Senior Backend Engineer, Motorway
1-2 days a week in office
Car marketplace
Job no longer available
Car marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
1-2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.
Role
Who you are
- Significant commercial experience with JavaScript. In particular, experience with ES6/7 features, and technologies and frameworks such as node.js, Vue, Express or Sequelize
- Experience with type-safe languages preferably Typescript and relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
- Strong in common software engineering patterns and practices
- Comfortable with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) preferably AWS
- Able to autonomously prioritise work and implement, proactively communicating progress and working with others to unblock themselves and others
- Experience writing tests (Unit, Integration)
- Experience leading feature development
- Experience designing and implementing architecture
- Micro Services/Distributed Systems Experience
- Experience mentoring more junior engineers
What the job involves
- Our engineering team is growing and we’re looking for multiple backend engineers on the mission to create the most powerful vehicle transaction platform on the planet!
- We’re looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and be responsible for building new and innovative products
- You’ll be working daily with a team of between 8-10 people in an agile squad, part of a wider community of practice in both Engineering and the Back End Guild
- You’ll be directly reporting to an Engineering Manager, who will help mentor and guide you in your career
- Develop and maintain high-quality backend systems and APIs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and efficient solutions
- Write clean and well-documented code, following best practices and coding standards
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
- Analyse and optimise system performance and scalability
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies
- Participate in architectural design discussions and contribute to technical decision-making
- Ensure the security, reliability, and maintainability of backend systems
- Teams that are hiring:
- B2C — Seller platform
- B2B — Dealer platform
- Payments
- Transport
- Automation
- Vehicle profiling
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Like many industries, the second-hand car market has undergone significant transformation, with more and more dealers and car owners looking to buy and sell cars online. Motorway is one of a handful of online car marketplaces that are capitalising on this trend.
Motorway differentiates itself from traditional e-commerce and brick and mortar stores because it’s a marketplace, rather than an inventory. This allows for improved speed and verification. Owners sell their cars 100% online in as little as 24 hours with free car collection, while Motorway also supports car dealerships with a new channel for acquisition of used car stock.
Since being founded in 2017, Motorway has grown rapidly, achieving unicorn status in 2021. It is planning on putting this capital to use expanding both geographically and internally, adding more features to its already well-reviewed product. One such feature is its ULEZ checker, which allows car buyers to assess the environmental compliance of vehicles.
The biggest challenge Motorway faces is competing with other well-funded competitors jumping on this trend, such as Auto1 and Cazoo, as well as established companies like Webuyanycar.com. However, online penetration in the £480 billion British and EU used car market is minimal - suggesting that there is enough market to share amongst Motorway and its competitors.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
34% female employees
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"We push boundaries all the time, some people think we're an automotive company, but we're a tech company and think like one. So that includes using..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2021
$190m
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$61.9m
SERIES B
Total funding: $269.7m
Company benefits
- Many of our roles include significant stock options, so you can share in Motorway’s growth and future success
- Our friendly team meet up regularly for lunches and after-work drinks, plus we hold larger events at least twice a year
- Many of our roles include flexibility to work from home regularly, or fully remote for some of the year
- Many roles allow you to choose a schedule that works for you around your core hours
- Your health is your wealth! We take our health and well-being seriously with comprehensive BUPA health insurance offered to every team member, regardless of seniority
- You will have a personal learning and development budget to spend on a wide range of books, courses and conferences. We also include subscriptions to services like Headspace and Audible
- Lease a brand new electric car through your gross salary saving up to 40% on the retail cost
- Purchase a bicycle, accessories and safety equipment through your gross salary, so that you can save on the cost of a new bike & accessories
- Juggling parenting and work is challenging. We want to support you as best we can at this important time for you and your family
- Our pension provider is NEST, through whom you have a choice of funds that you can align with your faith, beliefs and attitudes to risk
Company values
- Create new roads - Changing things for the better through innovation
- Take the wheel - Being accountable and facing hard challenges head-on
- Be humble - Leaving egos at the door — we succeed as one
- Pedal to the metal - We move fast and act decisively
- 5-star comes as standard - Experiences that delight, excellence as standard
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Founders
Tom Leathes
(CEO)Alex, Tom and Harry are serial founders. Together they founded LoanCube (Exited to AOL), Official Space (Exited to Office Broker) and Top10 (Exited to uSwitch).
Harry Jones
(CPO)Alex, Tom and Harry are serial founders. Together they founded LoanCube (Exited to AOL), Official Space (Exited to Office Broker) and Top10 (Exited to uSwitch).
Alex Buttle
(Co-Founder & VP Growth)Alex, Tom and Harry are serial founders. Together they founded LoanCube (Exited to AOL), Official Space (Exited to Office Broker) and Top10 (Exited to uSwitch).
People progressing
Steve joined Motorway back in October 2018 as a Senior Product Manager, and in his 3+ years at Motorway he has risen through the ranks to Lead PM, Head of Product, and is now a Product Director.
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