Cox Automotive
London – x2 a week
Team:
Working as part of the Cox Automotive’s Manheim Valuations & Appraisal Development Team designing and developing a suite of manufacturer and dealer facing tools tailored for the UK market.
Role:
As a Developer responsible for delivering as part of an agile team software development solutions, with focus on the delivery of customer centric, scalable and maintainable solutions on time.
They must possess strong Back End experience of the Microsoft .NET stack and/or Front End ReactJS and Redux experience. To have both would be amazing whilst they have to be open to open source solutions.
Must demonstrate a passion for best practices, coding standards, for new technologies and methodologies, but also be a technically agnostic and comfortable at times in a non-technical setting.
Will actively and enthusiastically engage in the wider Cox Automotive group being open to consuming and sharing of knowledge, whilst throughout maintaining a strong customer and Cox Automotive focus.
The role will have regular interactions with account managers and people outside of the IT, and as such excellent communication skills, both written and spoken are required.
Delivery of Quality is a must and you will pride yourself not only on your code but also testing including Dev testing, Automated Unit tests (Front & Back End) and Automated Functional tests.
Should expect up to 10% of time to involve travel to other sites to collaborate with other team members or customers
Key accountabilities include:
Develop and deliver a wide range of high profile, accessible and standards compliant web projects.
Work with colleagues and technical resources to deliver technical solutions to meet business requirements using agreed tools and technologies.
Develop solutions in-line with in-house standards and practices.
Carry out unit, systems and integration testing during the code development.
Produce Technical Documentation for relevant software modules being delivered.
Contribute to the ongoing development of best practices, identification of suitable new tools and system and service improvements.
Liaise as appropriate with internal customers.
Participate in internal agile meetings where appropriate.
Liaise as appropriate with suppliers and partners to integrate 3rd party solutions.
Must be adaptable and flexible to meet client deadlines.
Provide 2nd / 3rd line support and out of hours assistance with support issues where required.
Review and approve technical designs and developer code.
Strive to learn and grow, looking to consume technical knowledge from Domain experts within Cox Automotive Retail Services and in the wider technical community.
Technically support and coach other Developers within the development team where you are seen as a domain expert.
Contribute and attend knowledge shares within the Cox Automotive wider group
Skills and experience required:
Loves technology period.
Passion for best practices and methodologies including one of the following TDD, BDD, CI, CD, ODD and Composition.
Experienced in one or ideally both of the following:
C#.Net, RESTful WebAPIs, Strong Relational Databases & SQL Skills”
JavaScript plus React, CSS, HTMl5 and consuming RESTful WebAPIs”
Experience of AWS or Azure (or similar) and PAAS
Obsessed about code quality and automated test
Experience of the full Software Development Lifecycle
Positive
Solid Communication Skills
Agile Experience
Customer Focussed and loves to lead teams to successful delivery
Loves to mentor and grow more junior developers
Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form.
At least 2.5 years’ commercial software development experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
We work with a carefully selected set of recruitment agencies and we’re not looking to add to our PSL.
We do not accept unsolicited agency CV’s sent to the recruitment team or directly to the hiring manager. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CV’s.
Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive service organisation. We
provide dependable solutions that improve performance and profitability
throughout the vehicle lifecycle to manufacturers, fleets, and retailers.
Our businesses are organised around our customers’ core needs across vehicle
solutions, mobility, remarketing, funding, and retail.