Permanent Full Time | Hybrid | Gateshead | £30,000–£50,000 depending on experience
The Opportunity
We’re hiring Software Engineers to join our team at Vertu Motors Plc. — a business that buys and sells cars, parts, and time across 190+ dealerships nationwide, supported by technology built and maintained by a tight-knit team of engineers.
The problems we solve are real and close to the surface: how do customers find the right vehicle, how do our 7,500+ colleagues get the information they need at the right moment, and how does a business running at £4bn annual revenue stay operationally sharp? We build the systems that answer those questions — across customer-facing platforms, colleague-enabling tools, and business efficiency software.
What You’ll Work On
Your first 30 days will be about understanding the codebase, the team’s rhythm, and the business context behind what we build — getting familiar with how we ship software and where you can start adding value alongside the rest of the team. By 90 days, you’ll be contributing to features and fixes across our product areas, pairing with teammates, and developing a clear picture of how the systems fit together. At six months, you’ll be actively contributing to various parts of the team’s code estate — picking up work across the stack, supporting each other’s delivery, and helping us ship with confidence.
This is a team role through and through. We pair, review each other’s code, and solve problems together. Psychological safety is non-negotiable — there are no silly questions, no heroics, no single points of failure.
What We’re Looking For
* AI-assisted development: You’re already using tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor as part of how you work. This is part of our day‑to‑day workflow, not a future aspiration.
* AI product integration: Experience embedding AI capabilities directly into a product — whether that’s LLM‑powered features, AI APIs, agents, or similar.
* Robotics and/or automation experience: You have worked on products in the robotics or automation space — whether that’s process automation, robotic process automation (RPA), physical robotics systems, or similar. This is a core part of the work we do and direct experience is required.
* Cloud experience: Hands‑on work with AWS or Azure — deploying, managing, and troubleshooting services in production environments.
* Polyglot mindset: Comfort working across multiple languages. Our stack is Golang, C#, TypeScript, and Python. You don’t need to be fluent in all of them, but you need to be the kind of engineer who picks up new languages with confidence and switches between them without friction.
* Full stack delivery: Experience working across the stack — frontend, backend, APIs, and data. Exposure to serverless technologies (Lambda, event‑driven architectures, or equivalent) is expected.
* Executable and tooling development: Experience writing standalone tools, CLI utilities, background workers, or scripts — the kind of engineering that goes beyond web applications.
* Database experience: SQL (Aurora PostgreSQL/RDS) or NoSQL (DynamoDB)
* Data engineering: Experience with data integration, pipelines, or data platform work
* Application modernisation: Breaking apart monoliths, containerisation, or event‑driven refactoring
About Vertu Motors Plc.
Twenty years under the same leadership team has given us genuine stability and a clear direction. We recently completed a significant “One Vertu” transformation, consolidating Bristol Street Motors and Macklin Motors into a single unified platform — a major engineering undertaking that’s still delivering change. Our technology mission is simple to describe and hard to execute: understand complexity, deliver simplicity.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday rising with length of service, plus bank holidays
* Access to our online rewards platform, giving you cash back and discounts for multiple retailers
* Preferential Service Rates
* Colleague Purchase Scheme
* Share Incentive Scheme
* Pension
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity
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