\nKraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group. \n\n\nOur Team \n\n\nKraken is the technology platform behind Octopus Energy! The platform is also offered to utilities in a SaaS model and is based on a modern, cloud-based architecture with continuous deployments that enables high-speed innovation. \n\n\nKraken Utilities \n\n\nWe’re now charging our Kraken platform to power utilities beyond just energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new business area Kraken Utilities. Over the last year we have built this team from scratch to re-architect, design, and develop our Kraken software platform to solve complex industry wide problems within the water and broadband sectors (customer experience, water leak detection software). \n\n\nThe Kraken Utilities team is now 50+ engineers and have already signed 4 clients (Portsmouth Water, Severn Trent, Leep, and Cuckoo Broadband). We are currently in a very exciting growth phase. Together with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across energy retailers to other sectors. \n\n\nAs Head of Engineering for the Water Industry, your main responsibility will be to manage 4~5 sub-teams working on building the water product and implementing Kraken for water utilities. You will manage Engineering leads and work closely with engineering teams as they identify issues and implement creative solutions to address them. You will manage your own project deliverables, contribute to product strategy and help develop and grow our teams. We are particularly excited to hear from people willing to immerse themselves in their area of expertise, from environmental sustainability to engineering excellence, and show strong product ownership. \n\n\nOur Technology \n\n\nAll technology is written and maintained by a global, multi-disciplinary team of around 700 engineers. This includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers. We’re low on process, with a high level of trust given to individuals.\n\n\nMost of our server-side applications are written in Python. The Kraken platform is built using Django and Celery, and makes extensive use of GraphQL and REST APIs.\n\n\nWe use an immutable infrastructure approach to manage our AWS environments. We heavily use EKS, RDS Aurora, AmazonMQ, S3 and EventBridge in our platform architecture. We practise continuous deployment and release new versions of Kraken around 200 times per day.\n\n\nEngineering standards are high. We pair program, thoroughly review and test code before it deploys, and maintain fast, high-value test suites. We have weekly tech talks, a day a month devoted to sharpening our internal tools, upgrading dependencies, paying off technical debt - we call it “spa day” - and we can often be found at tech meet-ups and conferences.\n\n\nMany of our coding conventions are open-source and we maintain a tech blog. Kraken is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills. \n\n\n\nWhat you'll do:\n* Lead and scale the Kraken Utilities water team, overseeing a talented group of over 25 engineers.\n* Embed a great engineering, problem solving and customer-first culture\n* Provide leadership and mentorship to 5~7 engineering leads to build high-performing teams.\n* Ensure that the engineering team ships consistently high quality, reliable, scalable, secure and performant software.\n* Architect new components of the Kraken platform and drive continuous development to meet evolving client needs.\n* Collaborate with client stakeholders to facilitate smooth migration and adoption of our platform as a service (SaaS).\n* Work closely with the existing Kraken team to help build a consistent platform\n* Collaborate closely with the Telco team to ensure consistency \n* Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders (technical and non technical). \n\n\n\nWhat you'll need:\n* Technical depth and breadth to drive the future development of the platform\n* Structured problem solving skills to decompose and solve ambiguous problems \n* Ability to hack a quick prototype and to properly architect a system design (and the ability/pragmatism to decide when to do what)\n* Inspirational leadership style and entrepreneurial energy\n* Past experience in one of the areas like enterprise software, Large scale transaction processing, AI and machine learning software is desirable\n* Scaling up platforms serving a few geographies and 10X millions to multi geography multi entity 100X millions would be ideal\n* Familiarity with key technology components underpinning Kraken’s stack ie python, django, django-REST-framework, AWS, kubernetes, terraform, react and graphQL, is required\n* Experience managing teams of teams (20+ engineers is desired). \n* Stakeholder management experience. \n\n\n\nWhy you'll love it here:\n* Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!\n* Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people \n* Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits\n\n\n\n\n\nThis team will require candidates to work on a hybrid remote basis, coming into our office in Oxford Circus 1-2 days a week. You do also need to be able to work in the UK. \n\n\nWe're very excited to be growing our team. 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.\n\n\nIf this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. \n\n\nStudies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, React, GraphQL, Django and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $112,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLondon, UK

