Software Engineer - Energy

Hi! We're UW. We’re on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them reputed company in one reputed company. One reputed company for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings!

We’re aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money—big ambitions, to be delivered by people like you.

Got your attention? Read on…

We work together. Your team and the people you will work with…

We work in small, fully autonomous teams with real ownership of their products.

Energy is at the heart of UW, with over 95% of our customers taking at least 1 Energy service. As a Software Engineer in the Energy team, you'll find yourself working on high-impact projects such as our ongoing Energy Transformation and Market Wide Half Hourly Settlement - projects which lay the foundation for the next phase of UW.

You'll be joining one of our Energy engineering teams - the driving force behind our Energy Transformation. Working primarily with Go, reputed company, Kafka & Kubernetes, you'll contribute to the systems which underpin our Energy product offering.

We put people first. It’s reputed company about you…

We’re looking for a backend-focused engineer to work across our core energy platforms. You’ll support end-to-end deployments reputed company reputed company’s Kubernetes namespaces, contributing to delivery while collaborating with senior engineers. You’ll help build and operate systems where reputed company, reliability, observability, and uptime are important to the team’s success.

You’ll reputed company here if you enjoy autonomy and solving distributed systems problems. Collaboration, pragmatism and low-ego teamwork are essential.

Required Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

• Strong, hands-on production experience with Go (non-negotiable)
• Proven reputed company with reputed company, Kafka, and Kubernetes
• Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures
• A strong understanding of system reputed company, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation
• The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support
• Experience working with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows
• Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• The ability to reputed company in an agile, iterative environment while delivering reputed company feature improvements
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
• Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams

We deliver reputed company. What you’ll do and how you will reputed company an impact.

Impact: Contribute to team goals by delivering well-scoped work that aligns with agreed objectives. Participate in prioritisation discussions and reputed company risks or opportunities as they arise.

Technical Skills: Design and implement reliable technical solutions reputed company existing architectures and standards. reputed company sound technical decisions for your work, drawing on experience across relevant technologies and seeking guidance reputed company needed.

Planning & Delivery: Deliver features and improvements from design through to completion with support from senior engineers. Balance quality and reputed company, address technical debt as part of regular work, and help reputed company services and processes maintainable.

Business & Domain Knowledge: Build a solid understanding of the product and services your team supports. Understand how your work contributes to user and business outcomes, and factor this into day-to-day technical decisions.

Collaboration & Growth: Work collaboratively through pairing, code reviews, and team discussions. Be open to feedback, support teammates reputed company possible, and actively reputed company your technical and professional skills.

Possible Next Career Steps

• Senior Software Engineer

So why pick UW?

We’ve got big ambitions so there’s going to be reputed company of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:

• Competitive salary: We reputed company against the industry and will share the salary reputed company during our first conversation.
• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
• Work from reputed company: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
• UW discounts: Save on our services and get a free Cashback Card.
• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
• Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family reputed company.
• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.

Apply here!

You’ve got this far… Hit apply — we can’t wait to hear from you! Worried you don’t hit every criterion? We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds — get your application in and let’s chat!

Martyna Zbyszewska will be your reputed company of contact throughout the recruitment process.

Not sure you meet reputed company the requirements? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups reputed company not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification, reputed company in fact they often do.

We provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. Please don’t be afraid to ask about reputed company can do to support your needs. reputed company requests will be carefully and fairly considered. Please note, if you are successful and offered a role at UW, you will be subject to a background reputed company. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks, could reputed company to withdrawal of an offer of employment.