Software Engineer, Octopus Energy Group

Kraken Technologies US

$85-180k

+ Equity options

React
AWS
Redux
React Native
Python
Django
Airflow
Terraform
NumPy
RabbitMQ
Pandas
Celery
Mid and Senior level
New York

2+ days a week in office

Octopus Energy Group

Entech company

Open for applications

Octopus Energy Group

Entech company

1001+ employees

B2CRetailB2BEnterpriseEnergySustainabilityCustomer serviceElectric VehiclesSaaSSocial Impact

Open for applications

$85-180k

+ Equity options

React
AWS
Redux
React Native
Python
Django
Airflow
Terraform
NumPy
RabbitMQ
Pandas
Celery
Mid and Senior level
New York

2+ days a week in office

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

  • A minimum of 3 years of professional python software development experience is required
  • General interest in technology and problem-solving; Diligent and thoughtful
  • Good communication skills
  • Python
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • Domain modelling
  • HTTP and REST APIs
  • Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
  • Celery and async processing
  • Postgres
  • Legally able to work within the USA

Desirable

  • AWS
  • Terraform, Packer, Consul
  • React and Redux
  • Professional understanding of the US energy domain

What the job involves

  • We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The US energy market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there's a lot of domain modelling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential
  • We have difficult technical problems to solve. 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
  • Often, we can only give you the question and not the answer, because if we knew the answer, we wouldn’t be hiring - are you someone who not only finds answers but creates value by coming back and asking better questions?
  • There's a great opportunity for disruption in the US energy market. The big suppliers still dominate, but are not popular. The energy landscape is changing as we move to more dis-aggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology. Octopus Energy were the first UK supplier to introduce a "tracker" tariff whose prices track the daily wholesale prices: http://www.cleanenergynews.co.uk/news/efficiency/octopus-offers-transparency-with-wholesale-price-tariff
  • You'll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change. Our parent company is the largest investor in solar generation in the UK, and are funding wind and anaerobic digestion. As a supplier, we're helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK 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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Insights

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46% female employees

44% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

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!
  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options including FSAs
  • 401(k) plan with employer match
  • Parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Modern office or co-working spaces depending on location

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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