MOTORS, is the ultimate destination for car enthusiasts and buyers alike! As a leader in the market, we pride ourselves on providing unparalleled search tools, expert car guides, insightful reviews, and a comprehensive vehicle price guide. Our mission is simple: to empower buyers to find their perfect car efficiently and with confidence, while also helping automotive retailers reach millions of eager buyers.
At MOTORS, you'll be part of a team that's revolutionizing the way people buy and sell cars. Our innovative advertising opportunities not only elevate our platform but also extend across a vast dealer advertising ecosystem, including automotive giants like eBay and Gumtree. If you're ready to drive your career forward in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, MOTORS is the place for you. Join us and be a part of shaping the future of automotive retail!
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Remote or Richmond, London
About the role:
We are looking for a highly skilled Principal Engineer to join our MOTORS business and accelerate our business using modern web technologies.
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll understand the need to balance perfection and expediency to meet business needs. You’ll embed yourself in discussions across functions, from tech and product to business, helping set the right expectations, building up trust, and making the right decisions that strike the best balance of short—and long-term strategic goals.
Recent news:
MOTORS recently acquired the Cazoo brand and launched an app - which we are seriously proud of! https://www.motortrader.com/motor-trader-news/automotive-news/motors-launched-new-cazoo-app-11-07-2024
We also have a new web presence for this brand that we need your help accelerating forward! https://cazoo.co.uk/
Main responsibilities:
You will be positioned as an Expert Contributor at the brink between Product, Commercial and Engineering. You’ll help deliver a modern web automotive platform, deliver against our company goals and increase our company value over time
Lead the refactoring of complex systems and resolution of complex problems, making pragmatic trade-offs between perfection and technical debt to align with our priorities as a business.
Functionally lead the Typescript team with the launch of our new modern cloud-based scalable platform
Ensuring existing systems continue to be maintained at a high standard and managing short to medium-term improvements where required.
Contribute towards delivering high quality code by improving coding standards and best practices, taking into account wider requirements such as performance, reliability, availability, scalability and security.
Proactively contribute to the wider engineering department, through knowledge sharing and architectural forums.
Enable the growth of the engineering department by supporting hiring, onboarding, and giving effective feedback.
Lead good agile team outcomes ensuring engineering decisions are made which factor in technical debt, systems design, stability/reliability, monitoring/observability and business needs
Represent the team in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services
Dive deep into system and application performance and reliability issues; partner with software and systems engineers across the organisation
Role requirements:
A leader in TypeScript engineering with several years of experience in designing and building solutions
Capable of translating and clarifying technical direction to non-tech stakeholders
A calming and positive presence, helping your team to see the bigger picture
Proven track record of leading significant improvements in quality, performance, stability and scalability to platforms
Significant experience leading architectural system designs
Experience fostering strong engineering cultures, DevOps Culture, TDD Culture, etc
Experience working with the following technologies/stack:
Microservices, Backend-For-Frontend, JavaScript/TypeScript, React 17+, Modern CSS, such as Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, GraphQL/OpenAPI, NodeJS
Previous experience with the following is a bonus:
Cross-platform technologies such as React Native/Expo, Azure technologies, Jest/Vitest, Cypress/Playwright, NextJS and Vercel technologies, React Server Components, React Query, Zod, Storybook, Vite/Webpack
Our Values:
We are grounded in our four values, ideated and designed by our very own colleagues:
Perks & Benefits
We offer a supportive, flexible, and growth-focused workplace. At Motors you will have a healthy work-life balance, continuous learning, remote work options, and engaging challenges. Join us for a fulfilling career where your well-being is a priority.
Financial reward 💷
Work-life balance 🏖️
Health & Insurance 🏩
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Diversity & Inclusion at Motors
Here at Motors, we are on a mission to create a culture where all our teams are inspired to share their passion, talents, and ideas with equal opportunities for growth and career development throughout our brands.
We know that a diverse and inclusive team drives creativity and strengthens our brands. That’s why we’re committed to discovering new talent and employing people who reflect the nature of the society around us so that when you join Motors you can be you!
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