Java Engineer

🌏 London, Manchester or Oxford (Hybrid)

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

⏰37.5 hours per week

💖 Our perks

  • 🌏25 days holiday plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.
  • 🤸 Hybrid working – you’ll be able to split your time between working in the office and at home.
  • ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
  • 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced sick pay.
  • 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
  • 🤒Healthcare plan – free healthcare via Vitality for you and your family. You’ll receive money back on health appointments e.g. dental, optical and more.
  • 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future.
  • 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.
  • 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.
  • 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to be the UK’s simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!

We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 6 years, we’ve supported 100,000’s of customers on their car buying journey and achieved 4.7* Trustpilot score.

We’re a fast-paced technology business who are already disrupting the car market and have an exciting roadmap for 2024! 

🙌 The Role

Are you an experienced Java Engineer looking to work in a growing Fintech startup? Do you enjoy creating scalable, robust micro services in an agile based environment? Do you enjoy working with like-minded, talented developers to build intelligent systems using the latest technology? If so, Oodle would love to speak to you!

The Team

You’ll be a core part of the team taking the charge to build Oodle’s back-end services to take advantage of Oodle’s data, system APIs and third-party API integrations. 

Come and join our talented new team, where you’ll help to disrupt a market, and support software processing millions of pounds worth of loan applications every day.  

What you’ll need 

  • Excellent knowledge of Java is required. Experience with Kotlin is a plus but not essential. 
  • Familiarity with Spring Boot or a similar framework.
  • Good experience with microservices and API design.
  • Experience with AWS (or other cloud providers), Docker and general devops practises.
  • Good knowledge around architecting and developing solutions that span the full
  • A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Great written and verbal communication skills.
  • Capable of “rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty.”

What you’ll do 

  • Work on a variety of services to build and expose back-end functionality for front-end clients (mobile and web).
  • Work closely with product managers and technical colleagues to provide API services.
  • When required, support front-end developers to integrate into back-end services.
  • Support new technical initiatives for the team to improve security, convenience, and reliability of our systems.
  • Work with other teams and team leaders to build strong cross-team  
  • Prototype and explore new technologies that could benefit the team and Oodle as a whole. 
  • Support code standards and practices. 

What we’ll give you in return 

  • A chance to really disrupt the car finance industry!
  • Working with a bleeding edge cloud-native tech stack using modern Java, Kubernetes, Github, and a wide variety of AWS services.
  • Work with an exceptional team and people within Oodle.
  • A personalised training
  • Work in a contemporary office space.
  • Generous compensation package.

👩‍💻 Hiring Process

  • ☎️ Initial screening (30 mins)
  • 💻 Online Test 
  • 📹 Teams call with Head of Product (30 mins)
  • 🔦 Technical discussion and Competency (1 hour)

💚 Our Values

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.

  • Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.
  • Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.
  • Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.
  • Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.
  • Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do.

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram. 

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email careers@oodlefinance.com.

 

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