ELLA - The Automotive AI Company
Founding Software Engineer
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At ELLA Digital
At ELLA Digital, we're transforming the automotive industry through AI-powered software. We build intelligent SaaS solutions that help dealerships unlock the value of their data, streamline operations, and deliver better customer experiences.
We're looking for a curious, hands-on Engineer with experience in the automotive technology ecosystem who enjoys solving real-world integration challenges and building software that makes a genuine impact. Whether you're an ambitious junior ready to accelerate your career or a mid-level engineer looking for greater ownership, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role
As an Engineer at ELLA Digital, you'll play a key role in connecting our platform with dealership management systems, manufacturer platforms, and third-party automotive software. You'll work across customer integrations, product development, and technical problem solving, helping us deliver exceptional experiences while shaping the future of our platform.
This is a varied role where no two weeks are quite the same. You'll collaborate closely with customers, partners, and our product team to build scalable solutions for an evolving industry.
On a Typical Week You Might
- Manage new customer integrations from onboarding through to go-live.
- Investigate and resolve data, API, and integration issues.
- Work directly with dealerships and third-party software providers to troubleshoot and improve integrations.
- Analyse customer and platform data using SQL (or develop your SQL skills with our support).
- Design, build, and maintain software that improves connectivity across the automotive ecosystem.
- Help refine and scale our onboarding and implementation processes as we continue to grow.
- Collaborate with the wider team to influence how our products and services evolve.
- Prototype and implement innovative solutions to problems we haven't encountered yet.
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What We're Looking For
Essential
- Experience developing software in a SaaS environment.
- Familiarity with the modern data stack - orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect), transformation (dbt), warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks) or similar.
- Solid SQL skills and comfort working with relational databases and data models.
- Experience building or maintaining data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, or integrations that move data between systems.
- Experience working with APIs and system integrations, including messy or poorly documented ones.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, and the persistence to chase a data discrepancy to its root cause.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A proactive mindset and willingness to take ownership of your work.
- Eagerness to learn new technologies and continuously improve.
Nice to Have
- Experience working within the automotive industry or automotive technology sector (dealership systems, DMS, CRM, OEM platforms, automotive SaaS, or related technologies).
- Experience with streaming or event-driven data (Kafka, PubSub, Kinesis, queues, CDC).
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or Google Cloud) and their data services and data catalogues.
- Experience with data modelling, warehousing patterns or analytics engineering.
- Exposure to AI/ML: preparing data for models, working with LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, or supporting models in production.
- An interest in how AI products actually get built, even if you haven't shipped one yet.
- Experience working in agile development teams.
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What Success Looks Like
You'll become a trusted technical partner for our customers, helping them get the most from the ELLA platform while building reliable, scalable software that powers our integrations. You'll contribute ideas, improve processes, and have the opportunity to shape both our product and our engineering practices as the company grows.
Why Join ELLA Digital?
We're a growing AI SaaS business focused exclusively on the automotive industry. Our team moves quickly, values initiative, and encourages everyone to contribute ideas that shape our products and our future.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Work on meaningful problems that directly impact automotive retailers.
- Build software that integrates with some of the industry's leading platforms.
- Learn from experienced engineers while taking ownership of real projects.
- Help shape a fast-growing AI company from an early stage.
- Develop your technical skills across software engineering, integrations, cloud technologies, and data.
If you're excited by solving integration challenges, building innovative software, and helping modernise the automotive industry through AI, we'd love to hear from you.
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