Senior Backend Developer

About Octopus Electroverse

We’re making electric vehicle ownership as smart and as simple as possible, by building the giant, virtual charging platform of the future.

In just three years, Octopus Electroverse has grown to become one of the largest eMobility players globally, with over 800,000 connected electric vehicle chargers and a customer ecosystem spanning web, iOS, Android, CarPlay, Android Auto & Automotive OS, and more.

But it’s just the start: we’re busy expanding internationally, working with more automotive and tech partners, building exciting new features at scale, and creating the integrated charging experiences of the future - all in the name of making public EV charging super simple for customers.

Electroverse is a multifunctional team made up of product, development, commercial, operations, marketing, partnerships and more - all focused together on making Octopus the go-to name in EV charging. And we’re looking for smart individuals with an interest in the space who can help us make it happen.

We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about code, curious, and eager to learn. You’ll be working alongside the backend team that provides services for our Electroverse ecosystem in the electric vehicle and electrification space. This is an early stage project which will give you the chance to have a huge impact and given our ambitions in the electrification space, influence how the back-end scales to meet new challenges and create a wider ecosystem. Overall, you'll work with a small, high-energy project team to bring the product to life - an exciting opportunity to work like a start-up within a rapidly scaling EnTech business.

What you'll do

• Help us develop our new exciting offering for businesses using our API proposition to accelerate them in their electrification journey
• Support development in other areas within our Electroverse ecosystem
• Work in a cross functional team to deliver best quality product for our clients

What you'll need

• The passion to create something amazing, and the mindset to learn and grow with the company.
• A strong understanding of the Python ecosystem with 3+ years of experience.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs is a must, preferably within the Python / Django ecosystems
• Experience with maintaining versioned APIs
• Experience maintaining asynchronous processing systems (AMQP, Celery)
• Experience with monitoring and debugging applications and infrastructure
• Experience with maintaining high quality documentation for an externally facing product
• Experience working on processing large volumes of data
• An ability to discuss vision and features within a team and propose creative solutions
• Ability to assist and help external clients with their implementation
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment
• An ability to write robust and fault-tolerant software
• Proficient understanding of Git

Why else you'll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recordeda podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
• Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits