Working with global Octopus Energy engineering teams to promote and enable the development of full-stack features using the Octopus Energy backend.
Migrating existing Octopus Energy-specific features from other repositories to the Octopus Energy backend.
Incubating and implementing features with the US team, then supporting further productionizing to make available globally.
Developing features with scalability in mind to ensure seamless adoption across all Octopus Energy regions. This involves gathering requirements from each region and defining a unified core solution that meets the needs of all eight regions.
Defining the technical requirements for dependencies on other teams and clearly communicating the priority of these requests to Client Delivery teams.
Maintaining the feature set to a very high degree of functionality and stability, regularly performing codebase optimization and tidying of tech debt.
Requirements
Real care for our customers and passion for delivering excellent customer experience
Excellent written communication skills, e.g. clearly laying out trade-offs where product decisions are required or sharing key updates with wider team visibility
Excellent day-to-day project management skills, identifying blockers and remedying to ensure a high pace of delivery is maintained
Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions
Ability to communicate effectively with engineers about system architecture
Ability to recognize what needs to be done, and, just as importantly, what doesn’t need to be done right now
The ability to spin many plates and context switch between competing demands on a regular basis
A drive to collaborate and reach common understanding
Comfort proactively reaching out to multiple teams, ability to maintain strong working relationships across continents / different timezones
Familiarity with backend and frontend engineering concepts
A bias toward the proactive with an ability to make decisions quickly
An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others
Benefits
Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options including FSAs.
Paid time off — we know working hard means also being able to recharge as needed, we trust our employees to get the work done and take the time they need.
401(k) plan with employer match.
Parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible. Pre-tax commuter benefits.
Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we are in the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together
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
Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you.
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