Principal Software Engineer, OVO
Mobile/Web
£121-174k
Eligible for 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
Be an early applicant
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£121-174k
Eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
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
- Bring deep expertise in mobile/web engineering, including TypeScript/Javascript, React.js, React Native, Swift and/or Kotlin.
- Have a track record of technical leadership, influencing cross-team architecture and strategy
- Are passionate about performance, UX, and accessibility, setting high standards and holding teams accountable
- Are an excellent communicator and mentor, comfortable influencing stakeholders at every level
- 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
- Team: Engineering - Mobile & Web Platform
- Reporting to: Georgios Ampavis
- This role in 3 words: Visionary. Influential. Hands-on
- Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person
- You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life
- As a Principal Mobile/Web Engineer, you will be the technical authority driving OVO’s mobile and web strategy
- You’ll define long-term frontend vision, shape architecture and design systems, and ensure our apps deliver exceptional user experiences at scale
- You’ll mentor senior engineers, influence cross-company technology adoption, and represent OVO as a thought leader in the industry
- You’ll also play a key role in driving the Mobile/Web Community of Practice, shaping hiring strategies to attract top talent, and building a strong pipeline of future engineering leaders
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision for OVO’s mobile and web platforms
- Establish and evolve frontend/mobile architecture including design systems, shared libraries, and cross-platform strategies
- Mentor and guide senior engineers, fostering technical excellence and consistency across teams
- Influence API and BFF design to optimise client-server communication
- Ensure performance, accessibility, and scalability across mobile and web applications
- Represent OVO externally as a thought leader in mobile and web engineering
- Within your first 6 months month you’ll:
- Be recognised as a trusted advisor in mobile/web strategy across multiple teams
- Lead architectural reviews and set standards for frontend development
- Establish measurable performance and accessibility benchmarks for apps and web platforms
- Build strong relationships with product, design, and backend teams to ensure alignment
- Contribute to OVO’s engineering community through internal talks, workshops, and mentoring
- Play a key role in hiring top talent into the mobile/web engineering teams
- Lead 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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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
$273m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$273m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $588.2m
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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