carwow is looking for Software Engineers (Ruby on Rails) to join the Engineering team in our Portuguese product centre of excellence working on a fully remote basis.
About carwow
Buying or selling a car shouldn’t be difficult! That’s why here at carwow we are on a mission to change the way people buy, sell or use a car by creating the world’s best online car marketplace. We're not all petrolheads - just a highly driven (excuse the pun) scale-up with over 300 carwowers in the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal .
Since starting our journey in 2011, we’ve grown to become one of the most trusted comparison sites with over 12 million users and a Trustpilot rating of 4.7. We are also very proud to be backed by some of Europe’s most respected technology, marketplace and automotive investors.
Working here
At carwow, we aim to create a culture where our team can thrive no matter where or how they work. With hybrid working (1-2 days in the office although more if you like), and a healthy home office budget of £500, we are also open to looking at alternative working patterns to ensure carwowers can work in a way that works best for them.
We’re also a curious bunch and benefit from a number of different training opportunities. We are big on celebrating successes, working collaboratively and have found lots of ways to stay connected as a team both virtually and in person.
With a team of over 25 different nationalities, we know a diverse and inclusive workforce creates a more innovative company. We have work to do to get us where we’d like to be, but are working hard to get there and have a number of key DE&I initiatives underway.
So, if you always aim to WOW through everything you do (check out more info about our values here), we’d love you to join us on our journey.
About the role
We have a number of new and exciting projects in the pipeline and need help in solving interesting and impactful technical challenges with a range of contexts — from infrastructure to the front-end.
As a team, our mission is to create a technology driven company where we're empowered to use our skills to solve difficult problems and scale the product.
Our tech stack is primarily Ruby on Rails, using PostgreSQL for the backend and Elm for the frontend, all hosted on Heroku. We use Terraform to manage our infrastructure and encourage teams to be involved in deployment.
Employee development is important to us; we've designed a progression framework that encourages fast track progression and clearly defines what is expected of you at each career stage.
What you can expect from this role;
- Working in a product team building out new functionality and contributing to existing
- Pushing code through to production from day 1
- Work with team who are passionate about quality — TDD means a lot to us. Whilst delivery is important, we don’t sacrifice on quality
- We pride ourselves on having a truly collaborative approach and a culture of open-mindedness where your opinions and insights can be heard.
- We care about staff happiness; we'll make sure you have all the right support, learning experiences, and entrainment to enjoy your job.
- You will have the opportunity to mentor and coach junior engineers should you wish to
- You will be working for a technology-driven company, where the main stakeholders have a very good understanding of the product development process and nuances of software development. One of our co-founders is the CTO who is very passionate about software engineering and does a great job of educating the company about how exactly building software with agility works
- You will be exposed to the entire product development process, allowing you to develop skills outside of software development
- We have challenging scalability and are growing every day. Currently, there are around 3 million visitors a month on average to the website and growing