Senior Python Engineer: Scalable Backend & AI Tools

Octopus Energy Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Octopus Employee Benefits

Job summary

Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of Octopus Energy Group, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Python) to join our product and engineering team. You will design robust APIs, evolve backend data models, and work across data sources while occasionally contributing to frontend tasks to improve user experiences.

You’ll write maintainable code, mentor teammates, and help raise the bar for our engineering practices in a fast-paced EV leasing environment.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Python with strong software engineering fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust APIs by integrating our own and third‑party services to optimise core business processes.
• Architect and evolve backend systems and data models that are performant, scalable, and built to last.
• Work across multiple data sources, designing expressive, well‑structured schemas.
• Contribute to frontend applications when needed, helping shape experiences that work well for our users.
• Care about the code you write and its long‑term maintainability.
• Contribute ideas, share knowledge, support, mentor, and raise the game of those around you.

Skills

Python

APIs

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

AWS

Frontend collaboration

Team ownership

AI tooling

Code quality

Tools

React

Next.js

Job description

Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of Octopus Energy Group, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Python) to join our product and engineering team. You will design robust APIs, evolve backend data models, and work across data sources while occasionally contributing to frontend tasks to improve user experiences.

You’ll write maintainable code, mentor teammates, and help raise the bar for our engineering practices in a fast-paced EV leasing environment.