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OVO Energy
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Bristol, Bristol
Software Engineer
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Job Description
Our tech: We trust our development teams to choose their tech stacks, you'll commonly encounter Scala, TypeScript, Clojure, Node, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React, Cypress, Swift and React Native. We run our services in GCP, AWS and Azure. We're looking for engineers with interest in the above, but your experience doesn't have to match our stack. We're interested in engineers with deep experience in similar technologies and also polyglots who are comfortable working across the stack. In our Bristol HQ we have around 50 Software Engineers all with varying levels of experience and specialisms. One key thing that all of our engineers have in common is a desire to develop brilliant, industry disrupting products as well as their own skills. About us: Our mission is to fuel human progress with clean, abundant energy for all. Today OVO is no longer simply an energy retail business: it is a group of innovative, dynamic companies, all striving to harness technological advances with great customer propositions. We are the leading innovator in energy technology, a sector that is currently experiencing a period of rapid change, always reimagining how energy should be controlled in the digital age. Not only are we contributing to changes in supplying retail consumers; we are also creating an intelligent control platform for the grid itself, creating support for more renewable energy using batteries and electric vehicles. We also built the first mobile payment solution for pay as you go customers, and are integrating smart home technology into energy supply. Our systems use the best technology has to offer, enabling the real time data streams behind our best in market customer products. We have a very strong engineering culture that's all about empowerment and ownership: all to solve one of the world's greatest problems. You're the right person for us if: * You are genuinely passionate about developing products that will positively impact over a million people and also our environment * You love working in teams and collaboratively building features that impact customers * You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement * You believe strongly in test driven development and continuous delivery * You love building scalable, resilient solutions * You seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge What experience you'll need: * You're a hands on engineer with expertise in at least one programming language * You have built or contributed to a variety of systems, ideally in different technologies * Knowledge of the best engineering practices and continuous delivery * You have experience building highly performant applications What we offer: * A very strong engineering culture (read more: * Flexible working hours * Competitive pay, bonus and benefits * A real commitment to your training and development * Free breakfast every day & discounted Friska, subsidised on-site gym, lots of social events. * Lots lots more! We celebrate diversity and value equal opportunity; the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and we decide employment on the basis of merit and potential.