Software Engineer (Backend)

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Team: Industry Operations, Exports

Salary banding: £64,000 to £80,800

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern: Full Time

Reporting to: Software Engineer Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Autonomy, Ownership, Responsibility

Top 3 qualities for this role: Proactive, End-To-End Owner, Technically Strong

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Team Working for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

Exports sits within the wider Industry Operations tech squad along with areas such as teams supporting settlements and machine learning solutions. You'll be working on systems that facilitate OVO’s key aims to encourage customers to install and export energy from renewable sources with OVO by building and supporting robust, customer focussed solutions for onboarding and guiding customers in their renewable journeys with OVO.

This role in a nutshell:

We’re looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to support our team as we design and roll out web based tools and internal REST API’s and event driven processes supporting existing OVO agents whilst being part of a game changing program which will re-imagine our customer and business approach to leveraging export energy.

You’ll be working both within a focussed team whilst helping to shape tech strategies for software, engineering and data  at the Industry Operations collective level, currently encompassing 4 engineering lead teams.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Deliver high-quality, reusable code that serves as a valuable reference for the team.
• Your solutions to complex problems are efficient, elegant, and well-structured. You prioritise simplicity, performance, style, and correctness in your code, while also considering appropriate data structures and error handling techniques.
• Your ability to evaluate alternatives and make informed decisions within constraints is impressive.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering their growth and skills development. This includes presenting technical topics, conducting regular one-on-one sessions with engineers one level below you, and collaborating on personalised development plans with senior engineering managers.
• Your dedication to guiding and nurturing junior colleagues is highly valued.

Within your first 3  months month you’ll:

• Have owned and delivered an initiative and measured the results
• Have a deep understanding of the domain and problems being addressed by the team
• Actively contributed to the technical and product roadmaps for the team
• Owner and creative artefacts to support and increase knowledge within the team

Systems: Node (Server-side), AWS, BigQuery, Grafana, CircleCI

You’ll be a successful Software Engineer at OVO if you…

• Solid backend experience using Node along with Terraform.
• Experience with AWS or GCP
• Experience with test-driven development
• Enterprise Integration experience
• A solid grasp of software engineering best practices
• Experience with event driven micro services and Lambda based architecture
• Experience working in an Agile team (Kanban and/or Scrum)
• Advocate and implementer of continuous integration and continuous delivery

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £60,000 and £80,800, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..