Senior Software Engineer (BackEnd)

📋 Description

• Work within a dedicated cross-functional team on key products for our customers and internal teams.
• Design and build robust APIs, integrating our own and third-party services to optimise and automate
• Architect and evolve backend systems and data models that are performant, scalable, and built to
• Work across multiple data sources, designing expressive, well-structured schemas.
• Contribute to frontend applications when needed, helping shape experiences that work well for our
• Care about the code you write and its long-term maintainability.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in Python, with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proven experience designing and building APIs, ideally using GraphQL.
• Comfort working with multiple data sources, including relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Excellent understanding of core software engineering principles and best practices, and a track
• Proven experience collaborating within teams and across disciplines.
• Experience using AI tech and tooling to augment development

🎁 Benefits

• Don't feel like you meet all of our hiring criteria? thats OK, apply anyway! we'd love to hear from
• Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to
• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's
• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build