Backend Engineer for Pricing & Payments (EV Tech)

Octopus Energy Ltd; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Octopus Electroverse is seeking a backend software engineer to help shape pricing and discounting, improve financial reporting, and expand our charging subscription offerings. You will work with a small, high-energy team to deliver robust back-end features at scale, playing a key role in our fast-growing electrification platform.

We value curiosity, rapid learning, and collaboration, with opportunities to influence architecture as we scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years software experience, preferably with Django or similar Python frameworks.
• Experience maintaining asynchronous processing systems (AMQP, Celery).
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Proficient understanding of Git.

Responsibilities

• Help us improve core product by developing and improving pricing and discount mechanisms.
• Assist in improving accuracy of financial reporting and payment success rates across providers.
• Expand existing charging subscription offering to add flexibility and scalability.
• Collaborate within a small specialized team to enable cross-functional product areas and high-quality delivery.
• Support Operations in resolving payments-related issues and help Finance build accurate reporting systems.

Skills

Python

Django

Asynchronous processing

Security practices

Git

CI/CD

Payments knowledge

KYC/KYB

Tools

Celery

AMQP

Job description

Octopus Electroverse is seeking a backend software engineer to help shape pricing and discounting, improve financial reporting, and expand our charging subscription offerings. You will work with a small, high-energy team to deliver robust back-end features at scale, playing a key role in our fast-growing electrification platform.

We value curiosity, rapid learning, and collaboration, with opportunities to influence architecture as we scale.