Senior Backend Developer, Octopus Energy Group

Python, Dutch/Flemish Speaker, CDI, Kraken Technologies France

Salary not provided
React
AWS
Redux
Python
Django
GraphQL
Postgres
Terraform
Celery
REST API
Senior and Expert level
Remote in France
Paris
Octopus Energy Group

Entech company

Open for applications

Octopus Energy Group

Entech company

1001+ employees

B2CRetailB2BEnterpriseEnergySustainabilityCustomer serviceElectric VehiclesSaaSSocial Impact

Open for applications

Salary not provided
React
AWS
Redux
Python
Django
GraphQL
Postgres
Terraform
Celery
REST API
Senior and Expert level
Remote in France
Paris

1001+ employees

B2CRetailB2BEnterpriseEnergySustainabilityCustomer serviceElectric VehiclesSaaSSocial Impact

Company mission

Octopus Energy's mission is to speed the transition to a sustainable, low carbon future through renewable energy and technology whilst putting customers at the heart of everything they do.

Role

Who you are

  • We're looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful
  • It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order):
  • Python (minimum 7 y.e.)
  • Django (or equiv. web framework)
  • Domain modelling
  • HTTP and REST APIs
  • Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
  • Celery and async processing
  • Postgres
  • This is a full remote position. We are therefore looking for senior developers. We need people working remotely to have a very good level of autonomy and strong technical abilities. If you are not senior, we may have space for you but it will not be in a remote position

Desirable

  • AWS
  • Terraform, Packer, Consul
  • React and Redux
  • Fluency in Dutch or Flemish, and at least a B2 level in English

What the job involves

  • Kraken Technologies is a company within Octopus Energy Group who are licensing the Kraken platform and operating model to clients across the world
  • All technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 450 people globally
  • This includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers
  • We follow a Kanban-like approach, using Google docs and Asana to specify and manage work; Github, CircleCI and Terraform Enterprise as part of an immutable-infrastructure, continuous delivery pipeline; and Loggly, Sentry and Cloudwatch to measure performance and monitor production
  • Some of our coding conventions are open-source
  • Octopus 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 have lots of difficult design challenges to solve
  • The european energy 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
  • With the advent of smart meters, we'll soon be processing 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
  • You'll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change
  • As a supplier, we're helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the French market towards a lower carbon future

Our take

According to Octopus, the energy industry in the UK is ruled by a handful of complacent companies peddling fossil fuels, pricing trickery, and poor customer service. Aiming to disrupt the status quo with sustainable energy, Octopus entered the market in 2016 and they now supply energy to millions of homes in a number of countries. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles largely because of its “Kraken” technology platform, which it claims is able to reroute energy from renewable sources around a network far more efficiently than competitors.

Octopus Energy further differentiates itself through its aspiration to make everything as easy as possible for consumers, from the simplicity of their bills and the fact that customers are not locked into a contract so they can leave at any time to offering customer service over email and social media at times that suit customers. They aim to make the eco‐friendly choice the easy choice, so all of their tariffs use 100% green electricity, while not being more expensive than their competitors' non-green tariffs.

They are continually creating innovative new products. For example, Octopus Tracker where prices changes daily to guarantee you get the market rate; Agile where the price changes every half hour to enable you to benefit from cheap electricity when the sun shines, the wind blows, and the networks are under-utilised. One of the current challenges they face is that their products are more complex than their competitors, given they use 1000x more data than traditional energy companies. They're exploring ways to explain to customers exactly how their products work.

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Challenging work

"The work that I am doing is often quite difficult. I am constantly challenged and problem solving, which I find rewarding as it means I am always..."

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Dec 2023

$800m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Jul 2022

$225m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $2.5bn

Company benefits

  • Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
  • Flexi working environment
  • Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Equity Option Scheme - Everyone owns part of what we’re building with shares
  • Tech - We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
  • Money Coach - You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach. They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
  • Wellbeing - Need some calm in your life? We have 'Octopus Headspace Licences' available. Twice a week we have 45 Minute live yoga class open to all Octopus staff!

Company values

  • Autonomy
  • Empathy
  • Innovation
  • Impact

Company HQ

Fitzrovia, London, UK

Leadership

Previously Adviser at Ashcombe Advisers for 9 years and Non-Executive Director at Zopa for 7 years.

Previously CEO at Claripoint for 7 years and CTO at Tangent Labs also for 7 years.

Previously Director of "Foundation" Business Unit at Barclaycard for 2 years and Chief of Staff, Secured Lending SBU at Barclays also for 2 years.


People progressing

Joined as Marketing Assistant, being promoted to Marketing Executive after 6 months and again to Junior Product and Marketing Manager after 7 months. After 8 months they became a full Product and Marketing Manager.

Joined as Senior Talent Partner, being promoted to Talent Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Talent Acquisition after 8 months.

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