Backend Developer, Octopus Energy Group

• We're looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful
• Python
• Django (or equiv. web framework)
• Domain modelling
• HTTP and REST APIs
• Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
• Celery and async processing
• Postgres

Desirable

• We’re now charging Kraken to power utilities beyond energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new product Kraken Utilities
• We have built this team from scratch over the last 2 years and now have 100 great people focussed on this product
• We're now looking to continue scaling this team and bring on talented software engineers to focus on helping us build and scale our telco product for new clients
• You will work on complex challenges in a fast paced and highly autonomous work environment, and be a key part of helping cement the long term culture of the team
• Together with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across energy retailers to other sectors
• Some of our coding conventions are open-source
• Kraken is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills
• On the server-side, we mainly use Python. Most of our websites are powered by Django, Django-REST-framework and GraphQL (Graphene)
• We use AWS heavily as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. See, for example, Django, ELB health checks and continuous delivery
• Client-side, we use React, htmx and SASS; our mobile apps are built using native code or React Native
• We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The UK utilities market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there's an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential
• Help build and scale the Kraken utilities team by embedding an engineering, problem solving, and customer-first culture
• Architect & develop new components of the Kraken platform to serve other utilities
• We have challenging technical problems to solve; like processing tens of millions of meter readings a day. We need the right technology in place to handle this smoothly as well as feeding data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption. Or thinking about how we adapt Kraken to improve other utilities like water and broadband
• There's a great opportunity for disruption in the UK water and broadband markets. The landscape is changing as we move to more dis-aggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology
• You'll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change. Our generation arm is the largest investor in solar generation in the UK, and is funding wind and anaerobic digestion. As a supplier, we're helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK towards a lower carbon future