AddressDescription
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Salary: Circa £65,000
Location: Canary Wharf
WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week
Flexible working: Informal flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion including a 9-day fortnight.
Visa sponsorships: LCCC does not sponsor visas currently so you will need to hold a valid UK passport or a valid visa to work in the UK.
Reports to: Delivery Lead
Role Summary:
We are looking for amazing Python and Django Developers to come and join our growing team. You will be joining a team helping to support the UK Net Zero objective creating software to help us support Low Carbon energy generation.
Role Summary:
We are looking for amazing Python and Django Developers to come and join our growing team. You will be joining a team helping to support the UK Net Zero objective creating software to help us support Low Carbon energy generation.
You will have a variety of projects to work on including our Digital Platform for collaborating with Generators, Settlement Systems and Data Reporting services across nuclear, hydrogen and electricity generation.
You need to have excellent knowledge of building applications with Python
As a Python Backend Developer, you will be joining a growing team of software engineers, data modelers, and quants. As a team you will design, develop, and maintain LCCC’s digital platform that comprises of multiple applications including settlements tools, forecasting, digital platforms, calculation engines, data portals, and other applications that the business requires to help the UK achieve Net Zero by 2050. You will be working on multiple different project teams covering generation areas such as nuclear, hydrogen, solar, and tidal power.
Key Responsibilities
The key accountabilities of your role are outlined below, covering both the Low Carbon Contracts Company and Electricity Settlement Company.
- This role is very hands-on with coding so you will need to be comfortable getting stuck in.
- Design highly scalable software solutions to improve functionality and system longevity.
- Work with technical business analysts and solution architects to fine tune requirements and ensure that wants are feasible and pragmatic and validate development tasks in Jira.
- Develop modules that satisfy the functional and non-functional requirements.
- Coordinate deployments with Release Manager and monitor for successful integration.
- Manage design, build, test bug fix prerogatives.
- Prepare, review and update technical documentation.
- Build reusable components.
- Participate in the maintenance and improvement of existing applications.
- Optimise microservices for maximum performance.
- Contribute to the wider engineering team.
- Stay abreast of developments in application development, analytics, programming languages.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- At least 3 years’ experience of coding Python with Django framework
- At least 3 years’ experience with microservices and using related tools – e.g. Docker, AWS, Kafka, Lambda.
- RESTful API development and management, Transactional management.
- Databases – e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQL.
- Experience with data science libraries is highly desirable.
- Performance Tuning.
- Solid understanding of design patterns and relevant implementation models.
- Solid understanding of DevOps tooling, GitLab, CI/CD, build pipelines and source control systems.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services: compute, storage, networking, hybrid connectivity, monitoring/logging, security and IAM.
- Knowledge of other languages (e.g. C#, C) a plus.
- Ideally previous experience in electricity and gas utilities sector.
Employee Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:
- 25 days' annual leave and bank holidays
- Recognition schemes allowing colleagues to say thanks
- Company contribution to your pension scheme
- Family friendly policies, including enhanced company maternity/paternity and shared parental benefits
- Employee assistance programme for free, confidential support for your professional or personal life, including financial management and family care
- Special leave such as study leave, sabbatical or public duties
- Three days paid leave a year for volunteering to support your local community
- Season ticket loan scheme to support your commute
- Access to “Work Perks” offering deals, discounts and cash back on your purchases
- Family savings on days out and English Heritage or gym discounts through our partners.
About Low Carbon Contracts Company
The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) exists to help decarbonise the generation of electricity and make it more affordable for the future. Our work is central to the delivery of the Government’s objective to achieve Net Zero target by 2050.
LCCC’s main responsibility, amongst many, is managing the Contracts for Difference (CfDs) scheme which are agreements LCCC has made with renewable generators. These agreements are private law contracts to provide investors with confidence when investing in low carbon technology. CfDs are also designed to help and manage price increases for consumers, when electricity prices are high. See here for more information on how CfDs work: LCCC CfD Video on Vimeo.
LCCC’s other responsibilities include management of money flows across energy suppliers to fund the CfD portfolio, settlement of the capacity market and develop new schemes. Find out more about all that we do by visiting our main page.
Want to know what’s important to us and what’s expected? See here: Values | Low Carbon Contracts Company Careers (pinpointhq.com).
Please take the time to answer the optional diversity questions
At LCCC, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can be their authentic selves and contribute to our mission of advancing a flexible energy future. Our aim is to be reflective of the environments where we operate and truly benefit from a rich tapestry of backgrounds and experiences where everyone thrives which of course make us stronger together. Your diversity data is valuable to us, it helps us understand whether we are effectively connecting with underrepresented groups and realising our diversity aims. Please note that your diversity data will remain anonymised to us as it only feeds into high-level reports not connected to the candidates.
Please take the time to answer the optional diversity questions
At LCCC, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can be their authentic selves and contribute to our mission of advancing a flexible energy future. Our aim is to be reflective of the environments where we operate and truly benefit from a rich tapestry of backgrounds and experiences where everyone thrives which of course make us stronger together. Your diversity data is valuable to us, it helps us understand whether we are effectively connecting with underrepresented groups and realising our diversity aims. Please note that your diversity data will remain anonymised to us as it only feeds into high-level reports not connected to the candidates.
