Backend Software Engineer, OVO
£64-80.8k
+ You’ll be 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
£64-80.8k
+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%.
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Solid backend experience using Node along with Terraform
- Experience with AWS or GCP
- Experience with test-driven development
- Enterprise Integration experience
- A solid grasp of software engineering best practices
- Experience with event driven micro services and Lambda based architecture
- Experience working in an Agile team (Kanban and/or Scrum)
- Advocate and implementer of continuous integration and continuous delivery
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Software Engineer Manager
- We’re looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to support our team as we design and roll out web based tools and internal REST API’s and event driven processes supporting existing OVO agents whilst being part of a game changing program which will re-imagine our customer and business approach to leveraging export energy
- You’ll be working both within a focussed team whilst helping to shape tech strategies for software, engineering and data at the Industry Operations collective level, currently encompassing 4 engineering lead teams
- Deliver high-quality, reusable code that serves as a valuable reference for the team
- Your solutions to complex problems are efficient, elegant, and well-structured. You prioritise simplicity, performance, style, and correctness in your code, while also considering appropriate data structures and error handling techniques
- Your ability to evaluate alternatives and make informed decisions within constraints is impressive
- Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering their growth and skills development. This includes presenting technical topics, conducting regular one-on-one sessions with engineers one level below you, and collaborating on personalised development plans with senior engineering managers
- Your dedication to guiding and nurturing junior colleagues is highly valued
- Within your first 3 months month you’ll:
- Have owned and delivered an initiative and measured the results
- Have a deep understanding of the domain and problems being addressed by the team
- Actively contributed to the technical and product roadmaps for the team
- Owner and creative artefacts to support and increase knowledge within the team
- Systems: Node (Server-side), AWS, BigQuery, Grafana, CircleCI
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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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
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
$252.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$252.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $544.6m
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
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)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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