Primary Location: 224 Valley Creek Blvd, Exton, PA, USA Division: Cox Automotive Job Level: Individual Contributor Travel: No Schedule: Full-time Shift: Day Job Requisition Number: 202001114 The Lead Software Engineer writes and maintains code within applications and systems to implement capabilities and features, improve performance and maintainability, while reducing technical debt -- in alignment with product and technology roadmaps. The Lead Software Engineer will play a role in Agile planning, providing advice and guidance, and monitoring emerging trends. Agile Planning Works with Product Management to understand the challenges that customers and end users face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions Recommends viable solutions to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt Foresees capacity requirements for component usage and identifies limitations Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning Product Development Contributes to product and solution designs to address critical issues and complex problems Builds software applications across multiple platforms in response to the needs of stakeholders Understands technical architecture and writes software and automated tests that are aligned with agreed upon standards Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary Application Support Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products Advice and Guidance Actively works with less experienced software engineers providing technical guidance and oversight Emerging Technology Monitoring Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new software technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization Qualifications:

Working
experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable,
high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications,
and major Internet-oriented applications and systems Working
experience realizing applications from conception and design, to implementation
and support Working
experience in coding within multiple technology stacks (e.g. Front-end: browser
and device typically using common client-side technologies HTML, CSS,
JavaScript; Back-end: server, application, database using languages like PHP,
Python, Ruby) Working
experience with application lifecycle methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative) Working
experience in analysis, design and programming Working
experience with appropriate database technology

Desirable:

Bachelor s
degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of
industry related professional experience and education Scrum
Developer Certification or equivalent 8 10
years of working experience

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