Senior Software Engineer, Utility Warehouse
Energy
+ An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
Multiservice utilities provider
Be an early applicant
Multiservice utilities provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the nation’s most trusted utility supplier by simplifying home services, helping customers to stop wasting time and money.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll thrive here if you enjoy autonomy, solving distributed systems problems, and mentoring others as a player-coach
- To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
- Strong, hands-on production experience with Go
- Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes
- Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures
- A strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation
- The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support
- Experience working with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows
- Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- The ability to thrive in an agile, iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements
- Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
- Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams
- Worried you don’t hit every criterion? We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds — get your application in and let’s chat!
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer in the Energy team, you'll find yourself working on high-impact projects such as our ongoing Energy Transformation and Market Wide Half Hourly Settlement - projects which lay the foundation for the next phase of UW
- You'll be joining one of our Energy engineering teams - the driving force behind our Energy Transformation
- Working primarily with Go, Postgres, Kafka & Kubernetes, you'll contribute to the systems which underpin our Energy product offering
- You’ll own deployments end-to-end within our team’s Kubernetes namespaces and contribute to systems where resilience, reliability, observability and uptime really matter
- We’re looking for a senior backend-focused engineer to work across our core energy platforms
- Collaboration, pragmatism and low-ego teamwork are essential
- Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities (Based on our Engineering Career Progression Framework):
- Impact: You'll be integral in defining team goals, ensuring proposed work aligns with our objectives and driving prioritisation to best achieve them
- Technical Mastery: Design and implement complex technical solutions that align with our strategy, influencing guidelines and standards across the wider engineering group
- Take responsibility for technical decisions within your team, demonstrating expertise across multiple technologies
- Planning & Delivery: Own large technical features from design to completion, making well-informed trade-offs between progress and perfection
- Provide technical direction to your squad, proactively tackling debt and reducing complexity in our services and processes
- Business & Domain Knowledge: Develop a high-level understanding of our multi-service business model, leading discussions on how your squad’s work contributes to the broader company strategy
- Leadership & Culture: Teach our culture to others and mentor engineers via pairing and code reviews, fostering collaboration where all voices are heard
- Lead complex projects and discovery into unknowns, working well under pressure to drive the team forward
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Our take
Budgeting for a household is no easy task, especially when you've got to keep track of various bills from different providers. That's why Utility Warehouse provides customers with all their home services – including energy, broadband, mobile and insurance – in one simple, monthly bill.
The company says that this all-in-one approach ‘makes budgeting so much easier’ for customers, which is backed up by a strong customer services record. Though it does not advertise heavily, its partners are given incentives to sign up new customers, which has contributed to its impressive growth thus far.
Boasting over 1 million customers across the services they sell, Utility Warehouse is one of the largest energy providers outside the 'Big 6'. Its unique approach, and established footing in the market, should ensure it continues to compete with other challengers as the utilities sector further evolves.
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Opportunities to learn
"My manager is always looking to create more opportunities for me to have my voice heard and be stretched into areas I've not necessarily worked in..."
Company benefits
- An industry benchmarked salary. We’ll share it during your first conversation
- Annual discretionary performance based, annual bonus scheme
- Hybrid working, with 2 days in the office. (We’re definitely open to discussing flexible working arrangements)
- Holiday trading- buy & sell up to 5 days holiday each year
- Discount on our services and you get our coveted Cashback Card for free. You’ll also get access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox
- A matched contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x your salary. You can also access free mortgage advice and a financial wellbeing tool
- Save as You Earn scheme
- Family-friendly policies, designed to help you and your family thrive
- Flexible benefit choices such as Private health insurance, a free Virtual GP, Gym discounts and wellbeing apps
- Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker
- Belonging groups that help UW shape an even more inclusive future
- A commitment to helping you develop your career journey through learning, coaching and new experiences
Company values
- We’re people helping people: Because it keeps us real
- We’re open, empathetic, and foster belonging
- We get it done together: Because it helps us get things done
- We keep things simple, take ownership, and win together
- We’re all about results: Because we're ambitious
- We’re impact-focused, daring, and spirited
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Stuart Burnett
(CEO)Stuart began his career as a corporate lawyer before working in several notable insurance firms. He joined UW in 2016 and has held several leadership roles, becoming CEO in 2021.
People progressing
Kerry
Joined as an Electricity Operations Analyst. Promoted 6 times and is now Head of Energy Operations.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Utility Warehouse
Stuart Burnett (Co-CEO)
- We’re a unique bunch of people here at UW – and that’s just how we like it. We embrace different perspectives, experiences, and personalities, creating an inclusive environment where people feel they can belong
- We write job description requirements as minimally as possible to encourage candidates who may exclude themselves to apply, and the Recruitment team work with our hiring managers to minimise bias in the hiring process
- We have a number of active Employee-led Inclusion groups - Menopause Support Pride, Women in Leadership Carers Support
- We openly publish our D&I results internally and externally as well as our targets for improvement.
- We put on unconscious bias workshops and training for all team members
- We provide mental health support and other wellness initiatives to support all our team members
- We are a member of the Women in Utilities network and actively support opportunities for mentoring through the group
- We provide inclusive leadership learning to all people leaders at UW
- We have committed to the Race at Work Charter
- We have an active, zero-tolerance, Harassment and Bullying policy
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