Principal Backend Engineer, Java, AWS, Kafka
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Backend Engineer II
Octopus Energy
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSDjangoGraphQLKubernetesPostgresPython
About the role
- We are looking for 3 Backend Engineers to join our Devices team and Consumer Mobile team.
- Devices is a cross-functional team within OE Engineering, responsible for developing and maintaining Octopus Energy’s hardware products and features. A successful Backend Engineer in this team will enjoy collaborating with the wider team, and work with other disciplines to solve problems holistically in a way that works across multiple products.
- The Consumer Mobile team work on the global mobile app. We relaunched the Octopus Energy app with a small team of 4 engineers, product, and design in 2021. Since then we’ve grown to multiple cross-functional teams and over 20 developers across multiple disciplines.
- We’re expanding to meet the challenges of rolling out a single platform which supports diverse utility markets around the world. Every team member helps define culture and processes necessary to work collaboratively and effectively across multiple product teams, whilst instilling good engineering practices for the team as a whole.
- We embrace flat hierarchies and an open, agile culture that fosters innovation, flexibility, and creativity.
- This is an opportunity to focus on ambitious, high-impact work that's a fundamental part of driving the global shift to clean, smart energy.
- We don’t hang our personalities up with our coats and nor should you. At Octopus, we hire great people who get stuff done, all whilst being themselves.
- If this sounds exciting, we’d love to chat.
Requirements
- We're 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
- - GraphQL
- - Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
- - Celery and async processing
- - Postgres
- Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:
- - AWS
- - Kubernetes
Benefits
- 💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
- 🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership
- 🎁 Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonDjangoDomain modellingGraphQLFault-tolerant softwareCeleryAsync processingPostgresAWSKubernetes
Soft skills
Problem-solvingDiligentThoughtfulCollaborationInnovationFlexibilityCreativity
