Mid Backend Engineer

A bit about us...

Please allow us to celebrate our own success for a moment... We've built a customer-centric product that is market-leading, and we are smashing it!

We're a multi-award-winning digital payments and insight platform within the automotive industry. We work with over 5,000 automotive retailers, helping drivers to pay for motoring costs, accessories, and other services through a variety of different payment options. Our purpose is to build a solution that gives drivers peace of mind while enhancing customer experience and assisting with dealer profitability.

Bumper is a fast-growing payments scale‑up and we’re excited to continue building on our growth having completed a successful Series B funding round in 2024. We’re looking to hire a dynamic and passionate Mid Backend Engineer based in either Sheffield or London
.

In 2024,
AutoBI joined the Bumper Group. AutoBI are setting out to revolutionise how dealerships and partners in the automotive sector track and enhance performance
.

Our cutting‑edge, data‑driven solution delivers real‑time insights across CRM, Sales, Service, and Part – all through a unified platform powered by Microsoft Power BI. With AutoBI’s comprehensive dashboards, dealerships can access, analyse, and act on the insights they need, all in one place.

Check out our website to find out more.

Our Head Office is in Sheffield City Centre, with offices also based in London and Turkey. We’ve also expanded further, bringing retailers in Ireland, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands on board, with the vision of being the leading automotive payment and insights platform!

We’re looking for a Midlevel Backend Engineer to join our passionate and fast‑moving Tech Team. You will play a crucial role in developing and improving AutoBI’s backend applications, data integrations, and AI‑powered insight tools
, including LLM‑driven features that enhance data analysis and reporting – contributing to the delivery of high‑quality software solutions
, whilst ensuring they are user‑friendly, accessible and high‑performing web applications. You’ll report directly to our Engineering Manager and work closely with teams across Bumper to ensure that our frontend applications are seamless
.

This is a full‑time hybrid role working from either of our UK offices (
Sheffield or London – Hammersmith
). Our ideal candidate would be able to work at least three days per week from one of these locations.

• Collaborate with all relevant departments to deliver end to end features
• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
• Using Git for version control and tracking code changes
• Write secure, maintainable and well documented code
• Diagnosing and resolving system issues across the platform
• Debugging and maintaining applications while ensuring code efficiency and performance
• Attend review meetings and make meaningful contributions to maintain code quality and optimise performance
• Contribute to backend infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring/logging
• Contribute to AI‑driven insight generation by integrating LLMs with structured data sources (e.g. SQL, Power BI datasets) to enhance reporting and analytics capabilities

We are a passionate and professional team, and we’re excited to welcome a Mid Backend Engineer who shares our vision of making Bumper the leading automotive payment and insights platform! In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment where data‑driven decision‑making is at the heart of everything we do
. If you are an outgoing
self‑starter who enjoys new challenges and new technologies
, we’d love to hear from you!

• 4+ years of experience developing backend systems in a production environment
• 4+ years’ experience with Python and Django/Flask
• Strong knowledge of SQL databases and experience optimising database performance
• Experience building and integrating applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g. OpenAI, Azure OpenAI)
• Experience with CI/CD, testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library), or design
• Understanding of software design principles and…