Staff Software Engineer, OVO
Mobile/Web
£95.8-138k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Posted today
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Posted today
£95.8-138k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company 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
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Systems thinking. Technical leadership. Delivery excellence
- Bring deep expertise in mobile/web engineering, including TypeScript/Javascript, React.js, React Native, Swift and/or Kotlin is a plus
- Have a track record of technical leadership, leading complex projects across squads—aligning stakeholders, unblocking teams, and shipping reliably
- Are passionate about performance, UX, and accessibility, and know how to measure and improve them in production
- Are an excellent communicator and mentor, raising the bar around you
- Thrive in innovation, exploring and applying emerging frontend technologies
- Are hands-on, actively contributing to design, code, and architecture while leading by example
What the job involves
- This role in 3 words: Pragmatic. Enabling. Hands-on
- As a Staff Mobile/Web Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader across one or more teams
- You’ll shape and deliver architecture within your domain, raise engineering standards, and mentor engineers to multiply impact
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams, contribute to our design system and shared libraries, and help the Community of Practice drive consistent, modern front-end practices across squads
- Your key outcomes will be:
- Own the end-to-end technical delivery for complex initiatives, balancing architecture, quality, and speed
- Contribute to and evolve our mobile/web architecture within your domain (design system adoption, shared libraries, cross-platform patterns)
- Set and uphold engineering standards for performance, accessibility, observability, security, and reliability across apps and web properties
- Influence API and BFF design to optimise client–server contracts and reduce complexity at the edges
- Reduce tech debt with clear, measurable plans; guide teams through refactors and incremental modernisation
- Mentor and grow engineers (pairing, design reviews, talks), building a strong pipeline of future staff engineers
- Contribute to hiring through calibrated interviews and fair, skills-based assessments
- Support incident response and own the operational excellence of your services
- Within your first 6 months month you’ll:
- Be recognised as a trusted leader and advisor across multiple teams and in the Mobile/Web Community of Practice
- Co-lead architectural reviews within your area/team, author ADRs, and drive adoption of agreed patterns; partner with Principals on org-wide standards
- Define and own performance & accessibility targets for your domain
- Act as the primary technical counterpart to Product, Design, and Backend for your team, planning work, aligning roadmaps, and unblocking cross-team dependencies
- Level up the craft through mentoring, design/code reviews and pair programming
- Play an active role in hiring top talent into the mobile/web engineering teams
- Drive discussions and contribute in the Mobile/Web Community of Practice, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing across the organisation
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
$269.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$269.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $579.9m
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
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 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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