Sr Software Engineer

Cox Enterprises; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive’s Common Consumer team seeks a Senior Software Engineer focused on eventing within VinSolutions' CRM Shared Apps platform. You’ll develop and maintain scalable event-driven systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role emphasizes hands-on coding, debugging, and strong mentorship, with a cloud-native mindset and AI-augmented development practices. You’ll work on high-impact features, influence architectural decisions, and operate within a Claude Code-native

Qualifications

• Proficiency in building production-grade software at scale.
• Experience with AI-assisted development practices and tooling.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core contributing engineer on a lean team delivering platform capabilities.
• Practice spec-driven development (SDD) with AI-assisted specs and Claude Code-driven implementation.
• Contribute across the consent and communications platform’s evolution from intake to projections and APIs.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code across the stack.

Skills

Software development

AI development

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

The Sr. Software Engineering role on the Skynet team is focused on the eventing domain within VinSolutions' CRM Shared Apps platform. This is an intermediate-level developer position responsible for developing and maintaining the platform, working under the direction of senior engineers on design and architecture decisions. This role involves hands-on coding, debugging, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to help deliver high-throughput, reliable, and scalable event-driven systems. Engineers at this level are expected to work independently on moderately complex, well-defined tasks, participate fully in coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance, and grow their understanding of event-driven architecture and distributed systems with support and mentorship from the team.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who brings strong engineering fundamentals, a cloud-native mindset, and deep fluency with AI-augmented development practices. You will be a key technical contributor on a high-impact team - writing production-grade code, influencing architecture decisions that ripple across every team that adopts our platform, and helping define how modern engineering gets done at Common Consumer.

This is not a role where AI tools are optional or experimental. Our team works end-to-end in a spec-driven and Claude Code-native development model: every feature begins with a clear, well-structured specification; implementation is driven through Claude Code with strong human review at every step; and engineers are fully accountable for the code that ships. We expect Senior Software Engineers to be fluent in this model from day one - authoring specs, directing agents from them, validating and refining their output, and continually raising the team's bar on responsible AI use.

Our Team

Common Consumer sits within Cox Automotive's Consumer organization. We operate as a collaborative platform team that values engineering craft, continuous improvement, and building systems that other Cox Auto engineering teams rely on every day. Near-term, you'll contribute to the Consent and Communications Decisioning platform - an event-sourced system that captures consumer consent at scale, maintains the projections that answer "may we contact this consumer, on this channel, for this purpose, on behalf of this dealer," and enforces TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and DNC compliance across the Cox Auto portfolio. If you thrive in an environment where your contributions are visible across the business, your ideas are heard, and AI tooling is a first-class part of your workflow - you'll fit right in.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a core contributing engineer on a lean team delivering Common Consumer platform capabilities - orchestration services, rules engines, data resources, eventing contracts, and consumer UIs - operating in our spec-driven, Claude Code-native development model end-to-end.
• Practice spec-driven development (SDD) as the team's default operating model: drive epics, features, and stories from clear, well-structured specifications co-authored with AI before implementation begins, with intent, scope, and acceptance criteria locked down upfront. Use Claude Code as the primary implementation surface, directing agents from specs, reviewing and refining their output, and contributing to the team's shared agent context (CLAUDE.md, agent skills, MCP integrations) so the team's AI workflow keeps compounding.
• Contribute across the consent and communications platform's full evolution - from the intake service through the operational event store, the address-keyed and consumer-keyed projection pipelines, the decisioning API, and the supporting subsystems (DNC sync, EBR ingestion, enrichment). Reason about event-sourced design choices - immutability, projection rebuilds, choreography vs. orchestration, multi-region consistency - that shape the platform for years, not just the current iteration.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code across our stack - C