Manager, Software Engineering

Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: North Hills, NY
Company: Dealertrack (a Cox Automotive brand)
About the Role:
Dealertrack is seeking a passionate and technically adept Engineering Manager to lead our Networks and Platform engineering team. This role is ideal for a leader who thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment and is excited about building scalable web applications and APIs that power the future of automotive financing. As Cox Automotive evolves toward AI-assisted, spec-driven development practices, you will play a key role in guiding your team through this transformation-championing specification quality, enabling cross-team collaboration, and ensuring AI-generated code meets our engineering standards.
Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Development
• Build and lead a high-performing, cross-functional Scrum team.
• Mentor and coach engineers to grow their technical and professional skills.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.
• Technical Execution
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle, from planning to deployment and maintenance.
• Ensure high-quality design and implementation of scalable web applications and APIs.
• Advocate for and implement best practices in cloud-native development using AWS.
• Champion spec-driven development workflows, ensuring that detailed Change Specs are collaboratively authored before code generation begins.
• Establish and maintain component constitutions-the documented standards, patterns, and rules that guide AI-assisted code generation for your team's repositories.
• Collaboration & Communication
• Partner with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to align on goals, timelines, and deliverables.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Innovation & Learning
• Stay current with emerging technologies in AI-assisted development, cloud computing, and spec-driven delivery models.
• Encourage experimentation with AI coding tools and workflows; share learnings across teams rather than allowing patterns to diverge.
• Promote a learning culture within the team and across the Release Train, including cross-team knowledge sharing of effective specifications and anti-patterns.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in:
• AWS cloud services
• API design and web application architecture
• Modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and DevOps practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Comfort guiding teams through AI-assisted development practices, including reviewing AI-generated code and implementation plans for quality and compliance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the automotive finance or risk management domain.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) and spec-driven or AI-assisted development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience creating or governing component-level documentation artifacts (constitutions, architecture overviews, operational runbooks) that enable cross-team portability.

Why Dealertrack?
At Dealertrack, you'll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team that's transforming the way vehicles are financed. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a culture that values innovation, learning, and work-life balance.
USD 147,200.00 - 245,300.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $147,200.00 - $245,300.00. 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