Senior Software Engineer, OVO
Tech Lead
£70-100k
+ An on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Job no longer available
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£70-100k
+ An on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
We launched in 2009 to make energy better. Over 4 million members, 5 million trees planted, and Plan Zero launched in 2019. We help UK homes reduce bills and carbon with smart tech and expert support. We believe energy can be better for customers, wallets, and the planet, uniting brilliant people to help decarbonise homes and simplify energy management.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrate technical leadership including guiding product architecture, solution design, technology selection, design pattern usage, and implementation activities
- Have a passion for coaching and mentoring other technical team members
- Are highly proficient in Typescript
- Have experience developing cloud-based solutions on GCP or AWS using Infrastructure as Code
- Have a proven track record of designing and building highly performant scalable applications
- Are comfortable working in an agile development environment with regular release cycles, and have experience of pair programming, BDD/TDD, CI/CD and deployment strategies
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Problem-solving, Creative, Attention to detail
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Head of Engineering/Engineering Manager
- This role in 3 words: Collaborative, Technical, Innovative
- Across OVO we have Software Engineers all with varying backgrounds and levels of experience
- One key thing that all of our engineers have in common is a desire to develop brilliant, industry redefining products as well as their own skills
- Working across a whole domain with other Engineers, a Product Manager, Product Designer and Head of Engineering/Engineering Manager, you’ll build systems using the latest cloud services, architectures and best practices providing performance, resilience and scalability
- You’ll contribute to your team's Ways of Working, and have time for your own personal development
- Acting as a subject matter expert within the team, providing technical advice, guiding solutions, and helping to establish good engineering practices
- Influencing the team’s technology selection and architectural direction
- Playing a key role in the technical decisions that help drive the direction of the strategy here at OVO
- Designing, building and maintaining cutting edge services and tools
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. It's analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, it's offering is organised into four different energy plans, that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Kate Cottrell, Smart Meter Engineer
Our mission
Supporting our customers on the journey to zero carbon by delivering exceptional customer service and promoting energy efficiency.Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$267.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$267.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $575.5m
Company benefits
- On-target bonus up to 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
- Flex Pay: 9% on top of your salary - 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash
- 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
- For your health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
- For your wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more
- For your lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations
- For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers
- For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- For your belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you
Company HQ
Bristol, UK
Leadership
David Buttress
(CEO)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Louise Bailey (Belonging Lead)
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to at least 30% Women in Tech at OVO by 2026
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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