Commitment: Employee Location: UK (Reading); Poland Work type: Remote
Keyloop bridges the gap between dealers, manufacturers, technology suppliers and car buyers. We empower car dealers and manufacturers to fully embrace digital transformation by creating innovative technology that makes selling cars better for our customers, and buying and owning cars better for theirs. We use cutting-edge technology to link our clients’ systems, departments and sites, providing an open technology platform that’s shaping the industry for the future. We use data to help clients become more efficient, increase profitability and give more customers an amazing experience. Want to be part of it?
The purpose of this role is to maintain existing capabilities and implement new and enhanced capabilities for the Vehicle Hub software as a service platform through close collaboration with the Engineering and Product teams. This includes the development of the full software stack, collaboration with and support of other colleagues, and contributing to the ongoing operations and maintenance of the platform to keep it secure, stable and supported. As a Senior Software Engineer, the individual will take ownership of entire problem spaces and continually seek to push the Vehicle Hub platform forwards, aligned to our strategic product goals.
Development: * Directly contribute to our platform growth ambitions and work alongside other engineers in expanding the feature-set of the platform. * Enhance, refactor, and maintain our existing software as a service platform. * Determine a suitable approach for an identified problem space. * Ensure the solution meets the acceptance criteria outlined for that problem space. * Implement effective test coverage for the solution to ensure it behaves as expected. * Conduct code reviews for pull requests. * Be accountable for the solutions you implement. * Manage development tasks from initial assignment through to release. * Assist with the grooming of the backlog and the continual refinement of issues.
Support: * Provide ongoing support to our clients and the wider company to preserve the value of the platform. * Build and maintain a personal knowledge base of the system’s functionality, data sources, and data structures. * Act as a technical expert to support colleagues. * Answer technical queries posed by our other teams. * Provide day-to-day support to the Vehicle Hub Engineering Team through collaboration and to help resolve development blocks. * Identify enhancement opportunities in the system, whether due to technical debt, poor data quality, a poor or inconsistent user experience, or through advancements in technology.
Platform: * Contribute to the ongoing operations and maintenance of the Vehicle Hub platform to keep it secure, stable, and supported. * Update our software dependencies as required, including language and framework upgrades. * Identify when our test coverage is lacking and enhance as appropriate. * Maintain, update, and build our application containers. * Deploy to our non-production and production environments through our deployment process. * Build and maintain a personal knowledge base of our infrastructure and associated technologies. * Monitor our infrastructure to ensure it remains available and performant. * Provide support to resolve infrastructure issues.