Overview

The Role: Senior Java Developer - Dealer Auction. Dealer Auction is a digital business transforming automotive remarketing. A joint venture between Auto Trader and Cox Automotive, we are the UK's largest online used vehicle wholesale marketplace. Our core purpose is to help automotive businesses buy and sell used vehicles online, faster and smarter than any other platform. Customers include manufacturers, fleet & leasing companies, franchise and independent retailers. Data is at the heart of our business and drives everything we do. Guided by data, we continually update and evolve our digital platform, which attracts over 5,500 buyers and 1,200 sellers, and transacts over 120,000 vehicles every year. This number is growing year on year as we onboard more partners. As the industry shifts online, Dealer Auction is set to grow significantly. We empower ideas to flow upwards within the organisation and will help ensure that our tech stack remains at the cutting edge.

Tech Stack (core Java with exposure to others): Kotlin (Java), TypeScript, Angular, Websockets, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks. Comfortable taking responsibility for defining solutions and delivering software to meet significant platform features.

Responsibilities

• Manage the breakdown of work into stories and tasks and collaborate with other development team members to deliver them.
• Build RESTful services using Java and Kotlin.
• Develop reactive frontend components in Angular.
• Practice CI & CD using Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes Engine, making multiple releases to production each day.
• Assume tasks from tech leads and support the team with expected behaviours when needed.
• Help develop talent, onboard new team members and mentor junior developers.
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team to shape technical solutions and direction.
• Actively seek to improve both technical and non-technical aspects of the team and suggest improvements.
• Employ agile techniques in a fast-moving environment to deliver story-based features.
• Be keen to learn and work in a lively environment, keeping up with new and changing industry trends.
• Focus on delivering great experiences for end users of applications.
• Maintain a critical outlook and balance effective delivery with technical elegance.

Qualifications / What we are looking for

• Senior Java Developers who are passionate about what they build and how they build it, joining our product team to improve and add to our auction platform for customers and internal users.
• Experience working in a product team that is data-driven and focused on world-class customer journeys.
• Experience in server-side web applications in Java or Kotlin with TDD.
• Experience of front-end development in Angular or React is desirable but not essential.
• Committed to working in an agile team.

What we offer

• A collaborative and non-hierarchical work environment with core cultural values.
• Access to best-in-class data platforms and operational stacks.
• 10% time for professional skills development.
• A growing company committed to investing in your development and growth.
• Exposure to new technologies and approaches to deliver our goals and keep our Tech Stack up to date.
• We are committed to making Dealer Auction a diverse and inclusive environment for everyone.
• You will be working within a business that is Innovative, Brave, Passionate, Reliable and Community Minded.

Note: We strictly do not accept unsolicited agency CVs. We work with a carefully selected set of recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for fees related to unsolicited CVs.