
CDK Global
Associate Software Engineer
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Job Description
We're hiring early-career engineers to help build the next generation of automotive retail software — the platforms dealerships use to sell, finance, and service vehicles, and consumers use to shop for and buy their cars. You'll develop software the way the industry is heading: partnering with advanced AI systems to design, build, test, and ship production code, with you as the engineer of record. You'll start with AI-accelerated coding and progress toward delegating substantial development tasks to AI under your direction — specifying problems precisely, decomposing work, and rigorously verifying the output. We believe engineers who learn this way from day one will become the strongest AI-era engineers in the industry, and we're investing accordingly: structured mentorship, a defined progression path, and real production ownership early. Because our software runs dealership businesses and consumer purchases, the bar is high: velocity and quality, security designed in, lean code rather than AI-generated bloat, and disciplined AI cost management. This role is for someone with strong fundamentals, high curiosity, and the discipline to verify everything.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 0–2 years of professional experience
- Strong command of at least one programming language and core CS fundamentals — the foundation for evaluating and improving AI-generated code
- Ability to read and reason about code you didn't write: spotting bugs, edge cases, security issues, and design problems
- Learn and understand systems architecture and designs
- Excellent written communication — describing problems and designs precisely is a core skill in this role
- Genuine curiosity about AI-based development, shown through coursework, projects, hackathons, or independent experimentation
- A verification mindset: skepticism of unvalidated output, rigor in testing before trusting, and the instinct that more code is not better code and security cannot be bolted on afterward
- Self-motivated fast learner — the tools will change; your adaptability won't
- Collaborative problem-solver, effective independently and in teams; able to drive issues to timely resolution
Preferred Qualifications
- Substantive personal or academic projects using AI development tools — and the ability to articulate what worked, what failed, and what you learned
- Exposure to version control, code review, automated testing, and CI/CD
- Experience anywhere in a modern full stack (mobile/web front ends, backend APIs, databases, cloud)
- Interest in building software that business operators and consumers depend on
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Entry
Salary Range
$70,000 – $85,000
Location
Portland, OR
Posted
2 days ago
Visa Sponsorship
Available
Country
US