Principal Backend Engineer - Hybrid, Equity & PTO

Autotrader; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shares plan

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Car salary sacrifice

Share-save options

Hybrid working

Job summary

Autotrader in Manchester is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Backend) to help build a scalable platform powering Autotrader.co.uk and beyond. You’ll work on Spring Boot services, RESTful APIs, and high-throughput systems.

The role emphasizes leadership, architecture discussions and mentoring, with a hybrid working model. Salary £60,000–£80,000, plus a 10% annual share award and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• A thorough understanding of Java and the JVM.
• Knowledge of server-side frameworks such as Spring.
• Web application design and RESTful API know-how.
• A structured approach to programming and testing, such as TDD.
• Proven mentoring, coaching and sharing technical expertise.
• Experience leading and delivering technical projects.
• SQL/Relational databases.
• Document/Map based storage (eg: MongoDB).
• Working with Kafka messaging/streaming.

Skills

Java/JVM

Spring

Web API design

TDD

Mentoring

Leading projects

SQL

MongoDB

Kafka

Tools

MongoDB

Kafka

Job description

Autotrader in Manchester is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Backend) to help build a scalable platform powering Autotrader.co.uk and beyond. You’ll work on Spring Boot services, RESTful APIs, and high-throughput systems.

The role emphasizes leadership, architecture discussions and mentoring, with a hybrid working model. Salary £60,000–£80,000, plus a 10% annual share award and comprehensive benefits.