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About the Role
At Octopus Tech, you’ll have real ownership, variety, and the chance to shape products that make a tangible difference in people’s lives - lowering bills, enabling greener living, and delivering experiences customers genuinely love. You’ll work side by side with teams across marketing, operations, and data, and see the impact of your work in the real world, fast. We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Global Backend Team. The Global Backend Team are the powerhouse behind our mission to build the future of energy tech, working on our new and rapidly growing backend retail codebase used by all Octopus Energy engineering teams around the world. We embrace flat hierarchies and an open, agile culture that fosters innovation, flexibility, and creativity. We don’t hang our personalities up with our coats and nor should you. At Octopus, we hire great people who get stuff done, all whilst being themselves.
Requirements
- General interest in technology and problem-solving
- Diligent and thoughtful
- Experience/expertise in Python
- Experience/expertise in Django (or equiv. web framework)
- Experience/expertise in Domain modelling
- Experience/expertise in GraphQL
- Experience/expertise in Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
- Experience/expertise in Celery and async processing
- Experience/expertise in Postgres
- Plus experience in AWS would be a bonus
- Plus experience in Kubernetes would be a bonus
Skills
- Python
- Django
- Domain modelling
- GraphQL
- Celery
- Postgres
- AWS
- Kubernetes
Location
- London
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- Salary is discussed during the recruitment process
Benefits
- Perks you actually care about
- Named the UK's top company to work for in 2025
- Ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2026
- Support for accommodations during the interview process
About the Company
- Making energy fair, clean, and simple for all using technology.
- Britain’s first truly digital energy supplier.
- Britain’s largest energy supplier in 2025.
- A global energy transition collective with 10 businesses working across 4 continents.
- Constantly pushing to make energy better.
- Tirelessly campaigning for fair protections for customers.
- Building innovative technologies that forge a path to a green energy system.
- Comprised of 10,000+ authentic, committed people working around the world.
- United by a shared goal: to drive the global green energy revolution.
- A unique culture where people learn, decide, and build quicker.
- An organisation where people work with autonomy.
- A place where people work alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute.
- Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.
- Encourages applications from all candidates, even if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements.
- Looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic.