About Motorway Motorway is the UK's fastest-growing used car marketplace - our award winning, online-only platform connects private car sellers with over 7,500 verified dealers nationwide, who compete to offer the best price. Founded in 2017, our technology makes the process refreshingly easy, earning us an 'Excellent' Trustpilot rating with over 70,000 reviews. We're not just building a platform; we're changing how people sell cars. Backed by leading investors like Index Ventures and ICONIQ Growth, and following a successful $190 million funding round, we're on a mission to transform the used car market. About the job Are you someone with a passion for DevOps and are looking to help build and be part of a new Developer Experience team within the Motorway Product & Engineering org? Motorway continues to grow, and we want to provide our developers with the best experience, which is where you come in. We have recently built and rolled out a new container platform on top of AWS Fargate, and are currently enhancing our observability, reliability, and developer-focused tooling. We will continue to build and evolve secure, standardised platform capabilities that reduce cognitive load and help teams ship faster with confidence. This is an exciting time to join, the team is new and the company growing which presents opportunities to do things "right" to set up success for the org into the future. What you'll do Own and evolve our AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and ease of use for product teams. Design and build opinionated, self-service tooling that makes it easy for engineers to build, deploy, and operate services correctly. Continuously reduce manual work (toil) by automating common workflows and standardising infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and platform abstractions. Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards that provide meaningful signals without overwhelming teams. Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to understand and improve the reliability of their services across environments. Own and evolve our continuous delivery and release capabilities, reducing time to production while maintaining high standards of reliability and safety. Stay current with best practices in application hosting, continuous delivery, and developer experience, and apply them pragmatically to the platform. Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team. As a senior engineer, you are expected to bring prior experience operating and evolving production platforms at scale. You'll use your judgement to make trade-offs, anticipate failure modes, and help the team avoid repeating past mistakes. Learning is encouraged and supported, but you should be comfortable operating independently after onboarding and sharing lessons from real-world experience. Requirements Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale. Strong experience with AWS in a production environment. Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms, with a strong intuition for actionable vs noisy signals. Experience working with platform-level security controls and observability, including identifying and responding to abnormal or unsafe system behaviour. Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems that support safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments. Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment and improving systems based on what you learn. Comfortable with command-line tools and environments. Proficient with at least one programming language used for automation or tooling. Enjoy solving complex, cross-cutting problems in collaboration with engineers across the organisation Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and priorities. Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and the wider engineering organisation. This role includes a shared, out-of-hours on-call rotation after an initial onboarding period. On-call is supported by the wider engineering team and is designed to be sustainable and continuously improved
06/02/2026
Full time
About Motorway Motorway is the UK's fastest-growing used car marketplace - our award winning, online-only platform connects private car sellers with over 7,500 verified dealers nationwide, who compete to offer the best price. Founded in 2017, our technology makes the process refreshingly easy, earning us an 'Excellent' Trustpilot rating with over 70,000 reviews. We're not just building a platform; we're changing how people sell cars. Backed by leading investors like Index Ventures and ICONIQ Growth, and following a successful $190 million funding round, we're on a mission to transform the used car market. About the job Are you someone with a passion for DevOps and are looking to help build and be part of a new Developer Experience team within the Motorway Product & Engineering org? Motorway continues to grow, and we want to provide our developers with the best experience, which is where you come in. We have recently built and rolled out a new container platform on top of AWS Fargate, and are currently enhancing our observability, reliability, and developer-focused tooling. We will continue to build and evolve secure, standardised platform capabilities that reduce cognitive load and help teams ship faster with confidence. This is an exciting time to join, the team is new and the company growing which presents opportunities to do things "right" to set up success for the org into the future. What you'll do Own and evolve our AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and ease of use for product teams. Design and build opinionated, self-service tooling that makes it easy for engineers to build, deploy, and operate services correctly. Continuously reduce manual work (toil) by automating common workflows and standardising infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and platform abstractions. Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards that provide meaningful signals without overwhelming teams. Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to understand and improve the reliability of their services across environments. Own and evolve our continuous delivery and release capabilities, reducing time to production while maintaining high standards of reliability and safety. Stay current with best practices in application hosting, continuous delivery, and developer experience, and apply them pragmatically to the platform. Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team. As a senior engineer, you are expected to bring prior experience operating and evolving production platforms at scale. You'll use your judgement to make trade-offs, anticipate failure modes, and help the team avoid repeating past mistakes. Learning is encouraged and supported, but you should be comfortable operating independently after onboarding and sharing lessons from real-world experience. Requirements Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale. Strong experience with AWS in a production environment. Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms, with a strong intuition for actionable vs noisy signals. Experience working with platform-level security controls and observability, including identifying and responding to abnormal or unsafe system behaviour. Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems that support safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments. Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment and improving systems based on what you learn. Comfortable with command-line tools and environments. Proficient with at least one programming language used for automation or tooling. Enjoy solving complex, cross-cutting problems in collaboration with engineers across the organisation Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and priorities. Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and the wider engineering organisation. This role includes a shared, out-of-hours on-call rotation after an initial onboarding period. On-call is supported by the wider engineering team and is designed to be sustainable and continuously improved
A leading online car marketplace in Greater London is seeking a dedicated DevOps Engineer to join their new Developer Experience team. The role focuses on owning AWS environments, designing self-service tools, and enhancing standards for monitoring and alerting. Ideal candidates have significant experience in operating web platforms at scale, particularly within AWS, and enjoy collaborating and mentoring others. You will have opportunities to automate and improve the platform capabilities while ensuring high reliability and performance.
