Senior Software Engineer - Back Office Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London
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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.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 appropriate and helping us meet the evolving needs of the UK energy market.
What you'll be doingEngineering at Uswitch focuses on: Excellence: Work in an established & experienced product team branching into new feature development, supporting and improving the teams 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 RVUs 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 its 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 offerWe 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
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