Senior Software Engineer, AutoScout24
AI Enabler
New & used car marketplace
Job no longer available
New & used car marketplace
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help make mobility decisions easier for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leveraging AI and Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance engineering productivity — including code generation, debugging, reviews, documentation, and decision support — with a proactive mindset toward adopting tools that streamline development and drive innovation
- Deep, hands-on experience building production systems (we expect you’ve spent at least 5 years doing this, possibly much more), ideally with PHP and Laravel as well as TypeScript/Node.js/Next.js on AWS, Azure or GCP
- Demonstrated personal excellence in using GenAI coding tools (for example GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex) to significantly improve your own development speed and quality: code generation, refactoring, debugging, tests and documentation
- Experience integrating LLM APIs (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI or similar) into applications or internal tools
- Strong communication and influencing skills: you can introduce new tools and practices, align stakeholders, handle skepticism and iterate based on feedback
- A curious, growth-oriented mindset: you actively seek out new practices and tools, you are comfortable learning in public, and you help others do the same
- A pragmatic view of GenAI: you understand its limitations and risks and know how to put guardrails in place (reviews, tests, policies) to keep usage safe, compliant and sustainable at scale
- Experience with performance optimization, caching strategies, and system observability is a plus
What the job involves
- To keep growing and driving innovation in the mobility space, we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our high-performance team at our Düsseldorf office
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and developing robust, scalable applications that power one of the largest automotive leasing marketplaces in Europe
- You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team to build and evolve solutions that are architecturally sound, easy to maintain, and built for long-term impact
- You’ll help shape technical direction while raising the bar for software quality and stability across the platform
- Join one of our builders’ teams to build great products loved by our customers
- Apply an AI-first mindset to every phase of you-build-it-you-run-it: from design and coding to testing, deployment and operations
- Work hands-on in real product codebases (for example TypeScript/Node/Next.js or Java/Spring), using GenAI tools to accelerate development, improve quality and simplify existing systems
- Build and evolve AI-powered internal tools and workflows (assistants for coding, reviews, documentation, testing) that engineers across AutoScout24 can rely on every day
- Act as a multiplier and culture driver: coach teams on effective GenAI usage, share patterns and anti-patterns, and help establish AI-first ways of working across our engineering organization
- Experiment, measure and improve: run small, data-informed experiments with teams, learn what works in our context, and turn successful approaches into repeatable standards and playbooks
Our take
AutoScout24 is an online classifieds platform for new and used vehicles that’s been expanding its reach across European markets for over two decades now. It has benefitted from an upswing in interest in used cars, taking advantage of this opportunity to grow and solidify its presence.
In 2024, the company further expanded its reach by acquiring Canada's Trader Corporation, showing it has an appetite for continued expansion. It also focused in on its C2B auction platform, AutoScout24 Direct, that enables individuals to sell their vehicles through an online auction to verified dealers.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Au-Haidhausen, Munich, Germany
Leadership
Peter Brooks-Johnson
(CEO)Joined AutoScout24 in 2023 at CEO. Prior to this, spent over 16 years at Rightmove as a Product Director and CEO. Also an experienced Consultant having worked at The Berkeley Partnership and Andersen Consulting.
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