Overview

Kraken Utilities is part of Kraken, a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. We are expanding the Kraken platform to serve additional utility sectors (Water and Broadband) and building a new Kraken Utilities team to re-architect, design, and develop our software platform to solve complex industry-wide problems (such as customer experience and water leak detection). The Kraken Utilities team is in a growth phase and has already signed several clients. We are 120+ people in Kraken Utilities and 1800+ people in the overall Kraken world. We are excited about growing our team to shape the future of the business at a global scale.

What you’ll do and what you’ll need are described below.

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 The UK utilities market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy – there’s a lot of domain modelling that needs to be right.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 and develop new components of the Kraken platform to serve other utilities.
• Address challenging technical problems, such as processing tens of millions of meter readings a day, ensuring the right technology is in place to handle this and feed data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption. Consider adapting Kraken to improve other utilities like water and broadband.
• Participate in a market with opportunities for disruption in UK water and broadband, moving toward more dis-aggregated generation, less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology.
• Join a company that is actively addressing climate change. Our generation arm invests in solar, wind and anaerobic digestion; we help customers use greener technology and renewable energy to move the UK toward a lower-carbon future.

What you’ll need

• A general interest in technology and problem-solving; a diligent and thoughtful mindset. Experience with the following:
• Python
• Django (or equivalent web framework)
• Domain modelling
• HTTP and REST APIs
• Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
• Celery and async processing
• PostgreSQL

Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:

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

Location and working model

We prefer someone who can work in our London office on a hybrid remote policy of 1-2 days a week onsite. You do need to be able to work in the UK.

About Kraken and Kraken Utilities

Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Australia. In the UK we are recognized as one of the best workplaces on Glassdoor with a high rating. Our platforms power energy management and customer experiences across multiple utilities sectors.

Equal opportunity and privacy

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