Software Engineer (SDE 3) in London

Carwow Group is driven by a passion for getting people into cars. We are building the go-to destination for car-changing, designed to reach drivers everywhere with our portfolio of automotive brands; Carwow, Auto Express, evo, Driving Electric and Car Buyer. What started as a simple reviews site is now one of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe, with over 10 million customers having used Carwow to help them buy and sell cars since its inception. Last year we grew over 50% with nearly £3 billion worth of cars bought on site, while £1.8 billion of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service. In 2024 we acquired Autovia, doubling our audience overnight.

As a team, our mission is to create a technology-driven company where we are empowered to use our skills to solve difficult problems and scale the product. We are looking to hire software developers that are passionate about developing simple solutions for complex problems. Successful candidates will work with our team in a full-stack position. Our tech stack is primarily Ruby on Rails using PostgreSQL, all hosted on Heroku. We use Terraform to manage our infrastructure and encourage teams to be involved in how we deploy and run our code in Production.

You will be supported by one of our Engineering Managers who will help you with your career progression and ensure that the team you are on is working as well as they can - continuously improving! We have a career progression framework that means you know what is expected of you and how you can progress through our career ladder. Your Engineering Managers will work with you to make sure you are happy, fulfilled, and doing the best work you can be doing.

Software engineers at Carwow work on cross-functional product teams of Product Managers, Engineers, Designers and Data Analysts. You will work closely with a Product Manager and a Tech Lead on deciding what features to build for customers, break down and build features with the team, review code, mentor engineers, ensure operational excellence, and share knowledge broadly across the engineering organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• We love solving real-world problems!
• We work quickly, releasing code into production multiple times daily.
• You'd be part of a growing team building a platform that will help define the future of car buying.
• We're a curious bunch driven by a common goal of "How can we make it better?"
• We work hard to ensure our people have the right level of autonomy, support and sense of purpose to really flourish in their careers.

Key Requirements:

• Time spent in software engineering roles is important, but we prioritise attitude, aptitude, and the kind of impact you've had over years' experience.
• Ideally, you'll have worked as a software engineer with Ruby on Rails. Exposure to Hotwire/Turbo and Sass on the front end is a plus.
• Comfortable working with frontend as well as backend technologies.
• Self-driven and take responsibility for product outcomes, doing whatever's necessary to make things happen.
• Able to take on loosely defined tasks, communicate with stakeholders and break the work down into smaller deliverables.
• Experience with (some of) the following: TDD, Kafka, Git, JS, Heroku, HotWire.
• Experience working in distributed teams and working cross-functionally with Product managers, designers, user researchers and other developers.
• Write code to be maintained – with good documentation, tests, and structure.
• Keen to learn continuously, share knowledge, communicate effectively and build a product in close collaboration with others.

You're not expected to be an expert in all of these technologies and tools; we are happy to support your learning journey. If you're unsure about any of the above, please apply.

Interview Process:

• Talent Screen
• Team Fit interview
• Take Home Assessment
• Technical Pairing Interview

What's in it for you:

• Fully remote working role, with offices in London, Munich, Madrid, and Porto that you can work from.
• 4-5 trips to the London office per year for social and team bonding events.
• Competitive salary.
• Matched pension contributions.
• Share options.
• Vitality Private Healthcare.
• Life Assurance.
• Monthly coaching sessions with Spill.
• Enhanced holiday package, plus Bank Holidays.
• 28 days annual leave, plus additional days for significant milestones.
• Option to buy extra days of holiday per year.
• Work from abroad for a month.
• Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies.
• Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees.
• The latest tech (Macbook or Surface).
• Up to £500/€550 home office allowance.
• Generous learning and development budget.
• Regular social events.
• Refer a friend, get paid.

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture. We welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.