Python Engineer

Benvenuti nel futuro dell’energia!

La missione di Octopus Energy è rendere l’energia rinnovabile accessibile a tutti.

Grazie alla tecnologia, stiamo guidando la rivoluzione energetica a livello globale, offrendo energia pulita a prezzi convenienti e un servizio clienti sbalorditivo.

Se non ami uscire dalla tua comfort-zone non inviarci la tua candidatura ;)

In Octopus Energy non amiamo la burocrazia, le regole troppo stringenti e le offerte commerciali poco chiare.

Vogliamo rivoluzionare il mercato energetico italiano. Per farlo, siamo alla ricerca di persone motivate, che condividano i nostri stessi valori.

Se hai a cuore il futuro del nostro pianeta e vuoi aiutarci a migliorare il settore energetico, unisciti al nostra team!

Octopus Energy Italia is targeting 1 million Italian energy accounts by 2025 (5% of the market). The rapid expansion will be driven by an initial investment of €60 million from Octopus Energy, coming soon after the $600 million injection from Al Gore-backed Generation Investment Management that Octopus Energy Group received in October 2021 and the $300 million investment made by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) made in December 2021. These two investments value the company approximately US$5 billion, rivalling that of many long-established energy giants.

Our teamAll technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 100 people. 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 technologyOn 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 UK 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.
• There's a great opportunity for disruption in the Italian energy market. The big suppliers still dominate, but are not exactly popular. The energy landscape is changing as we move to more dis-aggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology.
• 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 Italy towards a lower carbon future.

It would be helpful to have experience in the following...

• Python
• 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
• High level language skills in English and Italian

About you...

• We're looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful.
• Passionate about working in energy and contributing to the energy transition
• High level language skills in English and Italian
• Curious and self driven
• Learns fast and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies
• Previous experience in the energy industry is not a requirement (we can teach you that) but if you do have it, it could be considered a plus. In this case, we would like to know if you had any previous experience with the following platforms:
• SII - Sistema informativo integrato
• Energy and/or gas distributor’s portals

What you'll love about us....

• 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!
• Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together
• Relaxation - we don’t count your holidays here, we work hard, and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course)
• Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
• Office culture - have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner
• Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you