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Senior Backend Developer Python (m/w/d)

Join Octopus Energy Group as a Senior Backend Developer in Brussels, focusing on innovative solutions for the energy market.

Octopus Energy
Octopus Energy
Brussels, Belgium   Remote   Full Time  UTC+01:00   1001-5000   More than 3 months ago

About Octopus Energy

Company Overview

Octopus Energy Ltd

London, England

2015

Business Model

Renewable Energy

Energy supply, renewable energy generation, technology development

Sales of electricity and gas, technology services, electric vehicle solutions

Locations & Geography

UK 🇬🇧, Germany 🇩🇪, USA 🇺🇸, Japan 🇯🇵, Spain 🇪🇸, Italy 🇮🇹, France 🇫🇷, New Zealand 🇳🇿

Company Culture

Making energy cleaner, simpler, and fairer through technology and innovation.

Inclusive, supportive, focused on customer satisfaction and technological innovation.

Opportunities for career growth, learning, and involvement in transformative projects.

Activities & Projects

Global expansion, renewable energy investments, technology development for energy management.

Development of the Kraken technology platform for energy management.

Investments in renewable energy assets, offering green energy plans to customers.

Career Opportunities

Various roles in energy management, customer support, and technology development.

Comprehensive benefits package, flexible working options, commitment to employee wellness.

Contact Information

LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook

Careers at Octopus Energy

Job Description

Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!

Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.

We’re a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.

It’s a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.

Our mission is to provide cheaper, greener energy to the European marke**t.

We offer a better experience to our customers through transparency, honesty and simplicity. We want to do better for the planet, through real, long-term investment in renewable energy production and a low-CO2 future that's better for our customers' wallets. We want to revolutionize the energy business through our people, our platform and our use of data.

Our focus is on customer satisfaction, and receiving positive reviews is important to us - we have the best score among French energy suppliers on Google Reviews and Trust Pilot.

Kraken Technologies is a company within Octopus Energy Group who are licensing the Kraken platform and operating model to clients across the world. Current clients are both the Octopus Energy retails businesses around the world as well as external clients such as Good Energy, Origin, EDF,E.ON & Queensland Energy - with many more expected to join over the next few years!

Our team

All technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 450 people globally. This includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers.

We follow a Kanban-like approach, using Google docs and Asana to specify and manage work; Github, CircleCI and Terraform Enterprise as part of an immutable-infrastructure, continuous delivery pipeline; and Loggly, Sentry and Cloudwatch to measure performance and monitor production.

Some of our coding conventions are open-source.

Octopus is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills.

Our technology

On the server-side, we mainly use Python. Most of our websites are powered by Django, Django-REST-framework and GraphQL (Graphene).

We use AWS heavily, employing most of the "Hashistack" (eg Packer, Consul, Terraform) as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. See, for example, Django, ELB health checks and continuous delivery.

Client-side, we use React, Redux and SASS; our mobile apps are built using native code or React Native.

What you'll do

We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The european energy market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there's an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential.

We have difficult technical problems to solve. With the advent of smart meters, we'll soon be processing millions of meter readings a day. We need the right technology in place to handle this smoothly as well as feeding data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption.

You'll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change.

As a supplier, we're helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the French market towards a lower carbon future.

What you'll have

We're looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful.

It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order):

  • Python (minimum 7 y.e.)
  • Django (or equiv. web framework)
  • Domain modelling
  • HTTP and REST APIs
  • Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
  • Celery and async processing
  • Postgres
  • Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:
  • AWS
  • Terraform, Packer, Consul
  • React and Redux
  • Fluency in Dutch or Flemish, and at least a B2 level in English

🌎 This is a full remote position. We are therefore looking for senior developers. We need people working remotely to have a very good level of autonomy and strong technical abilities. If you are not senior, we may have space for you but it will not be in a remote position.

🇧🇪 / 🇳🇱 For this position specifically, we are looking for a developer fluent in dutch/flemish. If you don't speak dutch or flemish, this position won't be the right fit for you, but we may open other roles soon with different language criteria.

What you'll love about us

  • Wondering what the salary is for this position? Ask us! During our initial contact, this is something we always bring up, because we really want to match your experience with the right salary. The reason we don't talk about it here is that we 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 has a unique culture: we won the award for Best Company to Work For in 2022, on Glassdoor UK we were voted one of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2022 and our CEO, Greg, recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our employees. In 2023, we were named one of the 100 best companies to work for in the Sunday Times.In France, we were awarded the Happy at Work label, and ranked eighteenth out of a total of 1,675 structures in the category of companies where employees find the most meaning.

We are an organization where people learn, decide and build faster. Where they work autonomously, with extraordinary people, on innovative projects. Profit-sharing, flex-office, excellent mutual insurance, soft mobility package, coverage of part of the "pass navigo" above the legal minimum, and even special days off to invest in an associative project that's close to your heart... we want your investment to be rewarded by benefits you really care about!

At Octopus, we're looking for people who are genuinely caring and empathetic. Equal opportunities are important to us, and we're committed to providing an inclusive and fair working environment. We invite you to apply, whatever your age, gender, marital status, color, disability, pregnancy or parenthood, origin, religious beliefs or sexual orientation.

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.

About the role

August 12, 2024

Full Time

Company

Octopus Energy

February 11, 2025

Remote

  •  Brussels, Belgium

Minimum 7 years in Python and related technologies.

UTC+01:00

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