Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Full or Part Time
Autotrader, Manchester
The role
We're looking for Senior Software Engineers to help us build a technology platform for more than just the needs of Autotrader.co.uk.
Utilising our public-facing web services and additional external data sources means that we'll be able to power businesses across the automotive industry.
Spring Boot, Apache Solr, Cloud SQL and Apache Kafka power our platform and process millions of events per day. As a team, our software developers are responsible for ensuring service availability and responsiveness continue to improve. They work on systems that handle thousands of requests per second, with sub-100 millisecond response times, servicing requests from over 50 client applications.
Our tech community value collaboration and teamwork. Interactions like pairing, code reviews and regular stand-ups mean our software developers stay connected. We actively encourage AI-assisted workflows. Whether it's using GitHub Copilot to eliminate boilerplate or LLMs to bounce ideas around, we give you the tools to move faster and focus on the hard engineering problems.