About The Role The Software Engineering team is looking for an experienced engineer to join a product team that works closely with the business in delivering and maintaining software for our internal and external customers. It is an agile delivery environment with momentum from some recent big successes, with lots of exciting new projects also in the pipeline. Key aspects of working in an agile team at MO:
1. Focus on delivering working software
2. Blending user (customer) feedback and best practice to evolve what we deliver
3. Continuously inspect and adapt how we deliver software
4. Utilise great testing principles, TDD & automation
5. A “build to run mindset”, ensuring the software / systems we build are easy to support and operate
6. Attitude of improving life for other engineers so the next person will find things a little bit easier
7. The team is greater than the sum of its parts
About You We are looking for a Software Engineer to join this growing team. For this role we would like someone passionate about the craft of software delivery to help build great software for our business. Minimum Criteria You will have commercial java experience along with one or more technology listed below (or a relevant equivalent). We are very much looking for applicants who have an aptitude & demonstrable passion for building great software, a willingness to learn and embrace new things, and want to be a part of a supportive and empathetic cross-functional delivery team. If you have experience in any of the following areas please get in touch:
8. Spring Boot microservices
9. React and Node.js frontends, and web application development
10. Database technologies e.g. PostgreSQL
11. Messaging technologies e.g. ActiveMQ or Kafka
12. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
13. Cloud platforms, e.g. AWS, and Kubernetes platforms e.g. OpenShift
About The Company Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 630,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
We find solutions
We drive change
We care As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:
14. Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
15. 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
16. 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
17. 1 day for volunteering
18. Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
19. Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
20. Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
21. Funded health screening for over 50s
22. Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
23. Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
24. Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
25. Generous family leave policies
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.