Principal Engineer

Principal Frontend Engineer Build the Future of Cox Automotive Europe

Location: Manchester - Hybrid

Are you a visionary engineer who loves solving complex problems shaping modern architectures and building products that scale

Do you thrive in greenfield environments where you can influence the entire technical direction

If so this is your chance to help build the Connected Platform that will power Cox Automotive Europe for the next decade.

About Us

Within CAPTG Product Engineering leads the development of highquality cloudnative software products used across Cox Automotive Europe. We embrace modern engineering practices DevOps automation and continuous delivery all underpinned by a strong engineering culture.

Now were building our Connected Platforma brand-new foundational product that will bring every Cox Automotive system together and give our customers a single view of all their assets. This is a onceinageneration opportunity to influence the architecture of a major new platform from scratch.

The Opportunity

As a Principal Engineer Frontend youll be a hands-on technical leader who sets standards drives best practice and shapes the future of our platform.

This isnt just about writing great code (though youll absolutely do that).
Its about:

Designing cutting-edge micro-frontend architectures
Guiding engineering teams with technical excellence
Influencing our tech stack patterns and principles
Partnering with Architecture DevOps Infrastructure Data and Product
Building resilient scalable event-driven systems on AWS
Driving innovation and continuous improvement

Youll work across React GraphQL fullstack JavaScript Event Sourcing AWS and morehelping us craft a platform built for speed scale and future growth.

Our Emerging Tech Stack

Youll help shape thisbut heres where were heading:

• Cloud: AWS (cloud native managed services first)
• IaC: Terraform
• Compute: .NET 7 Linux Docker AWS EKS/ECS
• Workers: AWS Lambda (JavaScript/Python)
• Databases: AWS Aurora (MySQL/Postgres) DynamoDB DocumentDB
• Messaging: Kafka / AWS MSK SNS/SQS EventBridge
• Frontend: React micro-frontends
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Source Control: GitHub Enterprise

A modern stack for a modern platform.

What Youll Lead & Deliver

Technical Leadership

Guide mentor and elevate engineers. Set engineering standards influence culture and lead by example.

Architecture & Design

Work with crossfunctional teams to create scalable secure high-performance systems and micro-frontend architectures.

Hands-on Engineering

Deliver high-quality code across our stackfrontend backend and cloud.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure to optimise AWS environments for reliability resilience and cost.

System Performance & Integration

Tune performance eliminate bottlenecks and integrate new greenfield systems with existing platforms.

Quality & Test Automation

Shape the tools and automation that ensure our code is always ready for production.

Security & Compliance

Embed secure-by-design principles throughout everything we build.

Data & Real-time Streaming

Leverage event-driven patterns to support real-time data flows and decoupled services.

Collaboration & Innovation

Partner with Architects Designers Product Managers Data Engineers and others to drive delivery and continuous improvement.

What Youll Bring

• A strong engineering background across React AWS Terraform SQL/NoSQL and event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable micro-frontend and micro-service systems.
• Deep understanding of event storming domain modelling and modern architectural patterns.
• Experience leading engineering teams in a high-paced continuous delivery environment.
• Demonstrable experience building secure resilient enterprise-scale platforms.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to influence and communicate across all levels.
• The ability to thrive in ambiguity and push forward in a greenfield environment.
• A passion for innovation continuous learning and engineering excellence.

Why Join Us

• Be part of a flagship greenfield build that will define the next 10 years of the business.
• Work with modern technologies and influence the entire engineering direction.
• Shape a platform at scale that impacts customers across Europe.
• Join a collaborative tech organisation with strong leadership and a forward-thinking culture.
• Work remotely with flexibility and autonomy.

Ready to build something big

If youre an engineering leader who loves to innovate inspire teams and deliver cutting-edge technologywe want to meet you.

Apply now and help us build the Connected Platform of the future.

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We do not accept unsolicited CVs sent to the recruitment team or directly to a hiring manager. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited submissions.

Cox Automotive is the worlds 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.