Java Engineer, Oodle Car Finance

Salary not provided

+ Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Java
Kotlin
Spring
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

1-3 days a week in office

Oodle Car Finance

Motor finance company

Be an early applicant

Oodle Car Finance

Motor finance company

201-500 employees

FintechB2CCarsPersonal financeLendingFinancial ServiceseCommerce

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Java
Kotlin
Spring
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

1-3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

FintechB2CCarsPersonal financeLendingFinancial ServiceseCommerce

Company mission

To make the car-buying and ownership journey as easy & simple as possible for ‘Oodle Customers’.

Role

Who you are

  • Excellent knowledge of Java is required. Experience with Kotlin is a plus but not essential
  • Familiarity with Spring Boot or a similar framework
  • Good experience with microservices and API design
  • Experience with AWS (or other cloud providers), Docker and general devops practises
  • Good knowledge around architecting and developing solutions that span the full
  • A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Great written and verbal communication skills
  • Capable of “rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty.”

What the job involves

  • Are you an experienced Java Engineer looking to work in a growing Fintech startup?
  • Do you enjoy creating scalable, robust micro services in an agile based environment?
  • Do you enjoy working with like-minded, talented developers to build intelligent systems using the latest technology?
  • If so, Oodle would love to speak to you!
  • You’ll be a core part of the team taking the charge to build Oodle’s back-end services to take advantage of Oodle’s data, system APIs and third-party API integrations
  • Come and join our talented new team, where you’ll help to disrupt a market, and support software processing millions of pounds worth of loan applications every day
  • Work on a variety of services to build and expose back-end functionality for front-end clients (mobile and web)
  • Work closely with product managers and technical colleagues to provide API services
  • When required, support front-end developers to integrate into back-end services
  • Support new technical initiatives for the team to improve security, convenience, and reliability of our systems
  • Work with other teams and team leaders to build strong cross-team
  • Prototype and explore new technologies that could benefit the team and Oodle as a whole
  • Support code standards and practices
  • ⏰37.5 hours per week

Application process

  • ☎️ Initial screening (30 mins)
  • 💻 Online Test
  • 📹 Teams call with Head of Product (30 mins)
  • 🔦 Technical discussion and Competency (1 hour)

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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Insights

Strong hiring activity

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

48% female employees

-27% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Open and honest communication

"Open and honest communication is a part of our core values in the business, and is practised at all levels of the business. At Oodle, all employees..."

Funding (1 round)

Jan 2017

$77.9m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $77.9m

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

City Centre, Oxford, UK

Leadership

Philip Williams

(Founder & Chief Commercial Officer )

Jonny Clayton

(Founder )

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.

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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