Engineering Opportunities at Cobalt
 

The Cobalt Group is the largest online retailing and e-marketing solutions company for automotive dealers in the U.S. Want to know more about what we do, and what you would be doing here? Read on.

ImageWhat we do for our customers:
 Cobalt creates and hosts websites for nearly half the automotive dealerships in North America, serving tens of millions of pages every month to millions of unique visitors for thousands of our clients' sites. We provide an integrated suite of Internet marketing solutions, including:
  • Generation and distribution of new and used vehicle Internet leads
  • Organic and sponsored search programs
  • Owner and prospect email marketing solutions
  • Call tracking solutions
  • On demand web reporting showing our customers their return on investment (ROI)


"The learning doesn’t stop at Cobalt. We have the opportunity to learn from some of the best mentors in the industry, but also to develop new ideas and set new standards. I’m able to strike out on my own and bring new ideas to the team, while I also have the support of senior data warehouse developers who’ve been doing this longer than me. I have opportunities to dig in and keep growing. It feels like we’re creating something new here, which isn’t something I’ve experienced very often in my career."

-Matt
Search Engine Marketing Technical Analyst


Featured Positions:
What you would work on:
The development teams work in small groups with tech-savvy product managers to innovate new ideas. If you join the Cobalt Engineering team, you would spend your days doing things like:
  • Optimizing dynamic website frameworks with Java and Oracle for speed to run on high-speed Linux clusters
  • Creating compelling, dynamic website designs that convert visitors into buyers
  • Experiment with dynamic site designs that produce very high SEO rankings
  • Prototyping new ideas with the latest open source software like AJAX, spring, hibernate and JSF
  • Tuning MS SQL and .net code to manage millions of keywords on search engines to visualize and optimize keywords and ad copy
  • Analyzing terabyte sized databases to mine consumer behavior and improve the user experience on our sites


Here are some examples of what your future co-workers are doing right now:

ImageOur Work Culture:
The Cobalt work environment is fast-paced, energized, informal and fun, but with a serious focus on quality, customer service, innovation, and an ongoing commitment to excellence.

We highly value respect, integrity and innovation. Respect for one another is what bonds us together in a common goal of excellence. Leveraging each others strengths makes us stronger as a whole. Integrity is what bonds us to our customers. We have been entrusted with a great deal of our customers’ advertising budgets and are committed to their success. Innovation is what bonds us to the future and the virtual explosion of advertising spending on the Internet.

Cobaltians are expected to take risks, challenge themselves and innovate. We’re number one (by a long shot) in our industry, for good reason, and have no plans to stop moving forward.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision for employee and dependents (including domestic partners), life insurance, paid vacation time, personal days, sick leave and paid holidays, 401K with match, employee referral bonuses, stock option plan, subsidized parking, plus a free annual bus pass, onsite gym, and more.

ImageCareer opportunities:
We are always interested in talking with talented developers, engineering managers, product managers program managers and performance and quality experts. We have development offices in Seattle, WA , Redwood City, CA and Bangalore, India.

Get the whole list of great career opportunities here!

"I chose Cobalt because it offered the possibility of making a difference; and I knew I wouldn’t be just a number – like at so many larger companies – I could have an impact. Cobalt’s vision and strategy to continuously build strong relationships with OEMs and their dealers, ensures there are always new opportunities for the employees at Cobalt."
- Deepak
Development Manager