As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading, growing, and developing a team of innovative Software Engineers in designing, implementing, and delivering high-quality software products. To be successful in this role, you must be able to lead effectively in a fluid, fast-paced agile environment. This position requires strong technical, design, communication, and collaboration skills. We have aggressive goals over the next couple of years and are looking for candidates with a passion for solving large scale problems and a can-do attitude!

Cox Automotive’s, Inventory Management organization is adding an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead our software engineering team in Austin, TX. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading, growing, and developing a team of innovative Software Engineers in designing, implementing, and delivering high-quality software products. To be successful in this role, you must be able to lead effectively in a fluid, fast-paced agile environment. This position requires strong technical, design, communication, and collaboration skills. We have aggressive goals over the next couple of years and are looking for candidates with a passion for solving large scale problems and a can-do attitude!

Your Role

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading, growing, and developing a team of innovative Software Engineers in designing, implementing, and delivering high-quality software products. To be successful in this role, you must be able to lead effectively in a fluid, fast-paced agile environment. This position requires strong technical, design, communication, and collaboration skills. We have aggressive goals over the next couple of years and are looking for candidates with a passion for solving large scale problems and a can-do attitude!

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers in the design, development, and delivery of scalable applications and services using C# and .NET technologies.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, contributing to the critical areas of the codebase in C# when needed, while fostering an environment of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Leads a team to provide high-quality, maintainable software that meets business and technology needs.
• Must be able to influence other software and IT managers to design and build solutions that meet our needs.
• Manage career progression for team members, including hiring, performance reviews, salary decisions, mentoring, coaching, and all duties normally associated with a hiring manager.
• Represent your team in strategy and planning meetings.
• Work with your team to plan, design, implement and operationalize innovations and improvements to existing programs.
• Work with your team to continually improve their processes and develop best practices for agile development that delivers value to our stakeholders.
• Respond quickly and effectively to production issues and taking responsibility for seeing those issues through resolution.
• Stay current with changes in the technical area of expertise.
• Share knowledge by effectively documenting plans, decisions, and task ownership.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year experience in a related field; or 18 years’ experience in a related field.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience architecting large software solutions.
• 3+ years in managing direct reports.
• Demonstrate experience executing Agile methods for software product development.
• Experience with a wide range of software architectures, platforms, and tools including:
• REST APIs, AWS, CI/CD, Design patterns, etc.
• Very strong business analysis, system analysis, or product analysis skills.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.
• Excellent planning and prioritization skills with the ability to multitask and adapt to change.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

What We Look For

• High energy, confident, ambitious, and self-motivated individual with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to lead a team to turn high-level requirements into a working system through iterative development.
• Servant leadership - we want you to empower your team members and remove roadblocks for them.
• Desire to mentor and help our team members grow.
• Strong focus on delivering high quality, scalable products.
• Change Agent – someone who possesses a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo and drives change to continuously improve operational efficiency.