A career driven by you. Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane. We’re not just leading the market; we’re creating it. We’re constantly innovating, evolving and transforming things for our customers. We’re driven, ambitious and determined to do our best work, together. For a career that doesn’t stand still, where you can put your ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our international community.
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Search Funnel team at AutoScout24 – the team behind the core buyer journey. This role is about real ownership: you’ll work on high-traffic systems, shape key parts of our user experience, and contribute to critical business outcomes. This role is a full stack engineer who is excited about GenAI’s boosting their own engineering performance and productivity and now wants an opportunity to influence a large, ambitious organization
The engineering world is moving very fast. We are all learning every day. Your core traits should be curiosity and a strong drive to learn and grow. We do not expect you to know everything. We expect you to help accelerate our curiosity and learning culture, and to become AI-first together with us.
What you’ll do:
- Be part of a team of strong fullstack engineers, guiding feature development using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Next.
- Drive strategic technical decisions, ensure optimal code design standards, and promote long-term system health with the team.
- Architect and maintain a modular monolith that’s clean, scalable, and built to last.
- Apply an AI-first mindset to every phase of you-build-it-you-run-it: from design and coding to testing, deployment and operations.
- Work hands-on in real product codebases (for example TypeScript/Node/Next.js or Java/Spring), using GenAI tools to accelerate development, improve quality and simplify existing systems.
- Optimise frontend performance with a strong focus on Core Web Vitals and user experience.
- Design backend services, in the cloud, that are efficient, observable, and production-ready.
- Drive A/B experimentation, performance measurement, and data-informed decisions.
- Mentor engineers across the team and foster a high-performance engineering culture.
Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, Zustand…
- Backend: Node.js, Java, REST APIs
- Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, etc.), CI/CD via GitHub Actions
- Observability: Datadog
- Other: Internal experimentation platform, analytics tooling, feature flag systems
Must haves
- Engineering experience of 10+ years
- Experience of leading team(s) of 5+ people in the last several years
- Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
- Experience driving and applying good code design principles
- Experience building and running high-traffic applications in a product-focused environment.
- Demonstrated personal excellence in using GenAI coding tools (preferably Codex) to significantly improve your own development speed and quality.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI or similar) into production applications.
- Strong understanding of frontend performance, SEO, and Core Web Vitals.
- Comfortable working with experimentation, feature flags, and data-driven iteration.
- Clear communicator and natural mentor, capable of guiding technical decisions and team growth.
Nice to Have
- Solid backend knowledge in Java and distributed systems (Scala is a plus).
- Experience in marketplace platforms or high-visibility consumer-facing products.
- Familiarity with frontend architecture at scale: routing, state, and modular UI design.
- Contributions to frontend or backend tooling, testing strategies, or performance profiling.
A culture of growth
With over 50 nationalities represented, we’re proud to welcome people of all backgrounds to our growing community, and we’re always finding new ways to help people feel welcomed and included. Here, you’ll have the tools, training and support you need to work in a way that suits you, learn new skills and reach your potential.
For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- Experience leading teams of five or more people in recent years
- Deep expertise in JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and Node.js
- Experience applying sound code design principles
- Experience building and operating high-traffic applications in a product-focused environment
- Demonstrated excellence using GenAI coding tools to improve development speed and quality
- Experience integrating LLM APIs into production applications
- Strong understanding of frontend performance, SEO, and Core Web Vitals
- Experience with experimentation, feature flags, and data-driven iteration
- Clear communication and mentoring ability
- Backend knowledge in Java and distributed systems
- Scala experience
- Experience with marketplace platforms or high-visibility consumer products
- Familiarity with frontend architecture at scale
- Contributions to tooling, testing strategies, or performance profiling
What We Do
We spark connections to move the world. As the largest pan-European online car market with around 1.5 million listings and more than 43,000 car dealer partners AutoScout24 offers inspiring solutions and empowering services. We amaze our customers by delivering real values. At AutoScout24, users can find, finance, buy, subscribe, lease and sell used as well as new cars. AutoScout24 smyle, our latest innovation, enables you to buy used cars entirely online and have them delivered right to your doorstep. Fully financed, insured, and registered – ready to drive! Think big, stay curious, take ownership: over 600 AutoScouts in 6 key markets are driving growth, all while moving, working and winning together. We foster a respectful and supportive environment that embodies diversity. AutoScout24 is committed to making the internet a safer place. We are one of the founding members of the initiative "Sicherer Autokauf im Internet” (Initiative for Safe Car Purchasing Online). With around 50 million downloads, the AutoScout24 app was awarded the best, most customer-friendly app by Focus-Money (FOCUS-MONEY study "Kundenfreundliche Apps", issue (15/21)
