User Interface Engineer Technical Lead

CAI Cox Automotive Corp Svcs., LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 155,877 - 204,840; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Paid holidays

Paid wellness hours

Job summary

CAI Cox Automotive Corp Svcs., LLC in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Lead User Interface Engineer to provide technical leadership and develop state-of-the-art user interfaces. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in software development and a deep understanding of UI technologies, particularly React.

This role involves collaborating with design teams and leading engineering teams to ensure high standards of performance and code quality. Benefits include flexible vacation, paid holidays, and health wellness programs.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing, developing, and implementing scalable software systems.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of Agile software development and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to drive architecture and design.
• Participate in Scrum teams to develop and deploy software.
• Collaborate with UX design to enhance user experience.
• Define relevant technical skills and promote best practices.

Skills

React

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS

Git

Agile methodologies

CI/CD Toolkits

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

Lead User Interface Engineer – Technical Lead at Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC (Atlanta, GA). Provide technical leadership across teams to drive architecture, design, performance, and code quality in alignment with department vision and direction.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to all teams in the domain to drive architecture, design, performance, and code quality.
• Actively participate within Scrum teams to design, develop (write POCs), test, and deploy software using responsive web development principles.
• Assist in defining the department’s role in the overall corporate strategy and set aligned objectives.
• Promote a high level of technical excellence and ensure coding standards, reviews, source control, build, testing, and operations are followed.
• Maintain continual communication with project teams, verifying design-to-build alignment and adjusting solution architecture as needed.
• Define and promote best practices and guidelines for resilience, quality, scalability, and performance.
• Ensure engineers have the training, tools, and resources required to deliver quality software products.
• Anticipate future technology needs, participating in the selection and rollout of new technologies and tools.
• Define relevant technical skills needed, including patterns, security, resilience, programming languages, certifications, performance, software design, and documentation.
• Collaborate with UX design team to achieve the best possible end‑user experience.
• Design and implement React‑based UI components for highly interactive user experiences.
• Define APIs for communication to back‑end services.
• Optimize front‑end applications for speed, scalability, and reuse.
• Lead offshore engineering teams to meet functional requirements, quality, performance, and code stability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent) with 6 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing highly scalable, high‑volume software systems and client‑facing web applications; or Master’s degree with 4 years of experience; or Ph.D. with 1 year of experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in each of the following areas:
• Full software development lifecycle: design, functional and technical requirements, coding, debugging, testing, release, and operational support.
• Realizing applications from conception to implementation and support.
• Agile software development methodologies, modern API and service design, and object‑oriented programming.
• Software development best practices: 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.
• Developing software or information systems, including transactional applications in heterogeneous environments and multi‑user architectures.
• Using CI/CD toolkits (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), building SPAs, Web and RESTful services, and event‑driven architecture.
• Working with UI technologies: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, React, and version control (Git, Stash).

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $155,877 to $204,840, with potential incentive program participation. Benefits include flexible vacation, seven paid holidays, up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually, and additional paid time off (bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, parental leave).

EEO Statement

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship. EOE, including disability/vets.