Senior Software Engineer, The Electric Car Scheme
£70-90k
1-2 days a week in office (Hayes, London)
'Cycle to Work Scheme' for electric cars
Open for applications
'Cycle to Work Scheme' for electric cars
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£70-90k
1-2 days a week in office (Hayes, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To lead the transition towards Net Zero here in the UK and abroad.
Role
Who you are
- 5 + years building web applications in a corporate or startup environment
- Primarily competent in backend development, but happy to work across the entire stack
- High level of autonomy, self-motivated, takes initiative
- Able to communicate technical concepts in a way that non-technical people can understand
- Confident implementing effective testing strategies for web application software
- Professional and responsible approach to application development e.g. no downtime deployments, knowing what could break and monitoring releases once they have gone out
- (Bonus) applied technical patterns / ways of working to improve code quality / productivity
- Experience working with Ruby, Rails, React and Typescript.
What the job involves
- Evolving and adapting our web application using Ruby, Rails, React, Typescript. We have a small tech team (5 developers and CTO) so there's opportunity to have a big impact
- Working closely with stakeholders to develop a deep understanding of the business
- Helping to determine our technology roadmap / priorities alongside your other team members, key stakeholders and the leadership team
- A focus on building out a highly automated, reliable platform for our customers, as well as our internal employees
- Comfortable tackling ambiguous or poorly defined problems and proposing a suitable approach or solution
- As we grow, the possibility to mentor junior members of the team
Application process
- 1. Apply on Otta
- 2. Screening call with our Senior Talent Partner
- 3. Video call with our CTO (Alex)
- 4. Technical task at our offices and meet the team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
New cars and vans powered wholly by petrol and diesel will not be sold in the UK from 2030. Because of this, there is expected to be a huge shift in the market towards electric vehicles. In 2021, hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles accounted for just 18.5% of car registrations, so there is a long way to go.
From 6th April 2020 the UK government introduced huge tax savings for people who lease an electric vehicle through their company. The Electric Car Scheme makes it easy for people to access these tax savings through salary sacrifice, essentially offering the Cycle-to-Work Scheme - but for electric cars.
Anyone looking to lease an electric car can use The Electric Car Scheme to get the tax savings. That’s 32%-62% off of the cost of the car lease, which makes it much more attractive than petrol or diesel cars. The Electric Car Scheme has great tailwinds given the shift, and will be moving fast to try and capitalise on it.
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Employee endorsements
Supportive management
"My manager is very supportive. He cares about my career development and what's going on in my life outside work. There are frequently check-ins..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$3.3m
SEED
Oct 2021
$1.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $4.7m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working with 2 days in the office
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Add 1 day holiday per year service + buy / sell up to 5 days each year
- Flexible work policy with options to take into account family care
- Best in class Family Friendly Leave and Pay
- For example, our Maternity leave (in year 1) is 6 weeks full pay and 6 weeks half pay. This increases to 12 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay after year 1
- Use our own scheme to lease a vehicle through salary sacrifice and save 40-70% to drive a brand new electric car
- £500 pa. personal development budget
- Pension
- Equity options - own a part of the business
- Free lunch every Wednesday
- Vitality healthcare
- £100 home office budget
Company values
- One Team
- Reach for the Stars
- Care for the customer (and each other)
- Equal in opportunity
- Progression - everyone deserves to be recognised and we believe being in a start up that offers a great opportunity to fast track your career!
Company HQ
Hayes, UK
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Leadership
Tom Eilon
(COO)Prior to The Electric Car Scheme, Tom was the VP of Strategy at accuRx. Also worked as the Commercial Director of Funding Circle. Originally trained as a management consultant at BCG. Earned an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Cambridge.
Thom Groot
(CEO)Was previously at The AA, Xe.com, INSEAD and Oliver Wyman.
People progressing
Since joining, Anna has been promoted twice within the Operations team. Anna heads up our Customer Operations to ensure our customers have a great experience with us - all with a smile on her face!
Ellie joined our BD team, but felt her skills were better suited elsewhere. We supported her development and she has now transitioned into our Customer Success team!
Leaving the world of law behind, Steph joined us as a Founders Associate. After 10 months she was promoted to Chief of Staff and the latest member of the Senior Leadership Team!
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at The Electric Car Scheme
Jessica Ingram (Senior Talent Partner)
- Here at ECS we believe that diversity not only brings us together but it allows us to be as creative as possible - essential for a start- up! Embracing diversity and inclusion is not only a responsibility we take seriously as an employer but also imperative to ensure we positively impact innovation, talent management, market competitiveness, and success. We're huge advocates for encouraging candidates from all backgrounds to apply for our roles. We're all to aware that the motor trade is a male dominated industry so we're continuously striving to ensure we're attracting and encouraging candidates of all genders to apply for our roles, even if they don't meet 100% of the "what you bring to the role".
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