Principal Full Stack Engineer - Full or Part Time
AutoTrader UK
Overview
In this Principal Full Stack Engineer role, you will shape system design and architecture for Autotrader’s large-scale platform, spanning millions of requests daily. You’ll mentor teams, drive high-quality solutions, and collaborate across cross-functional squads. You’ll work with Java, Spring Boot, React/Angular, and modern data stores to build scalable, reliable software that powers a diverse marketplace. This is an opportunity to influence engineering culture and delivery at scale, in a collaborative, people-first environment.
Pay / Benefits- salary 60,000–80,000
- annual 10% share award
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- private medical cover
- pension scheme
- car salary sacrifice scheme
- Design scalable backend and frontend architectures
- Mentor and lead engineering teams
- Drive high-quality delivery at scale
- Collaborate across cross-functional teams to align on architecture
- Promote best practices such as TDD and continuous delivery
- Experience across the stack from backend to frontend
- Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot and JVM ecosystem
- Architecting complex distributed systems that are scalable and maintainable
- Frontend experience with React or Angular and TypeScript/modern JavaScript
- Strong SQL and MongoDB experience
- Experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures
- Structured development and testing approach with automation and CD
- Proven leadership and mentoring ability
- Collaborative mindset
- Mentoring and coaching
- Strong communication
- Java
- Spring Boot
- React or Angular
Reference: WJ-747_30163744