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Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Meridian Hills, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Speedway, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Carmel, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Indianapolis, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Sheridan, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Clermont, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Cumberland, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

Cox Automotive

Senior Mobile Engineer

Zionsville, IN · On-site

$101K - $169K/yr

Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and ... Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced ...

A.C. Coy

Sr. Java Developer (Remote)

Indianapolis, IN · Remote

$54.75 - $69.75/hr

This will be a 100% remote Contract-to-Hire position. * Must be a US Citizen. * SELECTED CANDIDATES ... Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the full stack (front-end, back-end, cloud). * Collaborate ...

A.C. Coy

Sr. Java Developer (Remote)

Indianapolis, IN · Remote

$54.75 - $69.75/hr

This will be a 100% remote Contract-to-Hire position. * Must be a US Citizen. * SELECTED CANDIDATES ... Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the full stack (front-end, back-end, cloud). * Collaborate ...

A.C. Coy

Sr. Java Developer (Remote)

Indianapolis, IN · On-site +1

$54.75 - $69.75/hr

This will be a 100% remote Contract-to-Hire position. * Must be a US Citizen. * SELECTED CANDIDATES ... Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the full stack (front-end, back-end, cloud). * Collaborate ...

Nastech Global

Senior Business Analyst

Indianapolis, IN · On-site

$88K - $114K/yr

Contract W2 * Work through complex issues that include creating test scenarios, test cases, and ... Research and resolve front-end/user and back-end/system problems by diagnosing the root cause ...

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Senior Mobile Engineer

Meridian Hills, IN • On-site

Cox Automotive
Automobile Dealers • 5 - 10K employees
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$101K - $169K/yr

Full-time

PTO

Posted 6 days ago

Cox Automotive rating

7.7

Company rating: 7.7 out of 10

Based on 144 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

104th of 154 rated financial services

Job description

As an Senior Mobile Engineer within NextGear Capital, you will help build and evolve the mobile experiences that support customers, team members, and critical business operations across one of the automotive industry's leading inventory finance organizations. Working as part of a collaborative product and engineering team, you will deliver modern mobile solutions that improve user experiences, increase operational efficiency, and support the continued digital transformation of the business.
This role is ideal for an mobile engineer who has progressed beyond purely guided execution and is ready to take ownership of discrete features and application components while continuing to grow technical depth and business understanding. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and fellow mobile developers to deliver high-quality native mobile applications that solve meaningful customer and business problems.
At NextGear Capital, AI-assisted software development is becoming a foundational aspect of how engineering teams work. In this role, you'll leverage modern AI tools and development practices throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and enhance collaboration. Success requires strong Android engineering fundamentals, thoughtful application of AI-augmented workflows, and a commitment to maintaining high standards for code quality, security, performance, and user experience.
You'll have opportunities to contribute across the mobile development lifecycle, participate in technical design discussions, collaborate on product initiatives, and help shape modern engineering practices within an organization actively investing in innovation, automation, and AI-driven transformation.
What You'll Do:
  • Collaborate with AI agents and tools to build, test, and deploy native mobile software across the SDLC, providing proper contextual inputs to improve AI understanding and ownership of output quality
  • Contribute to prompt engineering experimentation and share tool usage insights with the team
  • Engage in design and development discussions, helping the team conceptualize desired outcomes from an mobile engineering perspective
  • Assist with feature/element estimation in terms of technical input, resources, time, and anticipated outcomes
  • Develop and implement unit and system tests for integral code paths, ensuring adherence to secure coding practices at all times
  • Provide technical support, including troubleshooting and enhancement, for existing and new features within mobile applications and system structures
  • Use observability tools (crash reporting, logs, metrics, dashboards) to monitor app health, diagnose issues, and validate that changes behave as expected in production
  • Work with fellow team members to ensure mobile design, development, and execution align with and support adjacencies and adhere to established architectural standards, including Kotlin/Jetpack Compose best practices
  • Understand and work confidently against backend APIs, including how endpoints, data contracts, and error handling affect the mobile app's behavior
  • Document processes to capture best practices, applicable methodologies, and repeatability going forward
  • Update team members, manager, product owners, and other key stakeholders on status, challenges, and concerns
  • Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback

Who You Are:
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field
  • AI-Augmented Mindset: Advanced, deliberate use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) across the SDLC, including judgment on when AI assistance is and isn't appropriate. Actively experiments with, defines, and leads the team's adoption of AI-Augmented development and practices.
  • Mobile Ecosystem Awareness: Working knowledge of the systems your native mobile applications integrate with, including REST APIs, backend services (e.g., Java/Spring Boot), authentication patterns, and relational data models. Understands how mobile applications interact with distributed systems and can effectively troubleshoot issues across integration points, while maintaining depth in native mobile development as their primary area of expertise
  • Problem Solving: Analytical and architectural judgment. Resolves complex, ambiguous problems and anticipates downstream impacts, risks, and dependencies
  • Native Mobile Development: Demonstrated experience building native mobile applications using Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and/or iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) technologies. Familiarity with modern mobile architecture patterns, platform development tools, testing frameworks, and performance optimization techniques
  • Version Control & Collaboration: Fluent with Git workflows and comfortable guiding others on branching, review, and collaborative development practices
  • Observability: Strong working knowledge of logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, dashboards, alerts), with the ability to establish or improve observability practices for a system rather than just consume them
  • Communication & Influence: Clearly communicates technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to management and project team members
  • This role requires working in the office three days per week in Carmel, Indiana.

OUTCOMES
  • Working Software, Every Sprint: Produce working software each sprint that meets the definition of done, delivers expected value, and stays within constraints defined by engineering leadership, with solution complexity broadly understood well enough to drive consistent, meaningful estimates across the team
  • AI Fluency & Standards: Drive AI-augmented workflows and standards (coding, review, ethical use) that measurably improve team speed and quality. Mentor others in adopting them
  • Quality Solutions: Deliver maintainable, testable, and performant software that leverages existing patterns, is sufficiently abstract, and meets client needs across adjacent systems
  • Craft Growth & Mentorship: Continue pursuing engineering craft mastery while actively growing the skills of less experienced teammates
  • Plan Transparency: Ensure changes in direction that affect time, effort, cost, or scope are surfaced to the team and above with urgency that maximizes the team's ability to replan or pivot
  • Initiative: Identify opportunities for automation, improvement, or learning and drive them independently

USD 101,500.00 - 169,100.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets

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At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today! Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today! Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page . Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship. Statement to ALL Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations: Cox accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox employees, Cox hiring manager, or send to any Cox facility. Cox is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.

Industry

Automobile dealers and technology, communication and media

Company size

5,001 - 10,000 Employees

Headquarters location

Atlanta, GA, US

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