Senior Software Engineer – Pricing

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

📋 Description

• Design and deliver key components of the Pricing API, from initial design to production.

• Integrate pricing logic into a single service while maintaining consistent pricing behavior.

• Develop detection and alerting systems to identify poor or slow prices before they impact customers.

• Equip the commercial team with self-service explanations for contracts that cannot be priced.

• Enhance the speed of customer quoting significantly.

• Create backend components that price actual energy contracts for businesses and renewable energy generators.

• Implement error handling, observability, and alerting to ensure reliable and explainable pricing.

• Extract and unify pricing logic to ensure the pricing engine manages its behavior comprehensively.

• Address live pricing inquiries and incidents, using insights to drive structural improvements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in production backend development with Python; must have deployed and managed an API in a production environment and taken responsibility for any issues that arose.

• Proficient in FastAPI and SQL.

• Background in data- and analytics-intensive systems where numerical accuracy is crucial.

• Strong product engineering judgment.

• Regular use of AI coding assistants like Claude for writing, testing, and reviewing code.

• Capability to manage a project from start to finish, including scoping, delivery, and quality assurance.

• Preferred: Knowledge of fintech, energy pricing, neo-utilities, or ad-tech sectors.

• Preferred: Experience collaborating with or within machine learning teams.

• Preferred: Familiarity with AWS and serverless architectures, including Lambda, event-driven services, and Postgres on RDS.

• Preferred: Experience with Polars or optimizing numerical code.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options to ensure everyone has a stake in our mission.

• 25 days of vacation plus public holidays.

• Option to exchange public holidays for preferred days off.

• Birthday leave.

• Remote-first approach with flexible working arrangements.

• Clearly defined core working hours.

• No internal meetings scheduled on Friday afternoons.

• Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,400 per year for remote work setup expenses.

• Up to GBP150 or EUR170 per month allocated for wellbeing initiatives.