Backend Developer - Kraken Technologies

More recently, we have acquired the green energy start up Umeme in order to bring the green energy revolution to the Spanish market. Read more .

Its in making this vision a reality that we are looking for you to help us achieve this.

Our team

All technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 500 people globally. This includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers.

We follow a Kanban-like approach, using Google docs and Asana to specify and manage work; Github, CircleCI and Terraform Enterprise as part of an immutable-infrastructure, continuous delivery pipeline; and Loggly, Sentry and Cloudwatch to measure performance and monitor production.

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Octopus is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills.

Our technology

On the server-side, we mainly use Python. Most of our websites are powered by Django, Django-REST-framework and GraphQL (Graphene).

We use AWS heavily, employing most of the "Hashistack" (eg Packer, Consul, Terraform) as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. See, for example, .

Client-side, we use React, Redux and SASS; our mobile apps are built using native code or React Native.

What youll do
We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The Spanish energy market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - theres an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right.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, well 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.
Theres a great opportunity for disruption in the Spanish energy market. The big suppliers still dominate, but are not exactly 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:
Youll be working for a company thats 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, were helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK towards a lower carbon future.
What youll have
Were looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful. It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order):
Python
Django (or equiv. web framework)
Domain modelling
HTTP and REST APIs
Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
Celery and async processing
Postgres
English & Spanish
Plus experience in the following would be a bonus: * AWS
Terraform, Packer, Consul
React and Redux
What youll love about us
Our company culture - we won
in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recorded and how we empower our people * Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we are
, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together * Relaxation - we dont count your holidays here, we work hard, and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course)
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
Office culture - have a certain tech requirement? Well do our best to get it. Our offices are also stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee and soft drinks. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner
Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
We would prefer someone who can work in our Spain (Valencia) office but will consider remote candidates (warning: the bar is much higher). You do need to be able to work in Spain/EU without a VISA though.

Above all, were looking for someone who thrives on providing alternative opinions, challenging those around them and being challenged.
Octopus Energy

Fecha de publicación: 01/12/2023