Motorway
Motorway
Motorway is a UK automotive marketplace that uses technology to make selling a used car faster and simpler. Founded in 2017, the platform lets vehicle owners receive competitive offers from a network of more than 5,000 professional car dealers, who bid directly on cars listed for sale. Motorway supports the process online, helping sellers complete transactions from home and, according to the company, has helped more than 2.5 million customers value and sell their vehicles.

Staff Frontend Engineer - Motorway (Hybrid, UK)

Lead frontend engineering at Motorway, the UK's largest online car-selling platform, with a focus on TypeScript and React. Shape engineering standards, migrations, security, reliability, and AI-assisted development.

Description

  • Set frontend technical direction across multiple cross-functional squads
  • Deliver product capabilities from design handoff through production
  • Create accessible, high-performance components and integrate them into applications
  • Define API contracts and maintain department documentation
  • Own a technical roadmap with clear intent, trade-offs, and success measures
  • Improve consistency across web properties and lead frontend migrations
  • Establish frontend security practices covering CSP, XSS prevention, data governance, reliability, incident reviews, and production readiness
  • Own and enhance asset and service build and deployment pipelines
  • Guide hosting, vendor, and build-versus-buy decisions with commercial awareness
  • Mentor IC3 engineers toward technical leadership and strengthen hiring standards
  • Advance AI-assisted engineering practices with Kiro and other AI tools

Requirements

  • At least five years of focused frontend experience building and operating production web applications at scale
  • A record of leading large, complex engineering projects
  • Ability to work fluently across engineering and product while making difficult technical decisions amid uncertainty
  • Established authority in frontend engineering
  • Advanced knowledge of modern CSS/SCSS, HTML, and current ECMAScript proposals
  • Strong understanding of frontend framework trade-offs
  • Extensive experience with unit and end-to-end testing and CI workflow development
  • Deep working knowledge of TypeScript, modern React, and frameworks including Next.js
  • Experience across different teams, including decisions to build, refactor, or replace systems
  • A genuine interest in leading AI-assisted development
  • Experience owning a design system and driving adoption across multiple teams (preferred)
  • Ability to produce practical UI designs independently for non-trivial work (preferred)
  • Deep experience with observability, Core Web Vitals, accessibility audits, and frontend performance optimization (preferred)
  • Experience assessing vendors and third-party tools and recommending build-versus-buy approaches (preferred)
  • Experience maintaining and evolving complex legacy systems at scale (preferred)
  • Backend fluency and confidence shaping API contracts (preferred)

Benefits

  • Access to the latest AI models through Kiro
  • Optional participation in a diversity survey
  • Consent-based possibility of being contacted about future job opportunities for up to one year

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