Octopus Energy is hiring a
Python Developer

Summary

Join Octopus Energy Trading team as a key member to develop and implement solutions for trading and dispatching flexible assets, with the opportunity to shape the culture and codebase.

Requirements

• A keen interest in energy systems and the energy transition
• Circa 1-3 years of experience in a similar position
• Production python experience
• Experience developing data pipelines in python

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable & reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, reliability and quality of the Octopus Energy Trading platform
• Contribute to development across the entire stack from the front end down to the infrastructure that the platform runs on
• Contribute to the software engineering culture here at Octopus Energy Trading
• Take energy industry data and turn it into tradeable insights helping us ensure everything from electric vehicles to grid scale batteries are charged at the greenest times for the best price

Preferred Qualifications

• Using 3rd party APIs
• Websockets / queues
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc)
• AWS or similar cloud providers
• SQL
• Javascript
• Web development (especially FastAPI)
• Developing visualisations (especially Plotly)
• Forecasting and/or machine learning

Benefits

We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about!