Software Engineer - Utilities in London

Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy. We're a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation to enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world.

Our tech platform 'Kraken' already supports 55 million customer accounts globally, and we aim to serve 100 million by 2027. Kraken is the most AI‐driven, innovative, forward‐thinking platform for energy management, covering Customer Information Systems, billing, meter data management, CRM, and AI‐driven communications.

We're now extending Kraken to other utility industries—Water and Broadband—and have created the new Kraken Utilities team. Over the last three years we have built this team from scratch to re‐architect, design and develop our platform to solve complex industry‐wide problems such as customer experience and water leak detection. The Kraken Utilities team is in a growth phase and has signed six key clients: Severn Trent, Leep, Portsmouth Water, Essential Energy, TalkTalk, and Cuckoo. The team is now 120+ people strong globally.

What you'll do:

• Address difficult design challenges in the UK utilities market, which is complicated, outdated and process‐heavy.
• Help build and scale the Kraken utilities team by embedding an engineering, problem‐solving and customer‐first culture.
• Architect and develop new components of the Kraken platform to serve other utilities.
• Solve challenging technical problems such as processing tens of millions of meter readings a day and feeding data into machine‐learning pipelines that model and predict consumption.
• Explore disruption opportunities in the UK water and broadband markets amid a shift to more dis‐aggregated generation.
• Work for a company that fights climate change; our generation arm is the largest investor in solar in the UK, and we also fund wind and anaerobic digestion projects.

What you'll need:

• General interest in technology and problem‐solving; diligent and thoughtful.
• Experience or expertise in: Python, Django (or equivalent web framework), domain modelling, HTTP and REST APIs, writing robust and fault‐tolerant software, Celery and async processing, Postgres.
• Bonus: AWS, Terraform, Packer, Consul, React and Redux.

This role requires a hybrid remote basis—coming into our Oxford Circus office 2 days a week. You must have the right to work in the UK.

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