carwow makes choosing and
buying your perfect car easy and enjoyable. By comparing the best offers
from our top local and national dealers, you get the car you want, from
the dealer you like best, at a price that’s right for you.
We’re
a driven, energetic startup with a team of 200+ based in London
(Victoria), Munich, Paris and Madrid. We are backed by some of Europe’s
leading VCs and have raised over £48m in funding since we launched, so
we’re growing fast. We've just been ranked 6th in the Financial Times'
Top 1000 Fastest Growing Companies in Europe. We’re relentlessly driven
and constantly asking ourselves how we can make carwow better. If you’re
proactive, motivated, and want to help us change the future of car
buying, get in touch. It’s the chance to be at the start of something
huge.
About the tech team
We have a number
of new and exciting projects in the pipeline and need help in solving
interesting and impactful technical challenges with a range of contexts —
from infrastructure to the front-end.
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.
To
achieve this, 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;
part of one of the best small companies to work for in the UK.
We
believe diversity of experience (whether that be personal or
professional), contributes to a broader perspective and will lead to a
better company with highly innovative products and solutions. We’re
working hard to increase the diversity of our team and be more
inclusive, so if you’re not sure you fit the criteria, why not get in
touch? We value confidence whilst being humble, so are keen to meet
those with talent who are the right fit.
Why should you join carwow?
- We work quickly and you’ll be able to have a direct impact on the product — pushing code to production within your first day
- You
will be working with a company who are passionate about quality — TDD
means a lot to us. Whilst delivery is important, we don’t sacrifice on
quality
- You will work within a truly collaborative, pragmatic,
team where you can learn from some highly-experienced developers from
many different professional backgrounds
- We’ve got a team culture of open-mindedness that allows you to have your opinions and insights be heard,considered and tried
- We’re
a growing team so you’ll have plenty of opportunities to grow your own
skills and work your way towards whatever career ambitions you may have
- We
promote continuous learning and don’t pigeonhole our developers to just
knowing Ruby, you will be able to attend conferences for different
types of technology such as Elm Europe, ElixirLDN, dotCSS / JS, Full
Stack Fest and Strangeloop
- We care about being a happy and balanced team
- You will have the opportunity to gain more experience around mentoring and coaching junior developers should you wish to
- You
will be working for a technology driven company, where the main
stakeholders have a very good understanding of the product development
process and nuances of software development. One of our co-founders is
the CTO who is very passionate about software engineering and does a
great job of educating the company about how exactly building software
with agility works
- You will be exposed to the entire product development process, allowing you to develop skills outside of software development
- We
have challenging scalability and are growing everyday. Currently there
are around 3 million visitors a month on average to the website - having
grown from 2 million in the last 6 months!
- There’s lots to do; we are building tonnes of new features all the time and still defining what carwow is as a product
- Every
Friday, the engineering team is given the freedom to take a break from
the backlog and work on something of interest that contributes to the
technical maturity and stability of our codebase - Backlog free Fridays
- You
can get involved with a number of conferences that we sponsor/ run/
host such as Brighton Ruby Conference, Ruby Hacknight, Codebar and
London Elixir Dojo
You should apply if:
- You care about software excellence
- You know and want to learn more about software best practices such as refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, etc
- You have professional experience with a dynamic web-based programming language (e.g. Ruby, Python, or PHP)
- You understand why testing software is useful, and try to write well tested code as much as possible
- You can demonstrate a good understanding of web technologies
- You enjoy challenges across the entire stack
- You
are pragmatic in your approach to writing software (e.g. you take
context into consideration, and don’t follow rules blindly)
- You enjoy working with others
- You want to work in highly collaborative and cross-functional teams
Our setup?
- Our product teams are cross functional and typically consist of full stack developers, designers, PMs, and insight analysts
- The
teams are focussed around reaching core objectives for the year. Some
of our objectives for this year include: launching a leasing
proposition, increasing sales of in-stock cars, increasing dealership
groups engagement
- We love Ruby, JavaScript, Git, TDD, and OSS
and use a bunch of other technologies daily; Haml, Sass, Heroku, AWS
being the most usual suspects
Benefits
- A
brand new laptop — developers usually use Macbook Pros or Dell XPS 13s
with their favourite flavour of Linux (feel free to ask for what allows
you to do your job best)
- A budget towards peripherals and equipment (most of our developers end up getting mechanical keyboards with theirs)
- Want training? We’ve got weekly German language classes, presentation skills training, management training and yoga classes
- Flexible working offered
- Full-time and part-time positions available
- Competitive salary and you'll receive equity in the business
- 25 days holiday, a training budget and work from home 1 day a week
- A chance to work in a truly data-driven environment. We A/B test extensively and data is core to our decision making process
- Get to work with a highly experienced team on a high traffic site
- Continuous delivery - every push to master goes straight to production (assuming the tests have passed!)
- Regular team lunches, free fruit and fancy coffee on tap (and tea!)
- Annual company ski trip - this year we went to Austria!
- A sociable team with monthly office-wide events - check out our Instagram
- Friday wine/beers
- Netball, football, tennis and dodgeball teams