Overview
Position Title:Principal Developer – Data Engineering
Company:Auto Trader UK
Location:Brighton, UK
Job Description:
We’re looking for Principal Developers to join our Data Engineering team. The team builds and evolves our data platform which allows our product teams and business users to generate insight. Auto Trader makes data-informed decisions; enabling data platform users and product teams to self-serve their needs is key. To achieve this, we work closely with our Data Scientists and Data Analysts to productionise data products and machine learning algorithms. Data Engineering developers champion data culture across Auto Trader by combining their technical ability with a data-focused approach.
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring all infrastructure is written as reusable code for future use
- Building systems that are designed to tolerate failure
- Capacity planning
- Optimization of our platform for maximum speed and scalability
- Troubleshooting performance issues and working with application squads to continuously improve application performance and availability
- Implementation of secure access and security enhancements
About Auto Trader UK
We’re proud of our people-centred culture, which, combined with our tech and data expertise, makes us one of the UK’s leading companies.
We started life as a magazine in 1977, and we’ve grown and evolved alongside our customers. In 2013 we became a fully digital business, and we’re proud of our rich heritage, which gives us over 40 years of brand heritage and trust.
Our purpose is to lead the future of the UK's digital automotive marketplace. We aim to improve the process of buying and selling vehicles in the UK by continually evolving the ecosystem to provide a better experience for consumers, retailers and manufacturers alike.
