Senior Backend Engineer - Pricing & Payments Platform

Octopus Energy Germany GmbH; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee benefits

Job summary

Octopus Electroverse in London is seeking an experienced software engineer to help build the core functionality of our pricing, billing and discounting platform within the electric vehicle ecosystem. You will join a small, high-energy team, work across core product areas, and contribute to scalable back-end services while learning and growing in a fast-moving EnTech business.

The role is open to different levels; if you tick the boxes, we’ll consider you for the right level and reward your

Qualifications

• The passion to create something amazing, and the mindset to learn and grow with the company.
• 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).
• 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.
• Experience with subscriptions and recurring payments is a plus.

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

Python

Django

Monitoring & debugging

Asynchronous processing (AMQP, Celery)

Git

Security best practices

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Tools

AMQP

Celery

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Octopus Electroverse in London is seeking an experienced software engineer to help build the core functionality of our pricing, billing and discounting platform within the electric vehicle ecosystem. You will join a small, high-energy team, work across core product areas, and contribute to scalable back-end services while learning and growing in a fast-moving EnTech business.

The role is open to different levels; if you tick the boxes, we’ll consider you for the right level and reward your