Software Engineer, OVO

Zero Carbon Living

£55.8-74k

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.

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Postgres

Terraform

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

1+ day a week in office

Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone

Job no longer available

Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone

1001+ employees

B2CEnergySustainability

Job no longer available

£55.8-74k

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.

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Postgres

Terraform

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

1+ day a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CEnergySustainability

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.

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Company

Role

Who you are

Top 3 qualities for this role: Communication, Mastery, Collaboration
Have experience in a fast pace growth environment
Have strong Typescript knowledge for server-side development and a strong understanding of multi-server architectures, databases (especially PostgreSQL and Mongo) and DevOps (building CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/Kubernetes, AWS ECS etc)
Are passionate about product and user experience – customers are at the heart of everything you do! Strong commercial thinking is a plus!
Are comfortable making decisions that will shape the future of our products
You’ll have a strong desire to have impact and taking ownership early on
An eye for designing solutions that are resilient and scalable
Attention to detail and focus on security
Familiarity with Test Driven development is beneficial
Experience: Mid-level

What the job involves

Reporting to: Software Engineering Manager
This role in 3 words: Impactful, exciting, challenging
Working within one of our product work-stream aligned squads, you will support the development and maintenance across one of the product work-streams
This includes launching new features and products, optimising the system architecture for scale, solving the problems of the future
Building, testing, improving and monitoring the development of new features (and sometimes new journeys) for the products in your work-stream
Always taking into consideration the security, maintainability and observability when designing solutions
Working with a small team of Engineers, you will review code, resolve support issues, develop new functionality whilst enjoying pairing with team members and sharing knowledge
Accountability for timely and reliable delivery of your work and contributing towards your team’s work and performance. Provide direction and hands-on technical guidance to your team, making sure key processes are understood, documented, and followed
Shared ownership over system architecture, technical design and DevOps
Guaranteeing system availability and performance
Business alignment: Work with product and commercial team on developing team priorities based on the company’s business strategy
Providing technical mentoring: Ensure your team follows engineering best practices, participate in architectural discussions, and prioritise infrastructural work if necessary
…probably many more things we can’t even predict at this point
Within your first 3 months you’ll:
Utilised 10% time to build knowledge and continue to grow as an engineer
Be enjoying pairing with people within your team
Have got to grips with our tooling
Have got used to the ways of working within your team, collaborating with your team members to drive any efficiencies you and the team spot
Learnt about the ZCL Domain and attended some of our domain sessions
Have built up a good overall knowledge of the solutions that your teams own
Have become a key member of the team

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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Strong hiring activity

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

42% female employees

14% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (4.5)

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..."

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Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2023

$249m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Feb 2019

$249m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $536.5m

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

(Video) Net Zero Festival: OVO's Stephen Fitzpatrick on inspiring greener consumer behaviour change

Plan Zero

Diversity & Inclusion at OVO

Flexible Working at OVO

OVO's Path to Zero

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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