Head of Engineering

7 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Octopus Energy Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Head of Engineering to lead our Water Industry team. As a key member of our Engineering leadership team, you will be responsible for managing a team of engineers and driving the development of our water product.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and scale the Water Industry team, overseeing a talented group of engineers.
  • Embed a great engineering culture, focusing on problem-solving and customer-first principles.
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to engineering leads to build high-performing teams.
  • Ensure the engineering team delivers high-quality, reliable, scalable, secure, and performant software.
  • Architect new components of the Kraken platform and drive continuous development to meet evolving client needs.
  • Collaborate with client stakeholders to facilitate smooth migration and adoption of our platform as a service (SaaS).
  • Work closely with the existing Kraken team to help build a consistent platform.
  • Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders (technical and non-technical).
Requirements
  • Technical depth and breadth to drive the future development of the platform.
  • Structured problem-solving skills to decompose and solve ambiguous problems.
  • Ability to hack a quick prototype and to properly architect a system design (and the ability/pragmatism to decide when to do what).
  • Inspirational leadership style and entrepreneurial energy.
  • Past experience in one of the areas like enterprise software, large-scale transaction processing, AI, and machine learning software is desirable.
  • Scaling up platforms serving a few geographies and 10X millions to multi-geography, multi-entity 100X millions would be ideal.
  • Familiarity with key technology components underpinning Kraken's stack (Python, Django, Django-REST-framework, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, React, and GraphQL) is required.
  • Experience managing teams of teams (20+ engineers) is desired.
  • Stakeholder management experience.
About Us

Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture where people learn, decide, and build quicker. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about. We're a company that empowers our people to make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.

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.

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