Principal Java Engineer, Oodle Car Finance
+ Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme
1-3 days a week in office
Motor finance company
Be an early applicant
Motor finance company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme
1-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the car-buying and ownership journey as easy & simple as possible for ‘Oodle Customers’.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in Java development, with at least 3 years in a senior or principal role
- Strong knowledge of Java 17+ and frameworks such as Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems
- Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems
What the job involves
- As a Principal Java Engineer, you will be a technical leader and subject matter expert in Java-based software development
- You will architect, design, and implement scalable, high-performance systems while mentoring engineering teams and driving best practices
- This role requires a deep understanding of Java, modern software architecture, and a passion for innovation and quality
- Lead the design and development of complex Java applications and backend services
- Define and uphold coding standards, architecture, and engineering best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn business requirements into technical solutions
- Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance
- Drive continuous improvement in tools, technologies, and team processes
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented Java code
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle—from planning to deployment
- Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance through proactive monitoring and optimisation
Application process
- ☎️ Preliminary Interview (30 mins)
- 📲 Technical Interview (1 Hour)
- 🔦 Final Interview (1 hour) with the hiring manager and a member of the team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Oodle was founded in order to simplify car buying and ownership by providing an easy and transparent way of supplying buyers with car finance to facilitate a seamless and enjoyable customer experience.
It aims to revolutionise how people buy cars by prioritising customer needs and utilising modern technologies to update the used car market. Oodle primarily supplies loans to customers and puts them in contact with the UK's best-rated car dealers in a rapid digital procedure.
This customer-first, fully integrated digital retail experience is backed by powerful algorithms, their proprietary loan technology, machine learning, and Big Data infrastructure.
Oodle now has branches in Oxford, Manchester, and London, acquiring Carsnip in December 2018 to become their go-to car search engine provider.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2017
$80.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $80.6m
Company benefits
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Pension (5% Employer 4% Employee Contribution)
- Private Healthcare
- Death in Service Benefit (Salary x 4)
- Salary Sacrifice Electric Car Scheme via Tusker
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing to 28 days after 3 years service.
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Oodle Academy - Full training and development
- Flexible Working Policy
- Paid day off to Volunteer with our nominated charity
- Complimentary Breakfast and snacks - you wont go hungry!
- Mentoring scheme
- Mental Health Support
- Mentoring Program
- Access to free counselling
Company values
- Think Customer: they're at the heart of everything we do
- Everyone’s a Builder: we’re in this together and we win as a team
- Embrace being Human: empathy and diversity make us stronger together
- Strive for Awesome: it's awesome when we do better every day
- Bravely Honest: we're honest with ourselves and everyone else
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
Articles
Leadership
Richard Gaskin
(CEO)Jonathan Clayton
(Founder & Director)Previously Managing Partner at Venn Partners, Managing Director at Credit Suisse and AIG Financial Products.
People progressing
Joining as Business Transformation Lead, Jess has had an incredibly successful journey at Oodle - she was promoted to Chief of Staff in 2022, and then to COO in 2023.
Greg joined Oodle in 2019 as a Data Analyst and progressed to Quantitative Analyst in June 2021, and to a Senior role in the team by August 2022. In 2024, he became a Senior Manager in the team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Oodle Car Finance
Heidi (Physick )
- We run mandatory unconcious-bias training every year and for all new starters, and have a number related webinars available in our Oodle Academy.
- We have D&I Networks meeting monthly, covering Gender, Ethnicity and LGBTQ+ Each group has at least one Executive Committee member involved.
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