Mid Backend Engineer

Please allow us to celebrate our own success for a moment We've built a customer-centric product that is market-leading, and we are smashing it!

We're a multi-award-winning digital payments and insight platform within the automotive industry. We work with over 5,000 automotive retailers, helping drivers to pay for motoring costs, accessories, and other services through a variety of different payment options. Our purpose is to build a solution that gives drivers peace of mind while enhancing customer experience and assisting with dealer profitability.

Bumper is a fast-growing payments scale up and we're excited to continue building on our growth having completed a successful Series B funding round in 2024. We're looking to hire a dynamic and passionate Mid Backend Engineer based in either Sheffield or London.

In 2024, AutoBI joined the Bumper Group. AutoBI are setting out to revolutionise how dealerships and partners in the automotive sector track and enhance performance.

Our cutting edge, data driven solution delivers real time insights across CRM, Sales, Service, and Part - all through a unified platform powered by Microsoft Power BI. With AutoBI's comprehensive dashboards, dealerships can access, analyse, and act on the insights they need, all in one place.

Check out our website to find out more.

Our Head Office is in Sheffield City Centre, with offices also based in London and Turkey. We've also expanded further, bringing retailers in Ireland, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands on board, with the vision of being the leading automotive payment and insights platform!

We're looking for a Midlevel Backend Engineer to join our passionate and fast moving Tech Team. You will play a crucial role in developing and improving AutoBI's backend applications, data integrations, and AI powered insight tools, including LLM driven features that enhance data analysis and reporting - contributing to the delivery of high quality software solutions, whilst ensuring they are user friendly, accessible and high performing web applications. You'll report directly to our Engineering Manager and work closely with teams across Bumper to ensure that our frontend applications are seamless.

This is a full time hybrid role working from either of our UK offices (Sheffield or London - Hammersmith). Our ideal candidate would be able to work at least three days per week from one of these locations.

• Collaborate with all relevant departments to deliver end to end features
• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
• Using Git for version control and tracking code changes
• Write secure, maintainable and well documented code
• Diagnosing and resolving system issues across the platform
• Debugging and maintaining applications while ensuring code efficiency and performance
• Attend review meetings and make meaningful contributions to maintain code quality and optimise performance
• Contribute to backend infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring/logging
• Contribute to AI driven insight generation by integrating LLMs with structured data sources (e.g. SQL, Power BI datasets) to enhance reporting and analytics capabilities

We are a passionate and professional team, and we're excited to welcome a Mid Backend Engineer who shares our vision of making Bumper the leading automotive payment and insights platform! In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment where data driven decision making is at the heart of everything we do. If you are an outgoing self starter who enjoys new challenges and new technologies, we'd love to hear from you!

• 4+ years of experience developing backend systems in a production environment
• 4+ years' experience with Python and Django/Flask
• Strong knowledge of SQL databases and experience optimising database performance
• Experience building and integrating applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g. OpenAI, Azure OpenAI)
• Experience with CI/CD, testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library), or design
• Understanding of software design principles and experience building REST APIs
• Proficiency in Git and version control best practices
• Focus on performance, accessibility, and user experience
• Strong time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines
• Have great collaboration skills for cross departmental projects

• Experience working in fintech, payments, e commerce, or automotive sectors

• Competitive Salary
• Company bonus scheme
• Private Healthcare and Medicash plan
• We give 26 days holiday + bank holidays, plus volunteer days throughout the year (prorated)
• Tax saving Salary Sacrifice Pension with Aviva
• Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work, Octopus Electric Vehicle, and Nursery fee schemes available!
• For all your well being and development needs, we give each colleague access to a benefits platform, with an allowance of £250 per year for wellbeing, and £150 per year for development
• Our Bumper Flex policy for better work/life balance
• Annual company wide Bumper Retreat - a few days of fun, collaboration, and mingling (make sure your passport is in date!)
• If and when the time comes, we will give 4 months paid leave to primary carers, and 1 month of paid leave to secondary carers

Perks are nice, but we know perks don't make up the whole package of a great job. By joining our Bumper team, you'll have the opportunity to be an ambassador for our product & brand, and help us to continue on our winning streak!

Important: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. We can only consider candidates who already have the right to work in the UK.