Senior Software Engineer Energy
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Job Summary
We deliver progress. What youll do and how you will make an impact.
Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities (Based on our Engineering Career Progression Framework):
- Impact: Be integral in defining team goals ensuring proposed work aligns with our objectives and driving prioritisation to best achieve them.
- Technical Mastery: Design and implement complex technical solutions that align with our strategy influencing guidelines and standards across the wider engineering group. Take responsibility for technical decisions within your team demonstrating expertise across multiple technologies.
- Planning & Delivery: Own large technical features from design to completion making well-informed trade-offs between progress and perfection. Provide technical direction to your squad proactively tackling debt and reducing complexity in our services and processes.
- Business & Domain Knowledge: Develop a high-level understanding of our multi-service business model leading discussions on how your squads work contributes to the broader company strategy
- Leadership & Culture: Teach our culture to others and mentor engineers via pairing and code reviews fostering collaboration where all voices are heard. Lead complex projects and discovery into unknowns working well under pressure to drive the team forward.
Possible Next Career Steps
- Staff Software Engineer
- Engineering Manager
Qualifications :
Required Skills and Experience
To be successful in this role youll need:
- Strong hands-on production experience with Go
- Proven fluency with Postgres Kafka and Kubernetes
- Solid experience building distributed systems including concurrency and event-driven architectures
- A strong understanding of system resilience observability uptime SLAs and progressive degradation
- The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions from design through build deployment and ongoing support
- Experience working with CI/CD tooling Terraform and modern cloud workflows
- Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
- Strong communication collaboration and problem-solving skills
- The ability to thrive in an agile iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements
- Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
- Comfort working in autonomous product-focused teams
Additional Information :
So why pick UW
Weve got big ambitions so theres going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:
- An industry-benchmarked salary. Well share it during your first conversation.
- Share Options and Save as You Earn scheme.
- Flexible working remote-first with access to hot desks across the UK and a central London hub.
- Work-from-anywhere policy for up to 2 weeks per year.
- Discounts on our services and a free Cashback Card.
- Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x salary.
- Family-friendly policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
- Discounted private health insurance Employee Assistance line and free Virtual GP.
- Belonging groups helping shape an inclusive future.
- A commitment to learning and progression through our Career Development Framework with regular review and promotion cycles.
Apply here!
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Martyna Zbyszewska will be your point of contact throughout the recruitment process.
Not sure you meet all the requirements Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do.
We provide equal opportunities a diverse and inclusive work environment and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age disability gender marriage or civil partnership status pregnancy and maternity status race religion or belief or sexual orientation. Please dont be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.
Please note if you are successful and offered a role at UW you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
From a pub in Henley back in 96, to an award-winning business with over a million customers weve come a long way. For over 20 years weve been putting money back into peoples pockets through our unique utilities bundles. We take pride in delivering simple yet powerful services t ... View more