06/02/2026
Full time
A leading online car marketplace in Greater London is seeking a dedicated DevOps Engineer to join their new Developer Experience team. The role focuses on owning AWS environments, designing self-service tools, and enhancing standards for monitoring and alerting. Ideal candidates have significant experience in operating web platforms at scale, particularly within AWS, and enjoy collaborating and mentoring others. You will have opportunities to automate and improve the platform capabilities while ensuring high reliability and performance.
About Motorway Motorway is the UK's fastest-growing used car marketplace - our award winning, online-only platform connects private car sellers with over 7,500 verified dealers nationwide, who compete to offer the best price. Founded in 2017, our technology makes the process refreshingly easy, earning us an 'Excellent' Trustpilot rating with over 70,000 reviews. We're not just building a platform; we're changing how people sell cars. Backed by leading investors like Index Ventures and ICONIQ Growth, and following a successful $190 million funding round, we're on a mission to transform the used car market. About the team Our team is at the forefront of innovation, creating the most powerful vehicle transaction platform in the UK. We're a passionate and collaborative bunch who love tackling complex challenges and making a real difference in the automotive industry. If you're driven by cutting edge technology and want to be part of a team that's transforming the future of car selling, then this is the place for you. About the role As a Backend Engineer at Motorway, you'll be a key player in building and scaling our platform. You'll have the opportunity to: Architect and develop new JavaScript code, focusing on both new features and performance optimisation. Enhance performance and caching strategies as our platform continues to grow. Construct highly maintainable, reusable, scalable, and reliable code. Manage our 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. Champion and implement software development best practices for high-quality, well-tested, and secure code. About you You have significant commercial experience with JavaScript, particularly with ES6/7 features, and technologies like Node.js, Vue, Express, or Sequelize. You possess experience configuring, deploying, and monitoring applications and websites on AWS. You're comfortable working with relational and NoSQL databases, including complex queries and performance optimisation. You understand web design patterns, including SOLID principles. You have experience working in a collaborative, agile team environment. You're familiar with automated testing and continuous integration and delivery practices. You could be a great fit if You're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact. You're thriving in a fast-paced environment and enjoy learning new things. You're a team player with excellent communication skills. You're proactive and have a strong sense of ownership. You might not be a great fit if You prefer working independently with minimal collaboration. You're not comfortable with a dynamic and evolving environment. You're less experienced with JavaScript and modern web development practices. Interview process Our interview process contains the following stages: Initial Screen with Talent Team - 30 minutes Hiring Manager Interview - 45 minutes Skills Assessment - 60 minutes Exec Interview - 60 minutes You can expect to hear back from us within 2-3 business days of each interview stage. You'll have the opportunity to speak with a talent partner throughout the interview process should you have any questions or need any type of accommodations.
03/02/2026
Full time
About Motorway Motorway is the UK's fastest-growing used car marketplace - our award winning, online-only platform connects private car sellers with over 7,500 verified dealers nationwide, who compete to offer the best price. Founded in 2017, our technology makes the process refreshingly easy, earning us an 'Excellent' Trustpilot rating with over 70,000 reviews. We're not just building a platform; we're changing how people sell cars. Backed by leading investors like Index Ventures and ICONIQ Growth, and following a successful $190 million funding round, we're on a mission to transform the used car market. About the team Our team is at the forefront of innovation, creating the most powerful vehicle transaction platform in the UK. We're a passionate and collaborative bunch who love tackling complex challenges and making a real difference in the automotive industry. If you're driven by cutting edge technology and want to be part of a team that's transforming the future of car selling, then this is the place for you. About the role As a Backend Engineer at Motorway, you'll be a key player in building and scaling our platform. You'll have the opportunity to: Architect and develop new JavaScript code, focusing on both new features and performance optimisation. Enhance performance and caching strategies as our platform continues to grow. Construct highly maintainable, reusable, scalable, and reliable code. Manage our 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. Champion and implement software development best practices for high-quality, well-tested, and secure code. About you You have significant commercial experience with JavaScript, particularly with ES6/7 features, and technologies like Node.js, Vue, Express, or Sequelize. You possess experience configuring, deploying, and monitoring applications and websites on AWS. You're comfortable working with relational and NoSQL databases, including complex queries and performance optimisation. You understand web design patterns, including SOLID principles. You have experience working in a collaborative, agile team environment. You're familiar with automated testing and continuous integration and delivery practices. You could be a great fit if You're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact. You're thriving in a fast-paced environment and enjoy learning new things. You're a team player with excellent communication skills. You're proactive and have a strong sense of ownership. You might not be a great fit if You prefer working independently with minimal collaboration. You're not comfortable with a dynamic and evolving environment. You're less experienced with JavaScript and modern web development practices. Interview process Our interview process contains the following stages: Initial Screen with Talent Team - 30 minutes Hiring Manager Interview - 45 minutes Skills Assessment - 60 minutes Exec Interview - 60 minutes You can expect to hear back from us within 2-3 business days of each interview stage. You'll have the opportunity to speak with a talent partner throughout the interview process should you have any questions or need any type of accommodations.
