Backend Developer
About Octopus Electroverse
We’re making electric vehicle public charging simple, by building the giant, virtual charging platform of the future. In just five years, Octopus Electroverse has become Europe’s largest eMobility charging network, with over 1.4 million connected electric vehicle chargers globally across 79 countries. Our customer ecosystem spans web, iOS, Android, CarPlay, Android Auto & Automotive OS. But this is just the start: we’re busy expanding internationally, growing our Charge Point Operator and OEM partners, and scaling our Octopus Fleet B2B proposition - all in the name of making public EV charging super simple for our customers. Electroverse is a cross-functional team of product, engineering, commercial, operations and marketing, all sharing a passion for shifting the industry towards EVs.
About the Job
You’ll join as a backend engineer in one of our primary squads. Working alongside the product manager and engineers in your squad, you will help develop the critical services that serve our end users. You’ll have the chance to work on highly impactful projects, fueling product innovation in a fast-moving industry and influencing how the backend can deliver robust and scalable functionality.
What you'll do
- Enable us to build quickly but robustly, using best practices in observability, data analysis and defensive programming, allowing us to safely scale our products and CPO integrations globally.
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to break down complex problems, understand feasibility, and propose creative technical solutions that deliver a market-leading platform.
What we're looking for
- The passion to create something amazing in the climate space, and the mindset to learn and grow in a rapidly scaling business.
- 2+ years commercial experience with Python.
- Good communication skills, with an ability to consider product vision and propose creative technical solutions within a team.
- An ability to write robust and fault-tolerant software.
- Proficient understanding of Git and CI/CD.
- Good understanding of Databases and data architecture.
- Experience with API development (REST, GraphQL, etc)
Nice to have
- Experience in using web frameworks (Django).
- Experience working on B2B product features
- Experience working with OCPI
- Experience integrating third-party API solutions
Why else you'll love it here
Skills
As published by lever · 3 questions · 2 written answers
Basics
Resume/CV, Full name, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, GitHub URL, Portfolio URL, Other website, What gender do you identify as?, What ethnicity do you identify as?Please select the ethnicity you identify most with, Do you identify as neurodiverse?
Pick from a list (1)
- We’re proud to be a registered visa sponsor at Octopus Energy. We consider sponsorship on a case by case basis and while we're sorry we are not able to offer it for every role, understanding your right to work status helps us explore what options might be open for you. Could you please tell us what’s your current right to work status?
Written answers (2)
- Before your skills and experience, we’re looking for the right kind of person – the kind who is utterly passionate about our mission and who thrives working how we work. So, please let us know why the Octopus Electroverse stands out to you?
- What are your salary expectations? We're more than happy to share our salaries for roles 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 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!