Software Engineer, Carwow

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Junior and Mid level
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Carwow

Carwow is the one-stop shop to change your car.

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Carwow

Carwow is the one-stop shop to change your car.

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceCarsConsumer Goods

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

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Kafka
Ruby
Close
Git
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Junior and Mid level
Remote in UK
London

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceCarsConsumer Goods

Company mission

To empower our customers to discover, buy, sell and drive cars with total confidence.

Company mission

To empower our customers to discover, buy, sell and drive cars with total confidence.

Top investors

32% female employees

-14% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

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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Freddie

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Benefits

  • Share Options
  • 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

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jul 2024

$52m

LATE VC

Nov 2023

$3.8m

LATE VC

Total funding: $227.5m

This company has top investors

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.

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

Endorsements

All

Career progression (1)

Supportive management (1)

Growing fast (1)

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