Senior Developer Experience Platform Engineer
MotorwayLondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted February 3, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Motorway is the UK's fastest-growing used car marketplace, aiming to transform the used car market.
Job Description
Motorway is a used car marketplace that is looking for a Senior Developer Experience Platform Engineer to help build and evolve their Developer Experience team. The role involves owning and evolving AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, designing and building opinionated tooling, and reducing manual work by automating common workflows.
Requirements
- Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale.
- Strong experience with AWS in a production environment.
- Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms, with a strong intuition for actionable vs noisy signals.
- Experience working with platform-level security controls and observability, including identifying and responding to abnormal or unsafe system behaviour.
- Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems that support safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments.
- Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment and improving systems based on what you learn.
- Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
- Proficient with at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.
- Enjoy solving complex, cross-cutting problems in collaboration with engineers across the organisation
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and priorities.
- Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and the wider engineering organisation.
Benefits
- A competitive salary
- BUPA health insurance
- Discounted gym membership through BUPA
- OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
- Hybrid working
- Pension scheme
- Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
- Enhanced parental leave - We offer enhanced maternity pay (26 weeks of full pay) and enhanced paternity pay (4 weeks of full pay) to eligible employees.
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme
