European automotive wholesale marketplace connecting buyers and sellers
CarOnSale operates a digital marketplace for used-car trading across Europe, built on a PHP and Node.js stack paired with Salesforce for CRM. The hiring mix is operations-heavy (33 ops roles) with meaningful sales (27) and marketing (14) headcount, reflecting a logistics-first model: active projects center on dealer onboarding, vehicle assessment automation, and inbound partner acquisition rather than pure platform engineering. Pain points cluster around process efficiency, CAC optimization, and scaling auction mechanics—signals of a marketplace grappling with unit economics and operational velocity.
Notable leadership hires: Vehicle Evaluation Lead, Vehicle Assessment Lead
CarOnSale is a B2B marketplace platform connecting automotive wholesale buyers and sellers across Europe, headquartered in Berlin. The company operates a two-sided network: dealers and logistics partners list vehicles; buyers browse, bid, and transact. Founded in 2018 and now public, CarOnSale employs 201–500 staff across operations, sales, marketing, and engineering. The platform runs on PHP, Node.js, and Angular for the frontend, backed by Salesforce, MySQL, and Redis; infrastructure sits on Docker and Ubuntu. Current focus areas include vehicle evaluation tooling, dealer onboarding workflows, SEO optimization, and expansion of transport partner channels.
PHP, Node.js, TypeScript, and Angular power the platform. Backend relies on MySQL and Redis; infrastructure uses Docker and Ubuntu with NGINX. Salesforce handles CRM; Jira and Confluence support team collaboration.
Active projects include dealer and transport-partner onboarding, vehicle assessment and inspection automation, SEO optimization, sales process management, data-driven quality control, and conversion-focused content localization.
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