Company: Vertu Motors plc
Location: North East
Posted: April 17th, 2026
Permanent Full Time | Hybrid | Gateshead | £30,000–£50,000 depending on experience
We’re hiring Software Engineers to join our team at Vertu Motors Plc. — a business that buys and sells cars, parts, and time across 190+ dealerships nationwide, supported by technology built and maintained by a tight-knit team of engineers.
The problems we solve are real and close to the surface: how do customers find the right vehicle, how do our 7,500+ colleagues get the information they need at the right moment, and how does a business running at £4bn annual revenue stay operationally sharp? We build the systems that answer those questions — across customer-facing platforms, colleague-enabling tools, and business efficiency software.
Your first 30 days will be about understanding the codebase, the team’s rhythm, and the business context behind what we build — getting familiar with how we ship software and where you can start adding value alongside the rest of the team. By 90 days, you’ll be contributing to features and fixes across our product areas, pairing with teammates, and developing a clear picture of how the systems fit together. At six months, you’ll be actively contributing to various parts of the team’s code estate — picking up work across the stack, supporting each other’s delivery, and helping us ship with confidence.
This is a team role through and through. We pair, review each other’s code, and solve problems together. Psychological safety is non-negotiable — there are no silly questions, no heroics, no single points of failure.
Twenty years under the same leadership team has given us genuine stability and a clear direction. We recently completed a significant “One Vertu” transformation, consolidating Bristol Street Motors and Macklin Motors into a single unified platform — a major engineering undertaking that’s still delivering change. Our technology mission is simple to describe and hard to execute: understand complexity, deliver simplicity.