Senior Backend Engineer: Pricing & Payments Platform

Octopus Energy Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Octopus Energy Group is building a giant, virtual charging platform and expanding internationally. You’ll join the Electroverse backend team focused on core functionality, pricing and discounting, and robust, scalable services.

This role offers the chance to work in a small, high-energy project team within a rapidly scaling EnTech business, with salary discussions and opportunities to influence back-end scalability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years software experience, preferably with Django or similar Python frameworks.
• Experience with monitoring and debugging applications and infrastructure.
• Experience maintaining asynchronous processing systems (AMQP, Celery).
• An ability to discuss vision and features within a team and propose creative solutions.
• Knowledge of common security practices.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• An ability to write robust and fault-tolerant software.
• Proficient understanding of Git.

Responsibilities

• Help us improve the core product by developing and improving our pricing and discount mechanisms.
• Help improving the accuracy of our financial reporting and payment success rates across our existing and potential payment providers.
• Expand existing charging subscription offering to add flexibility and scalability.
• Work within a small specialized team to enable multiple cross functional product areas and delivery best quality for our customers.
• Support the Operations team in resolving payments related customer issues, and the Financial team in building accurate reporting systems.

Skills

Software experience

Tools

Django

Python

Git

Celery

AMQP

CI/CD

Job description

Octopus Energy Group is building a giant, virtual charging platform and expanding internationally. You’ll join the Electroverse backend team focused on core functionality, pricing and discounting, and robust, scalable services.

This role offers the chance to work in a small, high-energy project team within a rapidly scaling EnTech business, with salary discussions and opportunities to influence back-end scalability.