Senior Mobile Engineer

Cox Automotive; Carmel (IN); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Remote part of the week

Job summary

Cox Automotive, via NextGear Capital, is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to drive native mobile development with a strong Android foundation. You will work closely with product, design, and backend teams to deliver AI-assisted mobile experiences across critical business operations.

The role emphasizes owning discrete features, growing technical depth, and applying modern AI tools throughout the SDLC to accelerate delivery while upholding code quality, security, and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with 4 years' experience.
• AI-Augmented Mindset: Advanced use of AI coding assistants across the SDLC.
• Mobile ecosystem awareness: familiarity with REST APIs and backend services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AI agents to build, test, and deploy native mobile software.
• Contribute to prompt engineering and share tool usage insights with the team.
• Engage in design and development discussions, helping the team conceptualize mobile outcomes.
• Assist with feature estimation in terms of technical input, resources, time, and outcomes.
• Develop and implement unit and system tests with secure coding practices.
• Use observability tools to monitor app health, diagnose issues, and validate production behavior.
• Work with Kotlin/Jetpack Compose standards and backend APIs to ensure cohesive app behavior.
• Document processes to capture best practices and repeatability.
• Update team members and stakeholders on status and concerns.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

AI-augmented development

REST APIs

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude

Cursor

Java/Spring Boot

Job description

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Software Engineer

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel % No

Work Shift Day

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. 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

As an Senior Mobile Engineer within NextGear Capital , you will help build and evolve the mobile experiences that support customers, team members, and critical business operations across one of the automotive industry's leading inventory finance organizations. Working as part of a collaborative product and engineering team, you will deliver modern mobile solutions that improve user experiences, increase operational efficiency, and support the continued digital transformation of the business.

This role is ideal for an mobile engineer who has progressed beyond purely guided execution and is ready to take ownership of discrete features and application components while continuing to grow technical depth and business understanding. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and fellow mobile developers to deliver high-quality native mobile applications that solve meaningful customer and business problems.

At NextGear Capital, AI-assisted software development is becoming a foundational aspect of how engineering teams work. In this role, you'll leverage modern AI tools and development practices throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and enhance collaboration. Success requires strong Android engineering fundamentals, thoughtful application of AI-augmented workflows, and a commitment to maintaining high standards for code quality, security, performance, and user experience.

You’ll have opportunities to contribute across the mobile development lifecycle, participate in technical design discussions, collaborate on product initiatives, and help shape modern engineering practices within an organization actively investing in innovation, automation, and AI-driven transformation.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with AI agents and tools to build, test, and deploy native mobile software across the SDLC, providing proper contextual inputs to improve AI understanding and ownership of output quality
• Contribute to prompt engineering experimentation and share tool usage insights with the team
• Engage in design and development discussions, helping the team conceptualize desired outcomes from an mobile engineering perspective
• Assist with feature/element estimation in terms of technical input, resources, time, and anticipated outcomes
• Develop and implement unit and system tests for integral code paths, ensuring adherence to secure coding practices at all times
• Provide technical support, including troubleshooting and enhancement, for existing and new features within mobile applications and system structures
• Use observability tools (crash reporting, logs, metrics, dashboards) to monitor app health, diagnose issues, and validate that changes behave as expected in production
• Work with fellow team members to ensure mobile design, development, and execution align with and support adjacencies and adhere to established architectural standards, including Kotlin/Jetpack Compose best practices
• Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and error handling affect the mobile app's behavior
• Document processes to capture best practices, applicable methodologies, and repeatability going forward
• Update team members, manager, product owners, and other key stakeholders on status, challenges, and concerns
• Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback

Who You Are:

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field

AI-Augmented Mindset : Advanced, deliberate use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) across the SDLC, including judgment on when AI assistance is and isn't appropriate. Actively experiments with, defines, and leads the team's adoption of AI-Augmented development and practices.

Mobile Ecosystem Awareness: Working knowledge of the systems your native mobile applications integrate with, including REST APIs, backend services (e.g., Java/Spring Boot), authentication patterns, and relational data models. Understands how mobile applications interact with distributed systems and can effective