Software Engineering Coach

Location: Remote, but within reach of Bristol, London or Glasgow

We’re making zero carbon happen

We’re OVO Group, a big family of companies united by a single vision: to get to zero carbon, fast. 

We call this Plan Zero – and it shows how we’ll be fighting the climate crisis and transforming the way people use energy over the next decade. To do this, we need the sharpest minds. Are you up for the challenge?

Do great green things with OVO Energy

So much has changed since we launched in 2009.  Our goal remains the same though: make energy cheaper, greener, and simpler. Just as it was on day one.

Everyone belongs at OVO

Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of brilliant people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences. 

We encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are – we can’t wait to meet you.

Where in the world of OVO will I be working?

You will be joining the Developer Experience area of our OVO Tech Engineering organisation, which includes considering how we best find, onboard, enable and develop software engineering skills,  and how we build progressive and inclusive culture and career paths at OVO Tech. This is an exciting new role with the potential to have huge, far-reaching and enduring impact.

Infrastructure, Reliability and Developer Experience combines various enabling teams to focus on cross-cutting initiatives at OVO Tech that not only make engineering faster, but more joyful. Better software means less waste and ultimately that we can better support OVO and our members on the journey towards zero-carbon living.

You’ll be initially reporting to our Tech Director across Developer Experience as we develop the org structure further.

What will I be doing?

• Partnering with wider teams to lead initiatives that develop software engineering skills in OVO.
• Driving our apprenticeship programme ‘OVO Tech Academy’, ensuring it’s effective design and impact on participants.
• Supporting the design and delivery of programmes that both guide and level-up our engineering competencies, in turn empowering teams and engineering managers to own their development programmes  to achieve our technology strategy.
• Engaging with our recruitment processes, onboarding and our evolving career progression framework. We want to build the world’s leading engineering culture to solve the hardest problem facing humanity.

Is this the job for me?

We are looking for personable, proactive, high EQ leaders with excellent agile engineering experience.  

It would be excellent if:

• You have enough technical experience to be able to contribute to and guide technical discussions and coach/facilitate a group in seeing the wider context and/or proposing agile engineering practices as a route through challenges.
• You are passionate about exploring continuous improvement of products, tools and processes.
• You’re passionate about nurturing and cultivating engineering culture and talent.
• You believe in the principles of open communication and modern development/agile practices
• You have experience with software engineering hands-on and are willing to work in areas of testing practices, quality and automation of these into CI and CD pipelines
• You appreciate the challenges of learning new technical concepts, especially with a lens of neurodiversity
• You use your influence and stakeholder management skills to have wide-reaching impact

Brilliant benefits for a world-changing team

Our people are at the heart of Plan Zero. That’s why we offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to make you feel at home.

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

Then 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 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.

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!