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Kraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group.
Octopus are not your average energy supplier and we’re not your average mobile team. Work here is different; the global tech team is aligned on a single mission, to bring cheap green energy to the masses and provide outstanding service to customers who join us for the ride.
Life here is truly diverse, you’ll get the chance to work on BLE hardware integration and controls for our Octopus Heatpump, EV and home battery control through our Intelligent Octopus tariff, energy account management and work with non octopus clients, including other utilities like water and broadband.
To deliver such a wide range of features we split mobile engineering into four distinct sub teams; Devices, Intelligent Octopus, OE Mobile and Client, as a member of one of these teams you’ll work closely with your tech lead and product manager as well as backend engineers and designers. We like our engineers to be product focused so we don’t create bottlenecks between product teams and engineering, you’ll be able to work autonomously on your features without requiring sign off for every decision.
How do we work?
We’ve got an important, urgent mission to bring affordable, green energy to the world, and every person at Octopus works relentlessly to make that change happen fast. We work with freedom and responsibility. You'll get a lot of trust to run with ideas and take ownership of what you do.
Our founder Greg has a theory that building a great team should be like building a dry-stone wall: rather than forcing people into 'cuboids' and sticking them together in neat little rows, we take authentic humans, and find ways for them to fit together naturally to form a truly solid team full of unique perspectives and strengths. This way of working isn't for everyone. You have to drive your own work forward; be agile, flexible, and personally accountable for everything you do, from idea to conception. Through this though, you gain a true sense of ownership over the problems you’re solving, and the satisfaction of helping and supporting the millions of people who use what you make.
Our Technology
If you’ve got this far you’ll have noticed a theme of moving quickly, we double down on that notion in our technology choices.
At Octopus we use Kotlin Multiplatform to write a shared layer in Kotlin and build native Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI on top, this has a few benefits:
- Write everything up to the ViewModel once (including tests!), drastically reducing the time to ship new features
- Fix it once fix it everywhereFully native Kotlin and Swift means we get to hire fully native engineers
- Fully native UI means we don’t sacrifice UI and UX, and get access to the latest and greatest platform tools/frameworks as soon as they’ve available
We’ve had great success with this approach and successfully onboarded a mix of native Android and iOS engineers onto the project. You can learn more about how we use Kotlin Multiplatform in our team by watching this talk given recently at our London office.
What you'll have...
- Proficient with Kotlin and have experimented with other programming languages
- Are keen to dig into modern technologies like Jetpack Compose and GraphQL
- Can discuss vision and features within a team and propose creative solutions
- Are passionate about app architecture and can talk about the benefits and drawbacks of various patterns (MVC, MVVM, Redux)
- Knowledge of reactive libraries, offline storage, API integration, and testing
- Understanding of Material Design and interface guidelines
- Familiarity with source control best practices and continuous integration
- Are excited to explore cross platform code sharing solutions (whilst keeping the UI 100% native)
- Some knowledge of Swift and/or iOS development is a plus
- Passionate about great app design and user experience
Why else you'll love about us
- Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! 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 honestly 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!
- Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
- Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits
We would prefer someone who can work in our London office but will consider remote candidates. However, you do need to be able to work in the UK.
We're very excited to be growing our team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.
If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.
Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. 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.
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