Senior Software Engineer

Our Perks

Values-driven: We are proud of our culture. Drive your own experience

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours - Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
• Technology - Your choice of Mac or Windows

Empowering you to be your most authentic self

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday Day - it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
• Mental Healthcare - Unlimited sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

SO ENERGY - Who we are:

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). We’re not done yet. We are on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The RoleSenior Software Engineer at SO ENERGY

We are looking for Senior Software Engineers to join our high-performance team led by our Director of Technology Muhammad Khan. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys delivering, growing, and mentoring. Our seniors have deep understandings of the SDLC, modern Software Engineering practices, XP, and agile delivery of value to customers. We’re looking for someone who has experience with diverse technologies, can quickly learn and adapt to new ones, can help in technical decisions, genuinely enjoys constructive technical debates, and can influence others to continuously improve.

Our multi-disciplinary and multinational team cover the full stack from Kotlin backend microservices to frontend Vue.js and Typescript.

As a senior engineer you will leverage your domain expertise to maintain code quality as well as help others to learn your domain. Like all engineers you are expected to expand your skills, to become a more rounded full-stack engineer, and contribute to all code bases.

As a team member you will gain a deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle to deliver value to SO Energy customers using agile processes supported by our in-house Data Analytics team.

Technologies:

• "Must":
  
  • Deep on at least one backend JVM language (Kotlin preferred) or frontend JavaScript (frameworks React, Angular, Vue preferred), and proficient in the other; or deep in both backend and different frontend languages.
  • GitHub, Gradle, GCloud, SonarCloud, bash, Regex, PostgreSQL, Json
• "Nice":
  
  • Confluence, Jira, Actionable Agile Analytics, Miro, DataDog

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Designing and implementing capabilities across the entire stack, both frontend (JavaScript, VueJS, HTML, CSS, Typescript) and backend (Kotlin) technologies.
• Championing quality software and practices across the company, and leading small iterative improvements every day.
• Proactively seeking opportunities to improve the system as a whole; simplifying, refactoring and optimising to make development easier for you and your colleagues.
• Collaborating within a cross-functional and cross-disciplinary team (Frontend, Backend, Product, Data, QA) and foster a knowledge-sharing environment while mentoring junior team members.
• Delivering Business Value by driving shared and modern Software Engineering principles throughout the SDLC, including secure coding practices, TDD, BDD, risk-based testing levels and cadences, and cloud deployments in Google Cloud.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of internal tooling and environments, our whole system design, working as a customer of our SRE and DevOps capabilities.

This role will be a great fit if:

• Have deep knowledge on one or more of React, Vue, JavaScript, Java or Kotlin, and experience in frontend, backend, or mobile development.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of system design and software architecture implementation principles. Be adept at applying the right methodologies for each task, adhering to established workflows while actively seeking and advocating for enhancements to our processes.
• Enjoy being agile and collaboratively working with others in an XP, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid.
• Aiming to elevate your career by growing into a leadership position.
• Are passionate about creating quality work, and helping others to do the same, focusing on never needing to be On Call.
• Continuously improving our Monitoring and Alerting, and Self-Restoring capabilities.
• Already have energy supply experience or are willing to learn this domain quickly; Similarly the rapidly changing renewable energy sector.
• Are comfortable communicating within diverse teams and apply their interpersonal skills to facilitate ceremonies and workshops.
• Learning quickly, and applying in feedback cycles, spikes, walking skeletons, evolving our domain design to match and predict environmental changes eg regulatory.
• Are interested in developing your technological expertise including secure code, risk-based testing, and constructive peer or group-based reviews.
• Are willing to commit to our core company values: clear, honest, ambitious, inquisitive, caring, sustainable.