Senior Software Engineer - back office

Uswitch; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the energy sector is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their London office. This hybrid role involves building services to assist UK households in managing energy tariffs, collaborating with diverse teams, and making autonomous technical decisions within an established product team.

Benefits

Employer matching pension up to 7.5%

Work from Home budget

25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days)

Up to 30 days per year 'working from anywhere'

Health insurance

Free breakfast in the office daily

Qualifications

• Experience in agile teams.
• Good understanding of robust APIs.
• Experience with multiple programming languages is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain services for complex calculations.
• Develop tooling for visibility on consumer outcomes.
• Work autonomously on technical decisions.

Skills

Agile methodologies

API development

Collaboration

Data analysis

Job description

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Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our London office (Tower Bridge/London Bridge)

Every household in the UK uses energy. Meeting the needs of this diverse population requires close collaboration with some of the largest companies in the world to develop energy products. The market is evolving and as an increasing proportion of consumers choose electric vehicles and embrace green technology upgrades the marketplace is increasing in complexity. You will be key to helping UK households make informed decisions that lower their bills. You will build and maintain services performing thousands of complex calculations in real time to price hundreds of possible tariffs. You will provide data to help energy suppliers launch tariffs tailored to our customers. You will track financial performance and develop tooling to provide visibility on the outcome of every consumer who uses our products and services.

Department: Engineering

Location: London

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our London office (Tower Bridge/London Bridge)

Every household in the UK uses energy. Meeting the needs of this diverse population requires close collaboration with some of the largest companies in the world to develop energy products. The market is evolving and as an increasing proportion of consumers choose electric vehicles and embrace green technology upgrades the marketplace is increasing in complexity. You will be key to helping UK households make informed decisions that lower their bills. You will build and maintain services performing thousands of complex calculations in real time to price hundreds of possible tariffs. You will provide data to help energy suppliers launch tariffs tailored to our customers. You will track financial performance and develop tooling to provide visibility on the outcome of every consumer who uses our products and services.

As a team responsible for transforming data and performing calculations, we use functional languages to develop our APIs, predominantly Clojure. You will support in developing our architecture sustainably, introducing new tooling as ap

What You'll Be Doing

Engineering at Uswitch focuses on:

• Excellence: Work in an established & experienced product team branching into new feature development, supporting and improving the team’s delivery & technical expertise.
• Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organization to make the best ideas a reality.
• Autonomy: Authority over technical decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using methods that best align with your ways of working.
• Data Driven: Utilize rich real-time logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve product performance & reliability.
• Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and All Hands.
• Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.
  
  

As part of a product engineering team you will be accountable for the whole product, and work on

• Feature ideation, development and measurement
• Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
• Developing simplified domain models for the product
• Maintaining the full stack, from product to payouts
• Building efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Optimizing the UX & performance of the product across devices
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, and eager to collaborate with other disciplines, such as Designers, Analysts & Product Owners.
• Good understanding of building and maintaining robust, performant APIs
• Experience with multi languages is a plus - we believe in using the right tool for the job
• Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges.
• Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily.
  
  

Our Commitment to you

At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What We Offer

We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• Hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
• A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
• Electric vehicles scheme
• In office gym
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• Health insurance
• Access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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