Senior Backend Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

Automotive, Used Car Marketplace, E-commerceIndustries

Requirements

Candidates should possess significant commercial experience with JavaScript, particularly with ES6/7 features, and technologies like Node.js, Vue, Express, or Sequelize. They should have experience configuring, deploying, and monitoring applications and websites on AWS, along with a solid understanding of web design patterns, including SOLID principles.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Motorway, the individual will architect and develop new JavaScript code, focusing on both new features and performance optimization, enhance performance and caching strategies as the platform grows, construct highly maintainable, reusable, scalable, and reliable code, manage the AWS infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, monitoring, and alerting, collaborate with product and design teams to deliver exceptional user experiences, contribute to the technical and product strategy of the business, and champion and implement software development best practices for high-quality, well-tested, and secure code.

Skills

JavaScript

ES6/7

Node.js

Vue

Express

Sequelize

AWS

Performance Optimization

Caching Strategies

Code Maintainability

Scalability

Monitoring

Alerting

Software Development Best Practices

Testing

Security

Motorway

About Motorway

London, United KingdomHeadquarters

2017Year Founded

$264.2MTotal Funding

SERIES_CCompany Stage

Automotive & Transportation, Consumer SoftwareIndustries

201-500Employees

Senior Backend Engineer

Requirements

Responsibilities

Skills

Motorway

About Motorway

Risks

Competition from Cazoo and Cinch threatens market share.

Economic downturns may reduce consumer demand for used cars.

Integration challenges with Total Car Check could cause operational inefficiencies.

Differentiation

Motorway Pay offers instant transactions, setting it apart in digital payment solutions.

Acquisition of Total Car Check enhances vehicle provenance, boosting buyer trust.

Strategic leadership hires strengthen Motorway's financial and commercial management.

Upsides

Partnership with Leasing.com expands customer base and service integration.

New office space in Brighton supports growth and operational expansion.

Industry recognition boosts brand credibility and market positioning.

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