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Kraken is the technology platform behind Octopus Energy!
The platform is also offered to utilities in a SaaS model and is based on a modern, cloud-based architecture with continuous deployments that enables high-speed innovation.
We’re Charging Kraken to power utilities beyond energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new business Kraken Utilities. We are building this team from scratch and are looking for junior backend engineers with some Python experience to help us build and scale the team and work on some really exciting tech challenges.
The role
As one of the very first tech hires in this team you will have a huge opportunity to impact decision making and growing into more senior roles as the business scales.
Together with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across energy retailers to other sectors.
On the server-side, we mainly use Python. Most of our websites are powered by Django, Django-REST framework and GraphQL. We also use AWS heavily, employing most of the "Hashistack" (eg Packer, Consul, Terraform) as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. Client-side, we use React, Redux and SASS.
What you'll do...
- Help build and scale the Kraken Utilities tech team
- Embed a great engineering, problem solving and customer-first culture
- Architect & develop the new components of the Kraken platform to serve other utilities
- Lead the team to continuously develop the platform and to implement it at our clients
- Structure the vision for Kraken Utilities and the platform
- Work closely with the existing Kraken team to help build a consistent platform
What you'll need...
- Experience with key technology components underpinning Kraken’s stack ie python, django, django-REST-framework, AWS, kubernetes, terraform, react and graphQL, is requiredTechnical depth and breadth to drive the future development of the platform
- Structured problem solving skills to decompose and solve ambiguous problems
- Quick learner
- Happy to adapt and work on a variety of new challenges
What you'll love about us...
- 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 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
This role can be either fully office based in London, or a hybrid of a couple of days in the office each week and some working-from-home. Quickly getting to know the team face to face and the need to make quick decisions in our fast-paced environment means that we can’t offer a fully remote role. The London office is based on Oxford Street.
We're very excited to be growing our team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.
If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.
