Senior Software Engineer - Financials, Cost & Charging

What we do: build the most AI-driven, innovative, forward-thinking platform for energy management. From optimizing resources to delivering cost-effective, exceptional customer experiences through advanced Customer Information Systems (CIS), billing, meter data management, CRM, and AI-driven communications, Kraken is powering the next wave of innovation in the energy industry.

Why we do it: future energy will not look like energy as we know it today. We need to not just think about our future, but build for it. Now.

What you'll do

• Develop an innovative and highly technical product, central to Kraken's billing system used by a multitude of countries, markets, and clients
• Abstract specific problems into generic building blocks that clients can use to build and modify their systems
• You will be working in a multi-disciplinary software engineering team; solving design challenges; domain modeling; solving technical problems; engineering solutions for smart meters; writing robust fault-tolerant software primarily in Python, Celery, and async processing
• We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The energy market is complicated, outdated, and process-heavy - there\'s an awful lot of domain modeling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential
• We have difficult technical problems to solve. With the advent of smart meters, we\'ll soon be processing millions of meter readings a day
• There\'s a great opportunity for disruption in the energy market. The big suppliers still dominate but are not exactly popular. The energy landscape is changing as we move to more disaggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism, and smarter technology. Octopus Energy was the first UK supplier to introduce a \"tracker\" tariff whose prices track the daily wholesale prices: http://www.cleanenergynews.co.uk/news/efficiency/octopus-offerstransparency-with-wholesale-price-tariff
• You'll be working for a company that\u2019s fighting climate change. Our parent company 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 world towards a lower carbon future

What you'll have

• Ability to think abstractly to solve general problems, not directly tied with an immediate user need
• Skills in identifying performance bottlenecks and optimising code
• Experience with developing development frameworks or language design
• Experience in designing scalable and maintainable systems. Understanding of design patterns and best practices
• Celery and async processing
• PostgresREST and GraphQL APIs
• Plus experience in the following would be a bonus: AWSTerraform, Packer, Consul

Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Australia. In the UK we are one of the Best Workplaces on Glassdoor with a score of 4.7. Check out our Welcome to the Jungle site (FR/EN) to learn more about our teams and culture.

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Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Utilities and Environmental Services