → Aurora PostgreSQL migration paths, monolith decomposition, Parquet-cache strategy, and AI-assisted parts lookup and ACES record mapping. Designs and evolves DMS-partner integrations, including contract negotiation support, SLA-aware client design, circuit breakers, and per-partner incident-response playbooks. Partners with the Synchronizers team on contract evolution and with the Catalog data-pipeline team on parquet-conversion and DDS publishing changes. Owns engineering observability and resiliency for assigned services, including New Relic APM dashboards, Splunk structured JSON logging with x-correlation-id propagation, PagerDuty on-call rotations, Production Readiness Review (PRR) artifacts, game-day rehearsals, and tenant-scoped (per-dealer) debugging aligned to a sharded architecture. Owns spec-driven development (SDD) design, specification, and task artifacts. Mentors junior-level engineers; raises the bar on code review, design review, and PRR rigor; partners with Architecture, QE, DBA (mandatory review for production schema changes), and Product on cross-domain decisions. Contributes senior IC perspective to roadmap planning, including VIN-specific pricing integration into DMS-partner workflows, Class 4–8 vehicle support, AI-generated parts lists and repair workflows, integrated shop-supply and tax estimation, and continued reduction of manual onboarding cost for Catalog setup. Minimum Requirements Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years' experience in a related field; or a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years' experience; a PhD and 3 years' experience in a related field; or 16 years' experience in a related field with no degree. 8+ years of Java / Spring Boot experience at scale (Spring Boot 3.x); demonstrated ownership of high-throughput backend services in production. 4+ years of AWS cloud-native engineering using: EKS, ECR, S3, IAM least-privilege, AWS Secrets Manager, Terraform / Terragrunt IaC with tag-pinned module refs and no manual console changes. Advanced skills in analytical thinking, requirements analysis, software installation and support, system and technology integration, and technical troubleshooting. Strong collaboration, innovation, and execution skills, with the ability to influence across teams. Datastore breadth: Oracle (legacy XMM) plus Aurora-style RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL (target state); S3 cache and Parquet conversion for high-throughput pricing lookups. API design discipline: URL-path versioning, X-Correlation-Id propagation, and third-party APIs published via the Cox API Storefront; JUnit 5 + Mockito and strong code coverage practices. Observability and on-call: New Relic APM, Splunk structured JSON logging,