Data Engineer

🕒 March 30

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Octopus Energy

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

⚡ Energy

📡 Telecommunications

Energy • Telecommunications

Octopus Energy is a UK-based energy supplier that offers innovative smart tariffs and renewable energy solutions. Known for its award-winning customer service and commitment to a greener future, Octopus Energy provides great value for the long term with prices historically cheaper than any other large supplier. As one of Europe's leading investors in renewable energy generation, the company is highly trusted, holding a five-star customer service rating. Octopus Energy offers a variety of tariffs tailored for smart meters, solar energy, and electric vehicles, emphasizing cost savings and environmental benefits. Octopus Energy has also expanded internationally with operations in several countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA.

📋 Description

• Build and optimise the platform used by the data team to transform raw data into business insights • Build new data sources and data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business (this will include integration with third party systems and ingestion through APIs) • Scope and deliver new data engineering projects in collaboration with business stakeholders • Develop and deploy ML infrastructure to help build out our ever-growing AI requirements and use cases • Collaborate closely with our dev teams to build seamless integrations between between our back-end databases and our data platform • Shape the direction of our growing team and coach team members on best practices

🎯 Requirements

• You don’t need experience with electric vehicles/leasing (we can teach you that!), but having worked in similar Start-Up/Scale Up environments might be a bonus. • First and foremost, a passion for decarbonisation • A passion for writing high quality code and building lean processes • Experience with distributed data processing • Experience with monitoring, testing, and data quality • Ability to work with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end • Experience building robust pipelines from diverse sources e.g. SQL & no-SQL databases, API endpoints • It would be helpful to have experience/expertise/knowledge in the following: • Airflow • AWS • Kubernetes • Spark & distributed computing • dbt • Terraform • Databricks (desirable but not required) • MLOps implementation (desirable but not required) • Distributed system optimisation techniques • Governance

🏖️ 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! 🎁 Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits**** • 🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024. We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022. 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 • 🐶 *Just to let you know, we are dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices - feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies* • *🤖 We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively. We’re totally fine with you using AI as a tool to help prepare too. That said, when we get to the interview and assessment stage, we’re really interested in hearing your unique perspective and real-world stories. That’s the stuff we can’t get from a bot or a prompt!*