[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @AutoNation

Role Description

The Technical Lead is responsible for the overall design, implementation, and quality of the code the team produces across one or more projects. The Technical Lead partners with the IT leadership, architecture, and development staff to establish vision, strategy, and road maps that align with business strategies and organizational priorities. The Technical Lead must collaborate with peers and leadership to leverage knowledge and solutions across the organization.

The Technical Lead of Application Development is a position within a development group focused on building our core sales and CRM platform. The Technical Lead is accountable for daily status on tech design, development, and resource management.

• Works with delivery leads to staff projects with associates, contractors, and/or third-party teams.
• Collaborates with project managers on planning and estimates.
• Partners with architecture and delivery leads on solution blueprints.
• Coordinates with QA and delivery leads on functional testing, integration testing, performance testing, and triaging defects.
• Facilitates service introduction on hand-off to the application operations team.

The Technical Lead is focused on leading the delivery of best-in-class systems to support AutoNation’s business lines across all channels, including customer and associate-facing applications built on AWS using Microservices Architecture and other AWS components that integrate with existing on-prem AutoNation systems and databases.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in Java software development demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility.
• Experience leading a team of 3 or more software developers.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Experience producing solution designs for large-scale, highly available, mission-critical systems.
• Proficient in designing, creating, and consuming Web Services (REST, JSON, OAuth), multi-tier or microservice applications in Java and large-scale database applications.
• Strong experience in SQL and data modeling.
• Demonstrate sound architecture skills and broad experience designing applications.
• Ability to communicate complex technical design concepts and translate them into non-technical business solutions.
• Able to communicate well with all levels in the organization and must be comfortable as a primary contact to internal and external customers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and other software development methodologies.

Requirements

• Experience with developing within a Cloud environment with good knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS is a plus.
• Experience with ecommerce, retail, automotive, and financing is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and 401k matching.
• Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with insurance plans (health, dental, vision) and maternity benefits.
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