CDK Global

CDK Global

Associate Software Engineer

Portland, ORPosted 2 days ago$70,000 – $85,000
Full TimeEntryVisa SponsorshipUS

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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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Job Details

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