\nABOUT EARNIN\n\nAs one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. Since our founding, our app has been downloaded over 13M times and we have provided access to over $15 billion in earnings.\n\nWe’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.\n\nPOSITION SUMMARY\n\nWe are on the lookout for a Staff Software Engineer to drive the evolution of our Earnin web application, accelerate innovation across web and mobile platforms, and design a robust full-stack architecture that supports the product’s end-to-end path. Your expertise will be crucial in crafting seamless customer journeys and propelling our vision forward in the financial technology landscape.\n\nThis position can either be remote-based in the US or hybrid in our Palo Alto HQ. The salary range for this role is USD 183,700 - 358,400. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n\nMake a meaningful impact in the lives of our community members.\n\n Drive the design & implementation of new features - break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design and create high quality, clean code. \n\nCollaborate and mentor other senior engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design and architecture reviews.\n\nContribute to defining technical direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.\n\nEstimate and manage team project timelines and risks.\n\nCare passionately about producing high quality, efficient  designs and code.\n\nParticipate in hiring and onboarding for new team members.\n\nLead cross-team engineering initiatives.\n\nConstantly be learning about new technologies and industry standards in data engineering.  \n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n\nBachelor's, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent industry experience.\n\n7+ years of development experience in backend or full stack software development. \n\n* Extensive experience with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and frameworks such as React or Angular. Proficiency in back-end development with Node.js, Python, Java, and associated frameworks.\n\n* Proficiency in GraphQL for efficient data retrieval (API, BFF).\n\n* Ability to design system architecture and implement high-level programming, performance testing, and systems integration for web applications.\n\n* Serve as a core member of an agile team, driving user story analysis, elaboration, and application development.\n\n* Develop innovative solutions that drive the business forward, including data structure completion, architecture design, code review, and performance evaluation.\n\n* Deliver working prototypes and frameworks for delivery teams to build upon, supporting fast iterations within the web application platform.\n\n* Plan and execute the deployment of a client-facing service interface, ensuring it is designed for future scalability and seamless integration with existing systems (IE:GraphQL).\n\n\n\n\nAt EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging. EarnIn does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. EarnIn is an E-Verify participant. \n\nEarnIn does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, GraphQL, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/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\nPalo Alto, California, United States

\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

\nKraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group. \n\n\nOur team\n\n\nAll our technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 600 people globally. Our engineers work in ‘super teams’ which are focused on key areas of our platform as well as other innovative products. This also includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers. \n \nTeams are empowered to choose a way of working that works for them, often opting for a Kanban-like approach. Notion and Asana are then used to specify and manage work; Github, CircleCI and Terraform Enterprise as part of an immutable-infrastructure, continuous delivery pipeline; and Datadog, Sentry and Cloudwatch to measure performance and monitor production. \n\n\nWe’re now charging Kraken to power utilities beyond energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new business Kraken Utilities. We are building an innovation (ML/Data/AI) team from scratch and are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join and help us scale, implement a good culture, and work on some really exciting tech challenges. \n \nYou'll join a small team working on research around how to help prevent water leakage (think domestic water usage trends, leak detection software, smart meter data trends etc). You'll also get the chance to work on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to build things like message generating systems.\n \nSome of our coding conventions are open-source . \n \nKraken is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills.  \n \nOur technology\n\n\nOur Data/ML stack includes: Python, SQL, pandas, Numpy, AWS, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NLP. \n\n\nOn the server-side, we mainly use Python. Most of our websites are powered by Django, Django-REST-framework and GraphQL (Graphene).  \n \nWe use AWS heavily  as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. See, for example, Django, ELB health checks and continuous delivery. \n \nClient-side, we use React, htmx and SASS; our mobile apps are built using native code or React Native.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll do\n* Design, build, and deploy cutting-edge machine learning systems to address complex business challenges\n* Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including product managers, software engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver exceptional ML products\n* Stay at the forefront of technology. Explore and evaluate new technologies to inspire the creation of new ML products and enhance existing ones\n* Conduct A/B experiments in collaboration with other teams, analyse results, and iterate to drive continuous improvement\n* Embrace ambiguity. As we scale, your role will evolve, and you should be comfortable adapting to changing responsibilities and focus areas\n\n\n\nWhat you'll need\n* You have a proven track record with 5+ years of hands-on experience applying machine learning to real-world business challenges within an industry setting\n* A solid foundation in the fundamentals of machine learning is a must. You are proficient in exploratory data analysis, model selection, model pipeline development, and the end-to-end process of model deployment and monitoring\n* Demonstrated expertise in Python, SQL, and common ML, DL and visualisation libraries such as pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, tensorflow/pytorch, matplotlib etc.\n* Experienced in cloud technologies, preferably with AWS\n* Strong communication skills are essential. You can articulate complex technical concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders with clarity\n* Proficient in software engineering fundamentals including version control and CI/CD pipelines\n* Nice to have:\n\n\n* Experience building NLP products\n* Experience using dbt\n\n\n\nWhy else 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\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 React, GraphQL, Cloud, Mobile, Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $57,500 — $110,000/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\nLondon, UK