Principal Mobile Apps Platform Engineer
Autotrader2 months ago
Manchester, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for Autotrader’s server-driven UI mobile platform.
- Develop and maintain backend Kotlin services that support the server-driven UI framework.
- Drive scalable, performant, and maintainable architecture across mobile applications.
- Lead system design and architecture decisions and advocate engineering best practices.
- Mentor and coach engineers while sharing technical expertise across teams.
- Support unit testing, refactoring, RESTful API design, and regression test automation.
Requirements
- Proven experience with Kotlin Multiplatform, Gradle, and Spring Boot.
- Experience building and supporting mobile applications.
- Proficiency with at least one mobile development toolset: Swift, Xcode, and Instruments for iOS, or Kotlin, Jetpack, and Android Studio for Android.
- Strong understanding of unit testing and RESTful API design.
- Experience mentoring and coaching engineers and advocating best practices.
Benefits
- £60,000–£80,000 salary plus annual share awards worth an additional 10% of salary.
- 28 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- Comprehensive private medical cover.
- Pension scheme with standard employer contributions of 7% and employee contributions of 5%.
- Enhanced family leave, car salary sacrifice, and share-save options.
- 24/7 online GP and dentist access plus specialist wellbeing support.
- Hybrid Connected Working model requiring a minimum of three office days per week.
- Remote-first periods during summer and winter, allowing remote work from anywhere in the UK and certain locations abroad.
About Autotrader
Autotrader operates a U.S. online marketplace that connects car buyers with dealers and private sellers, offering listings, search filters, pricing guidance, and financing tools. Its revenue comes from dealer subscriptions, advertising, and paid private-seller listings. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Atlanta, it is part of Cox Automotive, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises.