User Interface Engineer I
Irvine, CA

Job Description

The selected User Interface Engineer is responsible for planning, designing, and producing websites and other screen based digital media solutions. The User Interface Engineer also plays a role in providing advice and guidance, and monitoring emerging trends.

Agile Planning

* Works with Product Management to understand the challenges that end users face and partner with customers to design viable front-end solutions.
* Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning for front-end solutions.

Product Development

* Designs, creates, develops, and maintains dynamic user interface templates for multiple applications, complete with page-level unit testing
* Architects and implements front-end frameworks to increase development speed-to-market.
* Develops dynamic web pages for high-volume, multi-tier, architecture-based applications.
* 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 user interface engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.

Emerging Technology Monitoring

* Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new web development 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 front-end technology stacks (e.g. HTML/XHTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue)
* Working experience designing and developing Content Management Systems
* Working experience with user interface design patterns and visual design elements
* Working experience with AWS and cloud technologies
* Working experience with application lifecycle methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative)
* Working experience in analysis, design and programming
* Working experience with appropriate database technology
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
* Scrum Developer Certification or equivalent
* 0-2 years of working experience

About Cox Automotive

Cox Automotive Inc. makes buying, selling and owning cars easier for everyone, while also enabling mobility services. The global company's 34,000-plus team members and family of brands, including Autotrader®, Clutch Technologies, Dealer.com®, Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, NextGear Capital®, VinSolutions®, vAuto® and Xtime®, are passionate about helping millions of car shoppers, tens of thousands of auto dealer clients across five continents and many others throughout the automotive industry thrive for generations to come. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately-owned, Atlanta-based company with revenues exceeding $20 billion. www.coxautoinc.com

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