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We are heycar

Since August 2019, we’ve been making it easier for customers to find the right vehicle, and for automotive retailers to sell them.

We are heycar

Since August 2019, we’ve been making it easier for customers to find the right vehicle, and for automotive retailers to sell them.

More recently, we’ve been on a journey…

In June 2025 we were acquired by Volkswagen Financial Services UK (VWFS UK) and our mission is simple: build the right tech solutions for Volkswagen Group UK and its retailers, so they can deliver the best possible experiences to their customers.

We’re a mix of problem-solvers, innovators, and team players who care about doing great work and making a difference. We thrive on collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to excellence. We deliver impactful solutions at pace that put the customer at the centre.

If you're looking for a meaningful challenge, and want to help shape the future of automotive experiences, then read on…

About The Role

Join the team and play a pivotal role in building highly scalable and maintainable backend services. You'll have the opportunity to leverage and suggest the latest tools and techniques, collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Sales teams. We encourage sharing technical solutions and product ideas through code and design reviews, pair programming, and presentations, all while continuously improving our Agile processes.

What You’ll Do

Our culture empowers our talented developers to develop using whichever tools we need to get the job done. To face the many challenges, including brilliant customer experience, data processing, microservice architecture and more.

• Hands on building highly scalable and maintainable backend services.
• Use appropriate tools for development and being proactive in suggesting new tools, frameworks or techniques
• Collaborate across functional teams including Product, Design and Sales
• Share technical solutions and product ideas through code and design reviews, pair programming, and presentations
• Highlight areas we can improve on as a team practising Agile processes
  
  

• Strong technical skills to build scalable backend services, primarily in Python (in any framework)
• Analytical skills: a love for problem solving, and improving our working processes. We are always learning
• A good understanding of databases, OO design, data structures and SOLID principles
• Strong desire to work collaboratively with both your peers and business teams
• The ability to communicate technical concepts to other members of the team.
  
  

• Compensation: We offer a competitive salary + performance based bonus
• Holidays: We want you to relax, you’ll have 28 days off (plus bank holidays) throughout the year. We also give you an extra day off to enjoy your birthday!
• Benefits + Perks: With private medical insurance, learning and development opportunities and mental health support we’ll give you the extra boost.
• Hybrid Working: We have a flexible working culture here at heycar. With hybrid working in our offices in Holborn (London) and working from home days.
• Feedback: You'll be joining more than just another scale up - our team are at the heart of everything we do; here we don’t leave things unsaid, we encourage honest feedback.
• A Challenge: Fast paced but not fraught. So we need you to keep up, push back and question where you see fit.
• Fun: We provide a fully stocked kitchen and bar, an awesome office environment and epic socials.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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