Senior Software Engineer – Energy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Play a crucial role in establishing team objectives, ensuring that proposed tasks align with our goals and guiding prioritization to effectively achieve them.

• Design and execute intricate technical solutions that align with our strategic vision, influencing policies and standards throughout the broader engineering team.

• Assume responsibility for technical decisions within your squad, showcasing proficiency across various technologies.

• Oversee significant technical features from conception to completion, making informed trade-offs between advancement and perfection.

• Offer technical guidance to your team, proactively addressing debt and minimizing complexity in our services and procedures.

• Cultivate a comprehensive understanding of our multi-service business model, leading conversations on how your team's efforts contribute to the overall company strategy.

• Instill our culture in others and mentor engineers through pairing and code reviews, encouraging collaboration where every voice is valued.

• Lead intricate projects and explore new territories, effectively managing pressure to propel the team forward.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience with Go is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Demonstrated expertise with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

• Extensive experience in building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures.

• A solid grasp of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation.

• Capability to deliver comprehensive solutions, from design through development, deployment, and ongoing support.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows.

• Knowledge of Kafka and database migrations (e.g., CockroachDB to RDS) is a plus.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to excel in an agile, iterative setting while continuously delivering feature enhancements.

• Experience in mentoring mid-level engineers and exemplifying engineering best practices.

• Comfort in working within autonomous, product-focused teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against industry standards and will openly discuss salary during our initial conversation.

• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.

• Flexible working: We operate as a remote-first company.

• Work-life balance: We provide the option of a four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).

• Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice per tax year.

• Holiday: 25 days in addition to bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.

• UW discounts: Enjoy savings on our services and receive a free Cashback Card.

• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).

• Family first: Policies designed to support you and your family’s well-being.

• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.

• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.

• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget along with bi-annual promotion cycles.

• Inclusion: Participate in belonging groups that help shape our culture.

• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards.’