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
Open for applications
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£70-100k
+ An on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
We're on a mission to lower carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping our customers reduce theirs at the same time - we call this Plan Zero.
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. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their 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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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
$259m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$259m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $558.1m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, 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
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- 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 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- 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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