Event-Driven Software Engineer II

Cox Automotive Inc.; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 89,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer II for the Skynet team in the Kansas City area. You will develop and maintain eventing infrastructure, work on high-availability pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable event-driven solutions using C#, .NET, and AWS.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, testing, deployment, and mentoring from senior engineers, with opportunities to learn distributed systems and participate in broader shared services tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years' experience.
• 2-4 years of professional software development experience.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures or willingness to learn.
• Proficiency in OO programming and design patterns.
• Experience with web tech and frameworks (ASP.NET, C#, REST).
• Familiarity with SQL Server and AWS cloud platforms.
• Willingness to learn distributed systems concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the core Eventing 2.0 infrastructure and integration points.
• Diagnose and resolve issues in high-throughput eventing pipelines.
• Collaborate to implement event schemas and backward-compatible evolution.
• Write clean, efficient, testable C#/.NET code.
• Contribute to broader Skynet services and WAF-related work as needed.
• Participate in coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance lifecycle.
• Collaborate with product and UX to deliver business-aligned features.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Improve development processes and testing strategies for eventing.

Skills

C#

REST APIs

ASP.NET

Object-oriented programming

AWS

SQL Server

Event-driven architecture

Unit testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS SQS/SNS/EventBridge

.NET 10

Job description

Cox Automotive Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer II for the Skynet team in the Kansas City area. You will develop and maintain eventing infrastructure, work on high-availability pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable event-driven solutions using C#, .NET, and AWS.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, testing, deployment, and mentoring from senior engineers, with opportunities to learn distributed systems and participate in broader shared services tasks.