Backend Engineer (Mid-Level)

London

Full time

On-site

Product

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace - our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal. Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car. Motorway is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.

About the role:

Our engineering team is growing, and we're looking for talented Backend Engineers to join our mission to create the most powerful vehicle transaction platform on the planet!

Are you passionate about technology and eager to make a real impact? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can learn and grow? If so, we want to hear from you!

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of new and innovative products, experiment with cutting-edge technologies, and solve challenging problems that are transforming the automotive industry.

Our tech stack: Typescript, Node.JS, and JavaScript, utilising the latest JS features. We use micro-services architecture and deploy to the AWS cloud.

The Dealer Core teams own the Car Dealer experience of the Motorway platform. This includes the Auction: the most vibrant and important part of the Motorway value stream! Engineers here work to deliver features that help Dealers find the best vehicles that fit their market, which gives our Sellers the benefit of a competitive marketplace for their cars.

What you'll do:

• Develop and deliver new features for our customers: the Dealers and Sellers of vehicles in a vibrant auction space.

• Collaborate with product, and design teams to deliver excellent user experiences.

• Improve and maintain our dynamic platform of services to improve performance and efficiency as we scale.

• Build maintainable, reusable, and reliable code.

• Work with our AWS infrastructure to ensure high performance, monitoring, and alerting.

• Be an active member of our flat-structured development team, contributing to technical and product strategy discussions.

• Use Kiro and other AI tools to move faster, explore solutions, and focus your time on the decisions that matter

• Implement software development best practices, including testing and code reviews.

Requirements:

We encourage you to apply, even if you might not meet all the requirements.

• Commercial experience with Typescript and/or JavaScript, including ES6/7 features.

• Experience with Node.js and related frameworks (e.g., Express, Sequelize).

• Experience working with relational databases and NoSQL databases.

• Understanding of web design patterns.

• Experience working in a collaborative, agile team environment.

• Experience with automated testing is a plus.

• Interest in using AI tools as part of your programming workflow.

Benefits

• A competitive salary

• BUPA health insurance

• Discounted gym membership through BUPA

• OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year

• Hybrid working

• Pension scheme

• Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount

• Enhanced parental leave - We offer enhanced maternity pay (26 weeks of full pay) and enhanced paternity pay (4 weeks of full pay) to eligible employees.

• Workplace nursery scheme

• Regular social events

• Cycle to work scheme

Equal opportunities statement

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where people can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.