\nImagine yourself here!\n\n\nOpenGov is a mission driven fast-growth, Series D, venture backed startup (includes Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, and Emerson Collective). Our Board of Directors includes iconic Silicon Valley executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO) and Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world).  \n\n\nOpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for local governments and state agencies. We have surpassed 1,600+ governments (and growing fast!) using our products in our mission to power more effective and accountable government.\n\n\nOpenGov is a 2022 Top Workplaces USA award winner and a Forbes 2022 America's Best Startup Employer!\n\n\nAs a Sr React Engineer, you’ll build the best-in-class SaaS solution that enables efficiency, transparency, and accountability within government agencies. You’ll be a key member of our engineering team, delivering new features and improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment using modern computing frameworks to drive our mission to make the world a little better every day by powering our key community functions. We value self-starters with intrinsic motivation, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to communicate ideas effectively to further OpenGov’s culture of accountability, respect, dedication, and fun. We value clean code, principles over dogma, customer collaboration, teamwork, and thought leadership.\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n• Provide leadership at the tactical level with input into strategy and team leadership, and solve significant and unique problems where analysis requires an evaluation of intangibles.\n• Architect, design and develop robust APIs and microservices using NodeJS, Typescript, and ReactJS to serve over 100k daily users across hundreds of customer communities.\n• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle including collaboration with Product, Design, and other customer success stakeholders to shape the system.\n• Deliver iterative improvements with performant code to realize the product vision and roadmap plans.\n• Using an API-first approach, develop REST & GraphQL microservices that communicate with the OpenGov event-driven platform for Data & Reporting services, as well as integrate with customer systems for inbound and outbound data integrations.\n• Participate in the CICD and DevOps automation initiatives to build, test, deploy & operate on industry-leading platforms & tools including AWS Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar, Spinnaker, NewRelic, etc.\n• You will act as a key contributor to continuously improve the way the team collaborates and delivers while elevating the quality and business value of the product, as well as the technical innovation and excellence standards of the team.\n\n\nRequirements and Preferred Experience:\n• 10+ years of professional experience and track record of developing high-quality scalable code using modern computing languages in a self-organized Agile environment\n• 5+ years of professional experience with modern Javascript frameworks e.g ReactJS\n• 5+ years developing backend microservices with NodeJS, Typescript and REST/GraphQL APIs\n• Experience building a heavily utilized at-scale consumer-facing enterprise SaaS software\n• Experience with cloud-native software development and delivery with a clear understanding of the standard architecture patterns and design practices surrounding Cloud services and deployments.\n• Successfully built APIs, architected database models including SQL and NoSQL, and event-driven patterns\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes OpenGov unique\n\n\n» Leadership: CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO. He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and SF and Silicon Valley Business Times' 40 under 40 class of 2018!\n\n\n» Funding: Over $250 million, Series D company, from top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Cox Enterprises, and Emerson Collective.\n\n\n» Board of Directors: Includes iconic executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO), Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world), Katherine August-deWilde (Vice Chair of First Republic Bank), and Amy Pressman (co-founder, former president, and a current board member of Medallia).\n\n\n» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,600+ governments (and counting) using our products and seven acquisitions in the past six years! Click here to read more. \n\n\n» Culture: Winner of Forbes 2022 Best Startup Employers, Winner of 2022 Top Workplaces USA award, 50 Best Workplaces award. Check out our Careers Video!\n\n\n» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (six consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies. \n\n\n» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.\n\n\nCome join us and make a positive social impact!\n\n\n\n\nOpenGov is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, Design, SaaS, GraphQL, DevOps, JavaScript, Cloud, Typescript, Engineer, Backend and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBuenos Aires