Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 March 5

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend 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

• Provide real ownership and variety in shaping products that make a tangible difference in people’s lives - lowering bills, enabling greener living, and delivering experiences customers genuinely love. • Collaborate with teams across marketing, operations, and data, and see the impact of your work in the real world, fast. • Join the Flexibility team building the next generation of products and tools to make energy more flexible, including our flagship Intelligent Octopus product.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend web application development • Hands-on experience with Python/Django or equivalent web frameworks • Strong systems design abilities, including microservices architecture • Experience designing and operating RDBMS (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) • Experience with secure, reliable, large-scale/ high-transaction systems • Experience developing and operating systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • A self-sufficient person with a high level of initiative, able to work autonomously in a fast-changing environment • A strong team player who collaborates across teams and departments, mentoring and coaching more junior developers • Someone excited to solve social challenges through technology • Interest in environmental issues and the energy industry

🏖️ 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