Flex Trading Python Developer

As a key member of our small Octopus Energy Trading team, you’ll help develop and rapidly implement solutions for trading and dispatching flexible assets like batteries and electric vehicles to meet the global need for energy flexibility.

You’ll be coming in right at the start with the ability to shape the culture and codebase.

We are looking for someone who loves to engage with interesting software and trading problems, with an interest in full-stack development and the passion to build and shape the future within a collaborative, community-based environment.

What you’ll do…

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable & reliable code

• Ensure the best possible performance, reliability and quality of the Octopus Energy Trading platform

• Contribute to development across the entire stack from the front end down to the infrastructure that the platform runs on

• Contribute to the software engineering culture here at Octopus Energy Trading

• Take energy industry data and turn it into tradeable insights helping us ensure everything from electric vehicles to grid scale batteries are charged at the greenest times for the best price

To achieve Net Zero emissions greater grid flexibility is a fundamental necessity to cope with a more variable renewables-based power sector and enable the decarbonisation of heating and transport., * A keen interest in energy systems and the energy transition

• Circa 1-3 years of experience in a similar position

• Production python experience

• Experience developing data pipelines in python

It would also be great if you had experience with…

• Using 3rd party APIs

• Websockets / queues

• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc)

• AWS or similar cloud providers

• SQL

• Javascript

• Web development (especially FastAPI)

• Developing visualisations (especially Plotly)

• Forecasting and/or machine learning