About Motorway

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace — our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal.

Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of over 250 across 4 locations.

Motorway is now valued at over $1 billion and is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better

Our key products are:

An online marketplace for used cars whereby a seller can list their vehicle for sale and a large network of professional dealers can bid on vehicles for sale.
Two native mobile applications with shared functionality and supporting backend infrastructure.

About the role

About the team

This role is based in our newly formed mobile team, supported by our strong produce development team. It’s an opportunity to join a greenfield mobile offering in a fast-growing, revenue-generating startup. You will be building amazing products with a high degree of influence.

We strive to use the latest technology available to us, we are developing in the latest SwiftUI technologies, targeting iOS 14 or greater and all that has to offer – for example AppClips.

Photos are a big part of Motorway and the native apps will be no exception, utilising a plethora of what modern iOS devices have to offer.

What you'll do

Focused on Swift 5+, SwiftUI 2 and associated frameworks, such as Combine you will be building out entire swathes of application functionality from the ground up. On a day to day basis you will be working with:

A mobile lead
Dedicated design and UX team
Product management
Backend development

When developing a feature, you will own that feature, from the initial build to shipping. With humility, care and respect for other peoples disciplines; the input of your expertise and experience is not only welcomed, it’s expected.

What we're looking for:

Experience with Swift, SwiftUI and Combine, plus past experience with Objective-C and or other programming languages.
Ability to build reusable lean frameworks, experience with Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods and or Carthage.
Experience working with designers and implementing amazing user experiences.
A strong understanding of what makes a great native application, with a deep appreciation of iOS platform conventions and design principles.
A firm grasp of Xcode, unit testing, continuous integration and deployment.
Experience working with version control, we use Git and GitHub.
Experience of agile software development practices and working collaboratively in a team environment.
A passion for technology and software, demonstrated by personal projects, blog posts or contributions to open source projects.
A degree or college-level education in computer science or technology subject is a plus.

Benefits

A competitive salary.
Significant stock options - we succeed and fail together as a team - we want you to be included in our success
£500 annual learning budget with access to General Assembly courses, an Audible subscription and hundreds of books and online lessons.
BUPA health insurance.
Pension scheme.
Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
Flexible working (approximately 2-3 days in the office a week) with the option to work fully remote for a month per year.
Top spec M1 MacBook Pro and accessories.
Regular social events.
Cycle to work scheme.
The chance to join a rapidly growing, revenue-generating startup and build products that will change an industry.
The chance to work with the latest and greatest technologies, free from legacy systems and red tape.
If you’re into cars, opportunities to work with vehicle data and learn about the automotive industry. We also have some fun, car-related activities (as well as non-car fun too!)

Equal opportunities statement

Motorway is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Given the continued spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), all interviews will be conducted by phone or virtual connection to protect our candidates and employees.

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