Senior Software Engineer - Systems Improvement & Scale
2 days ago
Enfield
💻 We’re Hiring: Senior Software Engineer – Systems Improvement & Scale 🏢 Company: Car Planet 📍 Location: Enfield 🕘 Full-Time (Open to initial contract trial) Car Planet is a fast-growing car supermarket and automotive retail business building and running our own in-house platforms — including Autogrid (our core Dealer Management System), plus supporting systems like Audiofy (call intelligence) and RoutePortal (logistics & routing). We’re looking for a senior, pragmatic software engineer to inspect, stabilise, and improve live, revenue-critical systems as the business scales. You’ll work hands-on with existing production systems to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability — without disrupting day-to-day operations. 🔹 What You’ll Be Doing • Take ownership of an existing production codebase, • Identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and architectural risks, • Improve system stability, scalability, and maintainability incrementally, • Safely refactor critical areas without disrupting live operations, • Work across multiple internal systems:, • Primary ownership: Autogrid, • Secondary oversight: Audiofy & RoutePortal, • Review code and raise engineering standards, • Partner closely with the CEO, product, and operations teams, • Turn business problems into practical technical solutions 🔹 What We’re Looking For Essential ✔️ 5+ years professional software development experience ✔️ Proven experience working on live production systems ✔️ Full-stack JavaScript / TypeScript (Next.js, Node, APIs, databases) ✔️ Python experience (scripting, services, tooling, data processing) ✔️ Strong refactoring and system-improvement skills ✔️ Comfortable in fast-moving, imperfect environments ✔️ Able to work autonomously with strong judgement on priorities & risk Highly Desirable ⭐ C# / .NET experience ⭐ Startup or scale-up background ⭐ Technical leadership experience ⭐ Experience across multiple internal products 🔹 The Package 💰 Salary: £40,000 – £60,000 (DOE) 📝 Open to initial contract engagement before permanent hire Benefits: • 28 days annual leave (incl. Bank Holidays), • Company events, • Employee discount 🕘 Working Hours: Monday – Friday | 09:00 – 18:00 📍 On-site in Enfield 📩 Interested or know someone who fits this well? Send me a message or apply directly — we’d love to talk 👋