Level: Mid-level (2-4 years of experience)
Location: London (Paddington), on-site, with occasional travel to France and less frequent travel to other countries
Right to work in the UK: required, we do not sponsor visas
Stack: PHP (Symfony), TypeScript, Next.js, AWS, OVH, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker
About Autorigin
Autorigin is the number 1 tool for vehicle history checks among professionals in France. Accidents, previous owners, service history: everything you need to know to buy a vehicle with confidence. Our reports were viewed 30 million times in 2025.
The role
We are a small team and are looking for someone to work with us in the office, in Paddington, reporting directly to the CEO/CTO. You will be the team’s first full-time engineer. This is a French-speaking role. The role involves occasional travel to France and, less frequently, to other countries.
You will work on features end to end, from our backend (PHP/Symfony) to the Next.js interface, in a mature codebase with extremely high quality standards. You will deal with large-scale asynchronous orchestration, the reliability of production systems under real load, a proprietary scoring engine, and performance and SEO on high-traffic pages. We are constantly questioning ourselves and learning.
We use AI to develop new products. That is exactly why we need someone who can code without it. You need to spot when the AI is wrong, when it has taken a shortcut, when its approach works but isn’t the right one, or when code that looks correct won’t hold up under load. You review what it produces as you would a colleague’s code, and you stay responsible for what goes into production.
What you will do
- Design and build fullstack features, from the database schema to the UI.
- Play an active part in product development.
- Work with our SEO team on public pages.
- Evolve our multi-country architecture to prepare for upcoming expansions.
Who we are looking for
- 2 to 4 years of experience in fullstack web development.
- This is a PHP and TypeScript role. Experience in these languages is preferred, but solid experience in any object-oriented language works.
- Experience with React, ideally with Next.js.
- Comfortable with PostgreSQL/Doctrine and REST APIs.
- A culture of automated testing and quality control.
- Advanced use of generative AI for coding: you know how to prompt effectively, but above all you know how to challenge what the AI produces. We are not looking for someone who accepts output without understanding it. We are looking for someone who knows when the AI is right, when it is wrong, and why.
- The ability to make big-picture architectural decisions. This is essential for this role.
- Fluent French and strong English.
- Autonomy and curiosity about scale and architecture problems.
28 days of holiday + bank holidays + a day off during your birthday week
