Senior Backend Engineer

Octopus Energy Group • Houston (US), TX

2d • Remote

About The Position

Octopus Energy Engineering is responsible for the sites, services, and tariffs that are used by the millions of Octopus Energy customers worldwide. From building the latest, cutting-edge time-of-use tariffs, to helping customers actually enjoy tasks like providing meter readings through our wheel of fortune - and everything in between. You’ll find a wide variety of challenges in the work we do as we help push the energy revolution forward. Our teams are multi-disciplined and collaborate between countries, meaning you have what you need to get the right people together and build the next great thing. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer based in the US to join our global backend team at OE Engineering. We embrace flat hierarchies and an open, agile culture that fosters innovation, flexibility, and creativity. We don’t hang our personalities up with our coats and nor should you. At Octopus, we hire great people who get stuff done, all whilst being themselves.

Requirements

• General interest in technology and problem-solving.
• Diligent and thoughtful.
• Python Django (or equiv. web framework)
• Domain modeling
• GraphQL
• Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
• Celery and async processing
• Postgres

Nice To Haves

• AWS, or other cloud infrastructure experience
• React/Next.js with TypeScript

Responsibilities

• Building the latest, cutting-edge time-of-use tariffs.
• Helping customers enjoy tasks like providing meter readings.
• Pushing the energy revolution forward.

Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 20 days of paid vacation and 8 paid sick days annually.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Parental leave (Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible).
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Equity Options Scheme
• Support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed