Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack)
Salary: Competitive
Location: Hybrid working, home & BCA Coimbra (monthly visits)
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 40 hours
Job Status: Permanent
Who we are
The Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital car marketplace in Europe, combining the leading digital brands across the segments of Consumer to Business (C2B), Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C). Across our digital platforms we exceed £20billion of Gross Merchandises Value ('GMV') on an annual basis. This includes market leading brands such as BCA, WeBuyAnyCar, cinch, and Marshall.
The Constellation Technology Team provides a group-wide set of Technology Products and Services across the Constellation Automotive Group. We are a central function working across the following domains: Technology Operations, Cyber Security, Product, Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Logistics, Architecture and Portfolio; across the UK and Europe.
Our software engineering team is at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies and projects revolutionising the automotive industry. We are excited to expand our team at our brand-new Tech Hub in Coimbra, where you will have a unique opportunity to influence the development and culture of this innovative hub.
Role Responsibilities:
* Building the future of our AWS, TypeScript, React, Node, micro frontend, serverless, event-driven applications
* Working with your squad to craft a site that's easy to innovate within and loved by our customers
* Contributing to our collaborative DevOps culture, being responsible for your code from design to deployment and support
* Continually identifying areas for improvement through refactoring code, process or working methods
* Pushing the boundaries, questioning the status quo, ensuring what we are doing and what we are building is the very best it can be
* Proactively sharing acquired knowledge and insights with colleagues and across cinch
* Mentoring and educating squad members on new technologies, best practices, and industry developments
* Demonstrating a strategic mindset to help improve Cinch's overall technical strategy
* Contributing to the alignment of technological decisions with long-term business objectives
* Leading the exploration and implementation of innovative technologies and features
* Identifying opportunities to optimise processes and workflows within the team or wider organisation
* Taking on a pivotal role in mentoring, guiding, and developing junior team members
The person:
* You have a strong technical background in web application development, preferably in a large-scale cloud-based setting with modern software development practises such as CI/CD
* You can demonstrate having worked in an environment which has strong engineering practises and principles such as TDD and pair programming and demonstrate how you have furthered the culture
* You have significant experience with modern frontend frameworks (we use React), as well as a solid comprehension of the basics of good frontend development - HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, a11y
* You have a passion for developing others and have experience in mentoring software engineers
* You are effective at facilitating technical discussions in the team and confident in challenging approaches when they don't seem right
* You have solid experience working in a modern agile environment
* You have a real appetite for learning & self-development and pride yourself on being a valued member of the team
Experience with any of the following is a bonus:
* Serverless compute such as Lambdas or Functions
* Serverless Framework
* NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or Mongo
* Understand the importance of driving quality into code through test automation
* Familiar with event modelling and event driven architectures
* E-commerce experience
* Care about the product life cycle and the lifetime value of the customer
* You want to grow within your career and are looking for a place that lets you have immediate, meaningful impact
* Pragmatic and deliver thoughtful, awesome solutions to solve business problems
* Have had experience or want to have experience working in diverse, cross functional agile teams
* Passionate about software development, sociable, with a great appetite for learning and self-improvement
Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.
Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability