Senior Software Engineer 🇯🇵 (Backend - Python/Django)
April 18
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Description
• We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The Japanese energy market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there's an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right.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, we'll 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. • There's a great opportunity for disruption in the Japanese energy market. 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: http://www.cleanenergynews.co.uk/news/efficiency/octopus-offers-transparency-with-wholesale-price-tariff • You'll be working for a company that’s 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, we're helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK towards a lower carbon future
Requirements
• Python • Django (or equiv. web framework) • Domain modelling • HTTP and REST APIs • Writing robust and fault-tolerant software • Celery and async processing • Postgres Plus experience in the following would be a bonus: • AWS • Terraform, Packer, Consul • React and Redux • Ability to speak Japanese would be a plus
Benefits
• Our company culture - we won best company to work for in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people • 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 • Relaxation - we don’t 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? We’ll 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
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