Company brief · updated 2026-10-18
autotrader.com · e-commerce
Today: UK automotive marketplace bringing together vehicle buyers and sellers
Roles: Principal Data Scientist · Senior Data Scientist
Requirements mention: ML frameworks and workflows · deployment and monitoring strategies · customer data platform · Databricks · MLFlow
Inference: Autotrader is hiring senior ML staff to build the four products both postings name. The roles sit in different departments (Product & Technology; Data Science & Analytics), and the Principal role opened in October 2026.
Today: Marketplace where consumers research, refine and buy in one place (Data Analyst postings)
Roles: Principal Mobile Apps Platform Engineer · Data Analyst · Senior Data Analyst
Requirements mention: Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) · regression test automation · analysing user behaviour · experimentation programmes
Inference: mobile engineering and consumer analytics hiring points to continued work on the online buying journey, with experimentation used to measure it. The postings give no launch date, and all three opened in May 2026.
Today: Advertising and data products sold to automotive brands (OEMs) and their media partners, independent retailers, and large and strategic accounts
Roles: Account Manager (Brand Partnerships) · Senior Account Manager (Field Based - Large & Strategic Accounts) · Account Manager (Field based) · New Business Consultant
Requirements mention: B2B account management · outbound and phone-based sales · Customer Success · commercial KPIs
Inference: three of the four Partnerships roles opened in October 2026, which suggests a current push on account management across OEM brand partnerships, independent retailers and large accounts. The postings do not say how the team is structured.
Today: Reward, benefits and wellbeing offerings across Autotrader (Senior Reward Advisor posting)
Roles: Senior Reward Advisor · Reward Manager
Requirements mention: reward governance · pension arrangements · share plans · market benchmarking
none (weak signal)
Today: New Car product: New Car Stock, Enhanced, Zero Stock and onboarding (Senior Account Manager (New Car) posting)
Roles: Senior Account Manager (New Car)
Requirements mention: proactively mitigating commercial churn · setting team targets and KPIs
none (weak signal, one role)
Today: UK automotive marketplace systems, handling millions of requests a day across over 600 systems
Roles: Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Full or Part Time · Principal Software Engineer, Backend - Full or Part Time
Requirements mention: Kafka messaging/streaming · Apache Solr · Document/Map based storage
none (weak signal: both postings have been open since February 2022 and read as evergreen hiring)
| Department | Open |
|---|---|
| Engineering | 6 |
| Data Science & Analytics | 4 |
| Partnerships | 3 |
| People & Culture | 2 |
| Commercial Data | 1 |
| Consumer Performance | 1 |
| Performance - New Car | 1 |
18 open roles for Autotrader's UK marketplace. Engineering is the largest department (6), followed by Partnerships (4), Data Science & Analytics (3), People & Culture (2), and one each in Product & Technology, Go To Market and Performance - New Car. 14 of the 18 are in Manchester; 7 opened in the last 30 days, none of them in Engineering, where 4 of the 6 roles have been open since 2022–2025.
Seniority: Senior 8, principal 4, mid 3, manager 1, director 1, junior 1; 14 of 18 roles are senior or above.
Skills named most: SQL, dbt, Spring Boot, Java, Looker, Spark, Python, Kotlin, Databricks, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, RESTful API
Locations: Manchester 14, London 1, London or Manchester 1; 2 roles (both Partnerships account management) are listed as Remote, with no country given. Salaries are in pounds sterling.
If you're applying: Most roles are in Manchester and senior or above. Engineering and data roles list Java, Spring Boot, SQL, Python and Databricks. The newest openings are in Partnerships, data science and reward. Check the full requirements on each posting before applying.
If you're selling or recruiting: 7 roles opened in the last 30 days: 3 in Partnerships, 2 in People & Culture (reward), a Principal Data Scientist and a Director of Corporate Affairs. Engineering has the most open roles, but these are long-standing postings rather than new demand. Expect a Manchester-heavy hiring pool.
| Title | Department | Location | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical Writer (12 month FTC) | Commercial Data | Southampton | 2026-10-20 |
| Senior Performance Marketing Manager | Consumer Performance | Manchester | 2026-10-15 |
| Senior Reward Advisor | People & Culture | Manchester | 2026-10-08 |
| Reward Manager | People & Culture | Manchester | 2026-10-08 |
| Principal Data Scientist | Data Science & Analytics | Manchester | 2026-10-06 |
| Account Manager (Field based) | Partnerships | Remote (remote) | 2026-10-05 |
| Senior Account Manager (New Car) | Performance - New Car | Manchester | 2026-09-17 |
| New Business Consultant | Partnerships | Manchester | 2026-09-10 |
| Customer Success Manager (Digital Retailing) | Partnerships | Manchester | 2026-07-17 |
| Senior Data Scientist | Data Science & Analytics | Manchester | 2026-07-01 |
| Principal Mobile Apps Platform Engineer | Engineering | Manchester | 2026-05-22 |
| Data Analyst | Data Science & Analytics | Manchester | 2026-05-11 |
| Senior Data Analyst | Data Science & Analytics | Manchester | 2026-05-11 |
| Principal Full Stack Engineer - Full or Part Time | Engineering | Manchester | 2025-01-29 |
| Senior Full Stack Engineer - Full or Part Time | Engineering | Manchester | 2025-01-29 |
| Technical Lead - Full or Part time | Engineering | Manchester | 2023-02-01 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Full or Part Time | Engineering | Manchester | 2022-02-22 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Backend - Full or Part Time | Engineering | Manchester | 2022-02-22 |