Software Engineer, Carwow
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Carwow is the one-stop shop to change your car.
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Carwow is the one-stop shop to change your car.
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower our customers to discover, buy, sell and drive cars with total confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Time spent in software engineering roles is of course important, but we prioritise attitude, aptitude, and the kind of impact you’ve had over years' experience. Ideally you’ll have:
- Have around 2 years or more experience in software development - this isn't an entry-level role and we want to make sure that candidates have experience working professionally to meet the level of the role
- Have a good grasp of Ruby, both plain and with frameworks (e.g. Ruby on Rails)
- Enjoy working within a TDD environment
- Like the idea of working on events based systems, for example Kafka
- Are comfortable using git or other source control system proficiently
- Have worked in a metrics-driven team and care about the outcomes of your work
- Are self-driven and take responsibility for product outcomes, doing whatever’s necessary to make things happen,
- Enjoy working in distributed teams and working cross-functionally with Product managers, designers, user researchers and other developers,
- Write code to be maintained – with good documentation, tests, and structure
- Are keen to learn continuously, share knowledge, communicate effectively and build a product in close collaboration with others
What the job involves
- Software engineers at carwow work on cross-functional product teams of product managers, engineers, designers and data analysts
- You will work closely with a Product Manager and a Tech Lead on deciding what features to build for customers, break down and build features with the team, review code, mentor engineers, ensure operational excellence, and share knowledge broadly across the engineering organisation
- We love solving real-world problems!
- We work quickly, releasing code into production multiple times daily. You’ll see your code go live continuously
- You’d be part of a growing team building a platform that will help define the future of car buying
- We’re a curious bunch driven by a common goal of "How can we make it better?
- We work hard to ensure our people have the right level of autonomy, support and sense of purpose to really flourish in their careers
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Carwow thinks there should be a better way to buy cars than going down to a local dealer and having to haggle. It has made it easy for customers to find exactly the car they are looking for, right down to the combination of optional extras, and removed the need for haggling.
It is the largest web platform for new car sales in the UK, Germany and Spain, and has clever marketing tactics: it benefits from a large following on YouTube with close to 7 million subscribers, attracting 70 million monthly views to videos that feature a mix of in-depth car reviews and drag races.
Carwow currently has over six million users per month actively looking to purchase a vehicle via its online platform. Following its acquisition of Wizzle in 2021, over 100,000 consumers listed their used car on carwow in the first 5 months of 2022, and over one million requested a valuation.
The company is embarking on an exciting and ambitious phase of growth with a series of acquisitions, senior promotions, and appointments, and the breadth of services it provides to car retailers and car manufacturers will be both enhanced and widened.
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Employee endorsements
Career progression
"A significant proportion of carwow's mid-managerial leaders have been internally promoted, and there are countless examples of people going from an..."
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2023
$3.8m
LATE VC
Sep 2022
$20.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $174.4m
Company benefits
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- Flexible working
- £500/€550 Home Office budget
- Private Medical insurance
- Generous learning and development budget
- Work from anywhere for 1 month scheme
- Family friendly policies
- Mental Health first aiders + coaching
- Bi-annual staff WOW awards
- Hybrid working and remote optional
Company values
- Clear
- Collaborative
- Curious
- Effective
- Humble
- Positive
- Proactive
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Founders
James Hind
(Founder)Studied Finance, Accounting & Management at the University of Nottingham.
Alexandra Margolis
(Creative Director)Digital Media graduate at Digitas UK before dropping out to start Carwow.
David Santoro
(CTO)Previously a developer for Barclays and ITV.
People progressing
Joined as an Account Manager in 2016. Has worked as Director of 'Sell Your Car' since July 2021.
Alyx joined as an Account Manager in 2017, she now leads the UK Commercial Operations team
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