Senior Software Engineer - Utilities (Python / Django)

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a candidate to help solve complex design challenges in the UK utilities market. This role involves architecting and developing new components of the platform while fostering a customer-first culture. Candidates should have strong Python and Django skills. The position offers a hybrid work model, requiring occasional onsite presence in Melbourne.

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail in domain modelling.
• Experience in building and scaling teams.
• Ability to work on complex technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Solve design challenges in the UK utilities market.
• Architect and develop components for the Kraken platform.
• Help create a customer-first culture in the utilities team.

Skills

Python

Django

Domain modelling

HTTP and REST APIs

Writing robust and fault-tolerant software

Celery and async processing

Postgres

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Packer

Consul

React

Redux

Job description

What you'll do:

• We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The UK utilities market is complicated, outdated and process‑heavy — there’s an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential.
• Help build and scale the Kraken utilities team by embedding an engineering, problem solving, and customer‑first culture.
• Architect & develop new components of the Kraken platform to serve other utilities.
• We have challenging technical problems to solve; like processing tens of millions of meter readings a day We need the right technology in place to handle this smoothly as well as feeding data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption. Or thinking about how we adapt Kraken to improve other utilities like water and broadband.
• There’s a great opportunity for disruption in the UK water and broadband markets. The landscape is changing as we move to more dis‑aggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology.
• You’ll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change. Our generation arm is the largest investor in solar generation in the UK, and is funding wind and anaerobic digestion. As a supplier, we’re helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK towards a lower carbon future.

What tech stack you'll have (in rough priority order)

• Python
• Django (or equivalent web framework)
• Domain modelling
• HTTP and REST APIs
• Writing robust and fault‑tolerant software
• Celery and async processing
• Postgres

Plus experience in the following would be a bonus

• AWS
• Terraform, Packer, Consul
• React and Redux

We would prefer someone who can work in our Melbourne office on a hybrid remote policy of 1‑2 days a week onsite. You need to have full working rights to work in Australia.

We’re very excited to be growing our team. We’re looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you’re reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.

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