Senior Software Engineer – Partner

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Utility Warehouse

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1996

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

⚡ Energy

Consulting • Logistics • Energy

Utility Warehouse is a UK-based company offering bundled services including energy, broadband, and mobile to maximize customer savings. They provide incentives such as up to 10% cashback on spending and offer coverage for termination fees up to £400 when switching from other providers. Utility Warehouse promotes a streamlined billing system with a single bill for multiple services, intending to offer competitive prices compared to major suppliers. The company emphasizes excellent customer service and has received multiple industry awards. Customers can choose from various services and enjoy significant savings through their cashback scheme.

📋 Description

• Define team goals, align proposed work with objectives, and drive prioritisation • Design and implement complex technical solutions aligned with company strategy • Influence engineering guidelines and standards across the wider engineering group • Take responsibility for technical decisions within the team across multiple technologies • Own large technical features from design through completion • Make informed trade-offs between progress and perfection • Provide technical direction to the squad • Proactively tackle technical debt and reduce complexity in services and processes • Develop high-level understanding of UW’s multi-service business model • Lead discussions on how squad work contributes to company strategy • Mentor engineers through pairing and code reviews • Lead complex projects and discovery into unknowns • Build platforms and services supporting UW’s Partner proposition • Develop scalable, reliable systems using Go, Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes • Own deployments end-to-end within the team’s Kubernetes namespaces • Improve lead routing, partner onboarding, and Partner business-management experiences • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers in autonomous teams

🎯 Requirements

• Senior backend-focused software engineering experience • Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes • Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures • Strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation • Ability to deliver end-to-end solutions from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support • Experience with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows • Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations, such as CockroachDB to RDS, is a plus • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills • Ability to thrive in an agile, iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements • Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices • Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams • Hands-on experience with AI development tools • Experience with Go is preferred but not essential • Successful candidates are subject to a background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary performance bonus ranging from 15-40% • Remote-first flexible working • Optional four-day working week at 90% pay for 90% impact • Work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure • Option to trade up to five holiday days each year • Discounts on UW services and a free Cashback Card • Matched-contribution pension scheme • Life assurance up to 4x salary • Family-friendly policies • Flexible benefits allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership • Eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service • Dedicated learning and development budget • Bi-annual promotion cycles • Belonging groups • Company-wide celebrations and events