Senior Software Engineer - Future Opportunities (Hiring Immediately) in London

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin.

Our Power and Low Carbon Solutions practice is growing and we will be looking for experienced Platform Software Engineers to join the team. We deal with highly varied modelling, data, and processing - everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenario projections for 50+ years. They need rapid access to data, analytics outputs, and processing through GUIs, APIs and other systems, whilst being given the confidence that everything is compliant, licenced and well-governed.

Our scale and model complexity has now reached a point that to continue to achieve our business vision, we are building a dedicated global Platform team. We will be looking for experienced software engineers to join as core members of this team to help architect, implement and support the tools that will be fundamental to Baringa’s ongoing growth and success. Successful candidates will be given responsibility and freedom from day one, trusted to challenge and be challenged in turn, in an environment that rewards creativity and entrepreneurship as we build the foundations for Baringa’s future.

We will be looking for an experienced software engineer to be a core member of the new Platform team, working closely with the Engineering Lead. Be an integral part of the design, build, and ongoing development of a new data platform, with associated tools and software - this will be almost entirely greenfield opportunities to create a holistic user experience for Baringa staff. You will assist the Engineering Lead in the selection of technologies and approaches to build everything from big data platforms through to browser plugins and shared functional libraries.

Work closely with the Engineering Lead to engage tool developers, energy system modellers, client facing energy experts and users across the business to build a platform and supporting toolchain that fulfils the needs of your Baringa colleagues. Be a driving force in the development, automated testing and deployment of the new platform, utilising best-practices to ensure quality, reliability and monitoring is built-in from inception. Work with the team to build a DevOps pipeline with robust CI and CD practices, with a focus on evolving our processes to improve our team’s engineering experience.

Be an active part of the team’s agile development approach, from refinement through to demonstration and feedback, helping drive the continuous improvement of team processes as we grow and mature. We will be looking for people to join the team who will be committed to designing and building high quality and fit-for-purpose systems, enabling our staff to maximise the creation, utilisation and management of the various models, tools and data frameworks that enable market-leading insights for our clients.

You are passionate about building the ‘right’ solution to problems, and understanding the ‘why’ behind what you’re building to support Baringa’s work in the energy sector. You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language (e.g. Scala, Python, Java, C# etc.) and understand both domain modelling and application programming. You have working knowledge of data management platforms (SQL, NoSQL, Spark/Databricks etc.). You have working knowledge of modern software engineering tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines), cloud technologies (Azure, AWS) and IaC (e.g. React/Angular/Vue/Blazor frontends etc., FastAPI/Spring Boot/Django/.NET backends etc.). You have experience building and working across different architectural approaches, and are confident in justifying your technology and architectural choices. You have experience working with agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum/Kanban), with an understanding of the key principles that underpin its effective use.

We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.