Senior Backend Engineer – Low Carbon Tech

🕒 June 12

🏢🏡 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

• Take total technical ownership of key platform components, shaping direction and bringing clarity to ambiguous problems while ensuring solutions are well-designed, scalable, and maintainable. • Consistently write production-ready, self-documenting code that requires minimal revision, and actively improve testing strategies, non-functional requirements (performance, security, scale), and test infrastructure. • Tackle systemic bottlenecks and architectural risks across multi-service configurations before they hit production, utilising highly systematic debugging approaches. • Mentor other engineers, lead technical discussions, and perform rigorous code reviews to leave our systems, practices, and people stronger than you found them. Your influence will go far beyond your own delivery to help make Octopus an incredible place to be an engineer.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience of robust backend development with deep expertise in systems design, database optimisation (PostgreSQL/MySQL), and cloud execution.**** • Excited by the possibilities of integrating AI tools into your workflow to iterate quickly, combined with the discipline to rigorously check and ensure code quality.**** • Clear communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical constraints and architectural risks cleanly to non-technical stakeholders (compliance, operations, business development).**** • A genuine curiosity about the green technology landscape. You won't be expected to dive into physical engineering or device-level software, so you don't need to be a hardware expert, we’re just looking for someone who shares our passion for getting clean energy into millions of homes.

🏖️ 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