Position: JavaScript (Node.js) Developer for Motorway
Company: Ciklum
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Motorway** is reinventing how cars are bought and sold online. Our mission is to bring the car industry into the future through ground-breaking products and best in class technology. 

**Our key products are:**
The first comparison website for selling your car (motorway.co.uk), enabling sellers to compare multiple real time offers from car buying companies and sell their car in 24 hours. This is a high scale web application with 350,000 users per month.
An online marketplace for used cars (pro.motorway.co.uk) where professional dealers can search, view and bid on vehicles for sale. This is a brand new product with an aggressive roadmap to develop into a full B2B SaaS tool.
The technical platform that manages vehicle, seller and buyer data and powers our user-facing web apps. The platform deals with large volumes of data and interfaces with dozens of third party APIs and services.
We operate a JavaScript monostack, using latest JS features heavily. We use PostgreSQL with the Sequelize ORM and Redis databases. We are currently deployed on Heroku using a microservices architecture. Our team uses Git flow on GitHub, and we have an agile development process.

**Responsibilities:**
• Architecting and developing JavaScript code, launching new features and optimising performance
• Solving interesting performance and caching problems as our traffic continues to scale
• Developing the code and business logic for the backend platform that powers the whole business
• Organising and structuring platform code to make it highly efficient, maintainable and reusable
• Working with third party APIs and web services (REST, SOAP, etc) to provide real-time valuations and submit vehicle and customer information to car buyers
• Working with our data layer (PostgreSQL & Redis), helping to make changes to the schema and creating tools and reports to help us understand our performance
• Working with our infrastructure (currently Heroku and AWS) to scale as we grow, and provide the highest possible performance
• Working in our flat-structured development team, and getting involved in the technical and product strategy of the business
• Working closely with front-end, design and product teams to support client apps
• Championing and implementing software development best practices to ensure our code is high quality, well-tested, scalable and secure
• Experimenting with new techniques, tools and frameworks to keep us at the cutting edge of modern JavaScript development
• You’ll perform this role across all our collection of microservices (node.js with Express and Sequelize) that power our user-facing applications through RESTful APIs.

**Requirements:**
• A degree in Computer Science; or a maths, science or engineering subject
• At least four years of commercial experience working with web apps, websites and APIs in a production environment
• Experience working with JavaScript. In particular we are interested in people with experience of ES2016/2017 features, and technologies and frameworks such as node.js, Express and Sequelize
• Experience working with relational databases and NoSQL databases, including complex queries and performance optimization
• Experience configuring, deploying and monitoring apps and websites on PaaS services such as Heroku or AWS
• Experience working with version control, automated testing and continuous integration
• Experience of agile software development practices and working collaboratively in a team environment
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• A passion for technology and software, demonstrated by personal projects, blog posts or contributions to open source projects
• A can-do attitude with a willingness to work hard, both on your own and as part of a team

**What's in it for you:**
• Be part of a rapidly growing startup at the early stage
• Have a competitive salary
• Have the opportunity for fast career progression
• Build products that will change an entire industry
• Develop your skills and experience rapidly, and get ongoing training and support
• Work with people that are passionate about what they do
• Have the opportunity for paid visits to our offices in London
• Enjoy regular social events