Software Engineer 

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The OVO Group’s purpose is to drive progress towards net zero carbon living. To reach Plan Zero, we need everyone to come together - not just as customers buying energy, but as members with a common goal. As part of this ambitious plan, our goal is to become the ‘Best Employer in the UK’ by 2030. If you think you could be the talent we’re looking for, then come and join the adventure!

Where in the world of OVO will I be working?

We're growing! We currently have vacancies in various teams, so if you have a preference for the front end, back end or both, we want to hear from you.

Across our Edinburgh brands we have around 50 Software Engineers all with varying backgrounds and levels of experience. One key thing that all of our engineers have in common is a desire to develop brilliant, industry disrupting products as well as their own skills.

We trust our development teams to choose their tech stacks, here you’ll commonly encounter Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, Kafka, C#, TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Cypress and React Native. We run our services in GCP, AWS and Azure.

Is this the job for me?

We're interested in hands on engineers with expertise in at least one programming language - if your experience doesn't match our stack exactly then don't worry, we hire based on software engineering talent, not language-specific skill set. Interested in us? We're interested in you!

We’re interested in engineers with deep experience in similar technologies and also polyglots who are comfortable working across the stack.

You’re the right person for us if

• You are genuinely passionate about developing products that will positively impact over a million people and also our environment
• You love working in teams and collaboratively building features that impact customers
• You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement
• You understand building quality is essential and you value automation and continuous delivery
• You love building scalable, resilient solutions
• You seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge
• You have built or contributed to a variety of systems, ideally in different technologies
• Knowledge of the best engineering practices and continuous delivery
• You have experience building highly performant applications

Ideally you will have:

• You’re a hands on engineer with expertise in at least one programming language 
• You have built or contributed to a variety of systems, ideally in different technologies
• Knowledge of the best engineering practices and continuous delivery
• You have experience building highly performant applications

Want to check out more?

Working in Tech at OVO Energy

Watch our video about joining OVO Tech Team

See how we work on our blog and our Tech Blog

OVO tech github: https://github.com/ovotech

From us you’ll get* 

• An annual discretionary bonus
• 4% of your salary to spend on flexible lifestyle benefits
• 5% matched employer contribution to your pension
• 34 days holiday + 1 for your birthday
• And many more... 

(*) Please note that certain benefits kick-in once you have passed probation which can be up to 6 months after your start date.

We want the best people 

At OVO, we empower our people to have choice around where and when they work - flexible working arrangements can be discussed for all of our roles. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team for more info.

We’re keen to meet people with varied backgrounds - our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure… we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more about working in the OVO family of companies on our careers page and Glassdoor. We’re also delighted to have received a Top Employers certificate in 2018, 2019 and 2020!